Authoritarian regimes often find it difficult to understand that the media in democratic countries are independent of political power, of which they are not the spokespersons. This "oversight" is at the origin of a new diplomatic heatstroke between France and Algeria, which on Wednesday recalled its ambassador " immediately " for consultation.
The reason? The broadcast on Tuesday of two television documentaries - Algeria my love and Algeria: the promises of dawn evoking, on France 5 and LCP, the anti-regime protest movement Hirak which, since the beginning of 2019, has been asking the end of the " system ". In a press release, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounces what it considers " attacks against the Algerian people and their institutions, including the army ". " This activism where enmity quarrels with resentment " can we also read, " reveals the malicious and lasting intentions of certain circles who do not wish the advent of peaceful relations between Algeria
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