The Franco-German channel Arte has programmed, for this Thursday evening, season 1 of a series in 4 episodes, entitled ” Confidential Algiers ” which is a fiction which ” is based on an arms sales contract between Algeria and Germany which is going badly.
“The action takes place in 2016. Many actors intrigue and tear each other apart: soldiers, politicians, spies, lobbyists, and political opponents “, according to the presentation made by RFI (Radio France International) who describes this series as a “ geopolitical thriller ”.
“Two German nationals are being held by terrorists somewhere in Algeria,” a female voice announces in the film’s trailer. On the social network Twitter, several criticisms have been made, in particular on the scenario. ” Another production on Algeria filled with fantasy and clichés”, launches an Algerian Internet user. And another to resume: “ Stereotypes and shortcuts are the very essences of French fiction”.
“Who kills who?
But it was the official APS agency that fired violently on this series. She attacked the French media, the series, and its designers, accusing them of having the “ objective of bringing up to date the thesis of” who is killing who? ” ” and to want a ” return of incredible chaos ” in Algeria.
“ The fiction, which is not one, produced by the Franco-German channel ARTE, on the black decade and which aims to bring up to date the thesis of “who is killing who? “confirms once again that these media are not despairing of the return of an incredible chaos in Algeria “, estimated the author of the article of the official Algerian agency, adding that ” the weight of hatred of Algeria, its people and its legitimate institutions is still strong in French public broadcasting.”
“ Obviously, for the French public audiovisual sector, the file of the black decade is not closed ”, denounces the APS. “The French public media, which had rolled out the red carpet for the dissolved FIS, a party responsible for more than 200,000 deaths, are proving that the thesis of “who is killing who? “is still in full swing in the French public service media”, continues the APS. And invites ” the guardianship of its media which “welcomes with open arms the terrorist movement Rachad, heir to the FIS ” to ” draw the conclusions from the failure of the “Arab Springs” which have truly turned into chaos and genocide in Syria and Libya.
The author of the article is addressed to the producers of the series. “ Isn’t it time for those who decided on the production of this turnip, to re-establish the truth about this still traumatic memory among Algerians? Starting by banishing the idea conveyed for years that Rachad and his progenitor the FIS are revolutionary movements, another thesis widely maintained in this production of the French public media”
The journalist believes that the audiovisual of the French public service “which supports a terrorist organization in Algeria, is not on the same wavelength as official France engaged in a war against Islamist terrorism in the Sahel”
“There is a clear desire to try to create the conditions for chaos in Algeria that the Algerians have no desire to relive, nor to plunge into it. They value the stability of their homeland, their security provided by their valiant People’s National Army, and their freedom guaranteed and protected by the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune,” APS concluded.