Algiers demands from Paris "total respect for the Algerian state"

A possible return of the Algerian ambassador to France, recalled at the beginning of the month in Algiers after critical remarks by President Emmanuel Macron, is "conditioned on the total respect of the Algerian state" by Paris, declared Sunday the Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

The return of the Algerian ambassador to France “is conditioned on respect for Algeria, total respect for the Algerian state.

We forget that it was once a French colony (...) History must not be falsified, ”Abdelmadjid Tebboune told Algerian media, in his first public statement in reaction to recent remarks by Emmanuel Macron .

Emmanuel Macron plays appeasement

In an article in the daily

 published on Saturday 2 October, which relates an exchange between the French president and the descendants of protagonists of the Algerian war, the French president believes that after its independence in 1962, Algeria became built on "a memorial rent", maintained by "the politico-military system".

According to 

, he also evokes "a completely rewritten official history" which "is not based on truths" but on "a speech which is based on a hatred of France".

Since then, Emmanuel Macron has played appeasement.

"I have the greatest respect for the Algerian people", he declared in particular on France Inter, on October 5.

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