France-Algeria: Emmanuel Macron Says No to Repentance

In Algiers, French President Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by his Minister of Defense, Sébastien Lecornu, and 89 businessmen and intellectuals including the historian Benjamin Stora, did not escape the quarrel over memories and, for return to its polemical expression, the “memory rent”. 

The tenant of the Elysée who had qualified in 2017, of passage in Algiers, while he was a presidential candidate, the French colonization of “crime against humanity”, has since returned to the red lines defended by the official history of France. “Recognition yes, repentance no”, he will say in substance. “I often hear that, on the question of memory