Emmanuel Macron's trip to Algeria: "There are pains on both sides, but we have to turn the page"

For a long time, Mustafa, former commander of the French Navy, made the link between the two shores of the Mediterranean.

In memory of the time when he led passenger ships from Algiers to Sète or Marseille, he states in a calm voice: “France without Algeria, there is a minus.

And Algeria without France, there is also a minus.

Sitting on a corner of the sidewalk on rue Belouizdad, the former rue de Lyon, where Albert Camus lived, the pensioner modestly evokes the dirty war he experienced as a child.

And with a certain fatalism the current tensions.

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