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Algiers will not take "the first step" to ease tensions with Macron

2021-11-06T09:31:00.889Z


Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune warns on Saturday that he will not take "the first step" to try to calm the tensions caused by ...


Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune warns on Saturday that he will not take "the first step" to try to calm the tensions caused by Emmanuel Macron's critical remarks on the Algerian "nation".

“I have no regrets. Macron has reopened an old conflict in a completely useless way

,

denounces the Algerian leader in an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel.

“If (far-right polemicist Eric) Zemmour says something like that, whatever, nobody's paying attention. But when a head of state declares that Algeria was not a separate nation, it is very serious,

”he criticizes.

Under these conditions,

"I will not be the one who will take the first step",

warns the Algerian head of state.

"Otherwise I will lose all the Algerians, it is not about me, but about a national problem".

"No Algerian would accept that I contact those who insulted us

", explains Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

"Memorial annuity"

Emmanuel Macron sparked the wrath of Algiers after comments reported on October 2 by the daily Le Monde accusing the Algerian “politico-military” system of maintaining a “memorial rent” by serving his people an “official history” which “ is not based on truths ”. According to Le Monde, the French president also affirmed that

“the construction of Algeria as a nation is a phenomenon to watch. Was there an Algerian nation before French colonization? That is the question (...) ”.

"We do not touch the history of a people, and we do not insult the Algerians"

, deplores the Algerian president.

For him,

"what came out was the old hatred of colonial masters, and I know Macron is far from thinking that way."

"

Why did he say that?"

I think it was for strategic electoral reasons

, ”said the Algerian president.

"It's the same speech that the far-right journalist Eric Zemmour has been using for a long time: Algeria was not a nation, it was France which made it a nation,

" he argues.

According to Abdelmadjid Tebboune,

"with this declaration, Macron sided with those who justify colonization".

Is there a prospect of an outcome with France?

asks the Spiegel.

"No, if the French want to go to Mali or Niger now, they will just have to fly nine hours instead of four"

, retorts Abdelmadjid Tebboune, assuring however that an "exception" would be made for "the rescue of injured people ".

“But for everything else, we are no longer obliged to cooperate with each other, it may be over now,”

he warns, accusing Emmanuel Macron of having

“undermined the dignity of Algerians”.

Source: lefigaro

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