Algeria: "Memorial reconciliation does not depend on the proclamation of regrets"

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Paul Thibaud is the former director of the journal

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We often recall the declaration of Macron-candidate for Algiers: colonization is a

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and it is certainly not the basis of his thought, but it characterizes his way: not to undertake a diagnosis of the situation but to operate a movement, to seek a new angle.

This is called repentance, but repentance is not the goal, the goal would rather be a setting in motion, a revival, the horizon of which would be memorial reconciliation if, opposite, there was an analogous desire for displacement, to which one sees no sign from the Algerian side.

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Unilateral repentance is possible if the stake of the divergence has become relatively indifferent, shrouded in oblivion.

So it is now with the fate of the harkis, foreclosed event, for the Algerians as for the French.

Under these conditions, our president was able to repent by

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