“We want to protect peace in Europe and thus dissuade anyone from attacking us”said French president last week at the European Council on March 20 and 21. After years of delay, during which the Russian threat was underestimated, at least in Western Europe, this awareness can only be praised. Macron wishes to bring defense expenses to 3 or 3.5 % of the country’s GDP, against 2.1 % currently.
But Macron’s posture in the face of the Russian threat would have been more credible if it had not been preceded by naive comments bordering on cowardice towards another hostile regime, closer to France and whose GDP per capita is half less than that of Putin Russia: Algeria.
“Retailleau had not planned that Macron would sabot the position of the government”
For several years, the Algerian government challenged France by refusing to resume its criminals and nationals in an irregular situation. The Algerian regime has thus acted while harassing its most prominent opponents on French soil: one of the targets was the writer Kamel Daoud, winner of the Goncourt 2024 prize, one of the most prestigious literary distinctions in France, a victim of a long defamation campaign orchestrated at the request of Algeria because he reportedly report Algerian and the Islamists, who had almost won the 1991 Algerian legislative elections before their interruption by the army.
Trust “Tebboune, really?
Meanwhile, in Algeria, the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, known for his criticism of Arab dictatorships and Islam, languishes in a cell. Asked about the fate of Boualem Sansal on March 20 in Brussels, Macron said: “I have confidence in President Tebboune and his discernment to know that all of this is not serious and that we are dealing with a great writer who, moreover, is sick. »» Does Macron really think that we can trust the Algerian regime?
The Islamist attack of Mulhouse on February 22, which left one dead and seven wounded, was perpetrated by an Algerian that France had attempted to expel fourteen times, in vain, faced with the refusal of its country of origin to cooperate. This fiasco led the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, to harden his position: “” There would have been no attack in Mulhouse if Algeria had respected the law and its obligations ”he said, pleading for a “Force report” With the Tebboune dictatorship.
But Retailleau had not planned that Macron would sabot the government’s position by excluding any retaliatory measure, especially on migratory issues. “Things are well done when they are done with rigor, but they should not become the object of political games, wherever they are. They must be done with what our countries deserve: a sense of reality and a culture of the result ”had warned Macron since Portugal on February 28.
Algerians are overrepresented in French prisons. They represent 20 % of foreigners imprisoned in France. Like minorities from the Arab-Muslim world, they have more reluctant to French values. Many sociological studies and surveys show, for example, that French Muslims are much more sensitive than the average for misogynist, anti -Semitic and homophobic prejudices, and more inclined to tolerate violence against civilians.
In addition, the descendants of Maghreb immigration persist in endogamy, even in the second generation, unlike the descendants of European immigration, of the former French or Afro-Christian Indochina, who are much more open to relations with the French of strain. However, Algerians benefit from favorable treatment for their residence in France, due to poorly placed colonial guilt. Today they are the most numerous group of immigrants in France.
Hostility towards France
Officially, Macron’s refusal to confront with the Algerian government is motivated by a desire for appeasement: “Millions of French people are born from Algerian parents, are sometimes binational. They have nothing to do with these debates and live in peace, by joining the values of the Republic. (…) They too are entitled to a quiet life “Said the president at a press conference after the Mulhouse attack. But to appease the brutal government of Algeria does not do much to help those who live in exile.
March 3, Le Figaro reported that the entourage of Macron “Fear above all the reactions of the Algerian diaspora in France, which could” do everything to the Capot “, taking up the violent statements published on social networks by influencers faithful to the Algiers regime”. In other words, Macron chooses the capitulation in the face of a diet that feeds his Francophobia to the point of restoring, two years earlier, an anti-French verse in his national anthem, fell into disuse. This resettlement follows a decree of 2023 from Tebboune expanding the circumstances in which the Algerian national anthem must be played in full, including the third verse that says: “O France, the time for reproaches is over, and we closed it as we close a book; O France, here is the day of the settlement of accounts, so prepare to receive our answer! In our revolution ends the time of hollow words; We are determined to live algeria, be witnesses. »»
“” Those who are intransigent in front of the Russian ogre but retreat to enemies from the inside are not credible ”
A recent published in The worldsigned by personalities like the mathematician Cédric Villani and the historian Benjamin Stora, a specialist in Algeria, deplored that the Franco-Algerian diaspora in France never really had a voice in the chapter. “Banlot according to circumstances, to the rhythm of the convolutions of a relationship that has never been simple, she has always sought her place, without really finding it”wrote the authors. Caught between the legitimate requirements of a liberal republic and the maneuvers of a dictatorship incapable of building a viable society in sixty years of independence, they would be torn. It does not come to the minds of the so -called defenders of Algeria that, if this is true, it would dishonor those concerned by validating the concerns of those who fear a population with uncertain loyalty.
But what is the link between Algerian immigration and the Russian threat, beyond the many rapprochements between Algeria and Russia? The presence on its soil of a population more resistant than the average for democratic values compromises the ability of France to defend its vital interests, both indoors and international. Is it necessary to specify that the countries which let themselves be touted with the interior to the point of throwing their captive nationals under the bus are not the best placed to defend a friendly nation against Russian imperialism?
Neither NATO, nor Europe, nor Ukraine has an interest in seeing France, nuclear power and pillar of the Western alliance, drowning in an Islam which would destroy its capacity to defend the liberal principles – of the principles which fade internally – on the international scene. This observation also applies to the United Kingdom. Those who are uncompromising in front of the Russian ogre but retreat to more dangerous interior enemies are not credible. They only replay the ancient scenario of taking the East, taking advantage of the weakening of Byzantium and Persia by their conflicts, to the point of neglecting the fronts that have sealed their loss.
