“The flow of deceptive dispatches and the disinformation disseminated by this agency for subversive purposes, as well as its relentless efforts to tarnish Algeria’s image and damage its reputation, are all proofs that reflect its orientation”
The Algerian President’s adviser, Abdelmadjid Chikhi, reacted strongly to French President Emmanuel Macron’s statements about Algeria.
Chikhi spoke at the conference held at the Council of the Nation, the upper house of the Algerian Assembly, on the occasion of the 67th anniversary of the outbreak of the Revolution of November 1, 1954.
“France is asserting these days that we are not a nation. It is as if we are bubbles of water suddenly appearing on the earth” rebelled Chikhi.
The President of the Council of Nation, Salah Goudjil, for his part, indicated that France wanted to destroy the Algerian people and replace them with a European people. “The aim of this colonial plan was to invade Algeria. The demographic growth of the Algerian population proves the existence of this plan” estimated Goudjil.
Meanwhile, Algeria has called on Agence France-Presse (AFP) to immediately end its “campaign of hateful hostility” against the country, threatening not to renew its accreditation and to ban him from practicing in Algeria.
In a statement, the Algerian Ministry of Communication affirmed that AFP has proven its relentlessness against Algeria by “depriving itself of credibility, objectivity and deontological ethics of the profession”.
The Agency had published Tuesday a report on irregular migration from Algeria to Spain, under the title “From Algeria to Spain, the” harraga “(migrants) ready to die at sea so as not to stay in the country”.
“The flow of deceptive dispatches and the disinformation disseminated by this agency for subversive purposes, as well as its incessant efforts to tarnish Algeria’s image and damage its reputation, are all proofs which reflect its dubious and abject orientation” a stressed the ministry.
The ministry firmly demanded from AFP “an immediate end to its hostile and odious campaign against Algeria on pain of non-renewal of accreditation and its ban on practicing in Algeria, in any form whatsoever”.
In response to the words of French President Emmanuel Macron published in the newspaper Le Monde on October 2, according to which Algeria has built its colonial history on hatred of France, the Algerian government announced on Sunday, October 3 that it had closed its airspace to French military planes.
“Macron’s words are an unacceptable insult to the memory of the 5,630,000 martyrs who sacrificed themselves in valiant resistance to French colonialism (between 1830 and 1962)” the Algerian presidency indicated in a statement.
