Macron’s statements about Algeria, its rulers, and its history sparked an uproar. What was seen as an attack on the Algerian nation was able to unite power and opposition.
Algeria had reacted officially by recalling its ambassador to Paris. The latter, breaking his silence, did not fail to provoke controversy with his appeal to the Algerian community in France.
Mohamed Antar Daoud, as a reminder, deplored the fact that “Algeria, which has the largest foreign community in France with 18 consulates, cannot constitute a control lever to intervene not only in Algerian politics but (also ) at the level of French policy”.
“I vomit these statements”, declares Lydia Guirous
Lydia Guirous, a French politician and activist in the right-wing UMP party, was particularly irritated by the latest statements by the Algerian ambassador in Paris. As a Frenchwoman of Algerian origin, she considered that the words of the Algerian diplomat are “an assigned residence order” for the Algerian diaspora in France.
The French right-wing activist says she has “had enough of these Algerian leaders who build nothing and do nothing but provocation and instrumentalization of colonial history.” According to her, “the Ambassador’s words are devious and dangerous in a number of ways.”
“I vomit these statements,” she blurted, indicating that it is an “invitation to communitarianism” and to “the betrayal of the interests of France”.
Born in Algeria, Lydia Guirous believes that the ambassador’s words are “a way of assigning the diaspora to an identity residence”. “What’s the next step ? Did she ask herself, “to call” Collaborator “or” Collaborator “those who love France and carry it proudly in their hearts?”.
The RN denounces the “genuflections of Macron”
On the far right side, the words of the Algerian ambassador to France did not go unnoticed. Jordan Bardella, the interim president of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen’s Party, strongly denounced in a Tweet an attempt to interfere in French politics.
According to him, “the Algerian ambassador calls on the Algerian community to leverage to” intervene in French politics”. The politician believes that this is due to the “permanent genuflections of Emmanuel Macron” who made, he adds, “of France a doormat”.
The far-right activist concludes by declaring: “we will make it respected (editor’s note) in the face of this corrupt and arrogant Algerian power”.
