“The Franco-Algerian relationship seems to be dictated by the controversies and the agenda of extremists” | EUROtoday

Nou, French of Algerian origin, Franco-Algerian, French loving Algeria, we really feel deep discomfort within the face of speedy deterioration, and to us with out equal, from the connection between France and Algeria, two nations from which we’re from, which bind us and to which we’re deeply hooked up.

We are unhappy, and to be confused, confronted with a scenario the place, on either side, now we have the impression that it’s the extremists, and the controversies they feed, who dictate the agenda and instrumentalize the Franco-Algerian relationship for political functions. As if this relationship, sewn of numerous intertwined threads, was to be lowered to tragic and prison actions, as in Mulhouse [dans le Haut-Rhin, où un Algérien en situation irrégulière est suspecté d’avoir tué un passant au couteau et blessé six autres personnes, le 22 février]which severely hurt your complete nationwide group, together with Franco-Algeria.

There are many goal issues that parasitize the bilateral relationship. Disputes. Malcentres that have to be talked about with frankness, requirement and honesty. There are migration questions. There is the colonial previous of France, the ache it has generated, the silences, generally nonetheless the denial that surrounds them, even when we should greet the essential gestures that the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, addressed to Algeria.

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