After Algeria recovered the remains of some of its opponents ... Is France liberated or encircled by the memories of its colonial past?

Thursday episode (7/20/2020) from the program "Scenarios", she asked about the possibility of Paris engaging in the path of settling the thorny file of memory and disposing of its colonial heritage in Algeria, after the Algerian authorities managed to return the remains of 24 symbols of the popular resistance.

Although the Algerians proudly celebrated this step, proudly and popularly, it brought back to their collective memory the crimes of colonial past, and opened the door to old demands for a law to criminalize French colonialism. Will this step encourage the continuation of negotiations with France on the outstanding historical files?

Political science professor Mustafa Sayeg considered that the return of the skulls is a symbolic event of power and public opinion, indicating that the Algerian demands since independence are still pending and complicated on diplomacy and civil society due to the French insistence on not resolving the four files, namely, settling the file of the two constellations, and the separation of the archive file The patriot in France, paying compensation to the victims of nuclear tests in the Algerian desert, and recognizing the crimes she committed during the colonial era.

He accused the "French settler state" of practicing "ISIS thought" during its colonization of Algeria when it was beheading Algerians, hanging them on public squares and then taking them as a spoil of war to its museums.

On the other hand, the academician and a specialist in colonial history Olivi told Kore Ghargremnzin that the archives constitute a major obstacle to his association with a risk that may prove that France committed crimes not only in the colonial period in Algeria, considering that the archive is not related to his return to the Algerian authorities to the extent it is related to rights and freedoms, and that through access To documents he was able to accurately rewrite the history of French colonialism.

As for Mohamed Dhaifallah, a professor at the Institute of Contemporary Tunis History, he said that the French-French file also includes all French colonies.

It should be mentioned that the Minister of Mujahideen, al-Tayyib Zaytouni, had previously mentioned that access to normal relations between the two countries passes through 4 conditions that cannot be waived.