Conflicts intensify between France, Algeria over Macron’s statements

(MENAFN) Conflicts between France and Algeria have kept increasing after statements by French President Emmanuel Macron on the North African nation’s colonial past.

The French daily Le Monde said in a report that on Thursday, Macron convened with the descendants of Algerians at the Elysee Palace who combated on France’s side in the Algerian war of independence.

Macron noted as cited by the report: “the building of Algeria as a nation is a phenomenon worth watching. Was there an Algerian nation before French colonization? That is the question.”

He further said: “there were previous colonizations. I am fascinated to see Turkey’s ability to make people totally forget the role it played in Algeria and the domination it has exercised, and to explain that we are the only colonizers. It’s great. Algerians believe it.”

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