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4th Oct 2021, 12:04
And now Macron has another problem to raise his blood pressure in that Algeria has banned all French military aircraft in its airspace.
From the Times.Algeria bans French planes from airspace after Macron claims it fuels hatred of Francenew
Adam Sage (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/adam-sage), Paris
Monday October 04 2021, 11.20am, The TimesGlobal politics (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/topic/global-politics)https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fe90331cc-24f8-11ec-80e0-b4b33b6f1716.jpg?crop=4894%2C2753%2C0%2C255&resize=1200French fighter jets on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Algeria has banned France’s military planes over accusations that it is rewriting its colonial history
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SaveAlgeria has banned French military planes from its airspace in a deepening dispute with the former colonial power after President Macron accused its ruling class of fuelling “hatred of France”.
In comments that have incensed politicians and commentators in Algiers, Macron also suggested that the country’s leaders had rewritten history to blame all its current woes on Paris and colonisation.
He inflamed the row by claiming that Algerians had been manipulated by Turkey to airbrush from history the role of the Ottoman Empire, which controlled the country from the 16th century to 1830, when it was taken over by the French.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F2492356c-24f9-11ec-80e0-b4b33b6f1716.jpg?crop=4300%2C2867%2C0%2C0&resize=1180
Emmanuel Macron during a meeting last month in memory of the Algerians who fought alongside French colonial forces in Algeria's war
GONZALO FUENTES/ASSOCIATED PRESSHe went on to suggest that far from destroying Algeria, French colonialists had brought its people together to form a nation for the first time.
Macron’s comments have reopened the festering wounds left by a colonial period which ended in 1962, when Algeria gained independence after a war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
In the worst crisis in Franco-Algerian relations for at least 15 years, Algiers recalled its ambassador to Paris and refused entry to its airspace for French military planes involved in fighting Islamist terrorists in the Sahel region and notably in neighbouring Mali (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/youve-abandoned-us-mali-tells-macron-after-turning-to-russia-3rwh5r73n).
Colonel Pascal Ianni, a French army spokesman, said the ban had “slightly impacted” flights bringing supplies to French troops on the ground but “would “not affect” military operations in the Sahel.
The argument appears to have scuppered Macron’s hopes of ending six decades of discord between Paris and Algiers (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/french-guilty-of-inhumanity-in-algeria-l6kwx7cs7).
The tensions have not only limited French influence in north Africa but nourished resentment amongst the two million-strong Algerian community in France, widening racial and religious splits.
In an attempt to appease Algerian animosity, Macron ordered a report this year on colonisation, which called on France to make symbolic gestures including identifying the location of the bodies of Algerian nationalists killed during the independence war .
However, relations soured last month when Paris announced a 50 per cent cut in visas for Algerians and Moroccans in retaliation for both countries’ reluctance to accept the return of their citizens facing expulsion orders from France for entering the country illegally. Macron’s government says that of the 7,731 Algerians served with expulsion orders in the first six months of this year, Algiers has agreed to take back just 0.2 per cent.
The row deepened when Macron met about 20 young people of Algerian origin last week to discuss Franco-Algerian relations.
He told them that Algerian political and diplomatic policy was, “it has to be said, based on hatred of France”.
He also said the country had been misled by “disinformation” and “propaganda” spread by Turkey with the aim of “completely rewriting history”.
“Was there an Algerian nation before colonisation? That is the question,” he said in comments reported by Le Monde. “Me, I’m fascinated by the ability of Turkey to ensure that the role it had in Algeria and the domination it exercised are completely forgotten and that we are [considered to be] the only colonisers”.
In a reference to months of demonstrations against authorities in Algiers denounced by critics as corrupt and incompetent, Macron said that the Algerian regime was “tired” and that President Tebboune, its ruler, was “caught in a very tough system”.
With the Algerian media accusing Macron of insulting the country, the authorities issued a statement saying that his comments represented “an intolerable attack on the memory of the 5.63 million brave martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the heroic resistance to the French colonial invasion as well as in the glorious revolution of national liberation.”
Phone ringing in the distance, Hello hello, is that Boris, can we borrow your C17s again?
From the Times.Algeria bans French planes from airspace after Macron claims it fuels hatred of Francenew
Adam Sage (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/profile/adam-sage), Paris
Monday October 04 2021, 11.20am, The TimesGlobal politics (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/topic/global-politics)https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fe90331cc-24f8-11ec-80e0-b4b33b6f1716.jpg?crop=4894%2C2753%2C0%2C255&resize=1200French fighter jets on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Algeria has banned France’s military planes over accusations that it is rewriting its colonial history
PHILIPPE LOPEZ/GETTY IMAGES
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SaveAlgeria has banned French military planes from its airspace in a deepening dispute with the former colonial power after President Macron accused its ruling class of fuelling “hatred of France”.
In comments that have incensed politicians and commentators in Algiers, Macron also suggested that the country’s leaders had rewritten history to blame all its current woes on Paris and colonisation.
He inflamed the row by claiming that Algerians had been manipulated by Turkey to airbrush from history the role of the Ottoman Empire, which controlled the country from the 16th century to 1830, when it was taken over by the French.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F2492356c-24f9-11ec-80e0-b4b33b6f1716.jpg?crop=4300%2C2867%2C0%2C0&resize=1180
Emmanuel Macron during a meeting last month in memory of the Algerians who fought alongside French colonial forces in Algeria's war
GONZALO FUENTES/ASSOCIATED PRESSHe went on to suggest that far from destroying Algeria, French colonialists had brought its people together to form a nation for the first time.
Macron’s comments have reopened the festering wounds left by a colonial period which ended in 1962, when Algeria gained independence after a war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
In the worst crisis in Franco-Algerian relations for at least 15 years, Algiers recalled its ambassador to Paris and refused entry to its airspace for French military planes involved in fighting Islamist terrorists in the Sahel region and notably in neighbouring Mali (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/youve-abandoned-us-mali-tells-macron-after-turning-to-russia-3rwh5r73n).
Colonel Pascal Ianni, a French army spokesman, said the ban had “slightly impacted” flights bringing supplies to French troops on the ground but “would “not affect” military operations in the Sahel.
The argument appears to have scuppered Macron’s hopes of ending six decades of discord between Paris and Algiers (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/french-guilty-of-inhumanity-in-algeria-l6kwx7cs7).
The tensions have not only limited French influence in north Africa but nourished resentment amongst the two million-strong Algerian community in France, widening racial and religious splits.
In an attempt to appease Algerian animosity, Macron ordered a report this year on colonisation, which called on France to make symbolic gestures including identifying the location of the bodies of Algerian nationalists killed during the independence war .
However, relations soured last month when Paris announced a 50 per cent cut in visas for Algerians and Moroccans in retaliation for both countries’ reluctance to accept the return of their citizens facing expulsion orders from France for entering the country illegally. Macron’s government says that of the 7,731 Algerians served with expulsion orders in the first six months of this year, Algiers has agreed to take back just 0.2 per cent.
The row deepened when Macron met about 20 young people of Algerian origin last week to discuss Franco-Algerian relations.
He told them that Algerian political and diplomatic policy was, “it has to be said, based on hatred of France”.
He also said the country had been misled by “disinformation” and “propaganda” spread by Turkey with the aim of “completely rewriting history”.
“Was there an Algerian nation before colonisation? That is the question,” he said in comments reported by Le Monde. “Me, I’m fascinated by the ability of Turkey to ensure that the role it had in Algeria and the domination it exercised are completely forgotten and that we are [considered to be] the only colonisers”.
In a reference to months of demonstrations against authorities in Algiers denounced by critics as corrupt and incompetent, Macron said that the Algerian regime was “tired” and that President Tebboune, its ruler, was “caught in a very tough system”.
With the Algerian media accusing Macron of insulting the country, the authorities issued a statement saying that his comments represented “an intolerable attack on the memory of the 5.63 million brave martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the heroic resistance to the French colonial invasion as well as in the glorious revolution of national liberation.”
Phone ringing in the distance, Hello hello, is that Boris, can we borrow your C17s again?