Algeria recalls envoy to France : Macron has upset them
 

From a Debate
on TRTworldHD.

They said Macron is being nasty
to get the Le Pen voters to his side.



[‘Crimes of colonial France’
The immediate recall of Algeria’s ambassador
from France for “consultations”
was announced on Saturday in
a statement from the Algerian presidency.
The moves also come amid tension over
a French decision to sharply reduce the
number of visas it grants to
citizens of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.

“Following remarks that have not been
denied, which several French sources
have attributed by name to [Macron],
Algeria expresses its categorical
rejection of the inadmissible interference
in its internal affairs,” the statement said,
adding the French comments were
“an intolerable affront” to Algerians
who died fighting French colonialism.

“The crimes of colonial France in Algeria
are innumerable and fit the strictest
definitions of genocide,” it said.

French daily Le Monde reported that
Macron made critical remarks about Algeria
during a meeting on Thursday with
French Algerian descendants of the
Harkis, Algerians who fought on the French side
during Algeria’s war of independence.

According to Le Monde, Macron said Algeria
was ruled by a “political-military system” and
described the country’s “official history” as
having been “totally re-written” to something
“not based on truths” but “on a discourse of hatred
towards France”.]


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/...or-from-france


Also
[Paris massacre: 60 years on, France must face its colonial past
For years, the official death toll of the 1961 massacre was only three.
Nowadays, historians agree that at least 48 people
were killed by French police on that night,
although many believe the death toll
was well over 100.]


https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2...-colonial-past