Last Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron received a group of French-Algerians of dual nationalities to discuss the issue of "peoples reconciliation", according to Le Monde newspaper.

The newspaper that participated in the meeting indicated that Macron wanted to address these young people in particular, because they are the descendants of fighters in the "National Liberation Front" or "harkis" who cooperated with the French army during the colonial period, or they are the descendants of European centenarians who returned to France after Algeria's independence.

In response to the intervention of a young man who said that Algerians do not hate France, Macron said: "I am not talking about Algerian society in its depths, but about the military-political system that was built on this rent linked to memory. I see that the Algerian regime is tired and weakened by the movement." .

Macron added: "I personally had a good dialogue with President Tebboune, but I see that he is stuck in a very difficult regime."

Speaking about Paris' recent decision to reduce visas granted to Algerians, Macron stressed that "there will be no impact on students and the business community. We will crack down on people within the regime, who are used to applying for visas easily. It is a way of pressure to say to these leaders that if If they do not cooperate to remove people who are in an irregular and dangerous situation in France, we will not make their lives easy."

Regarding France's historical past in Algeria, Macron indicated that he would like to rewrite Algerian history in both Arabic and Berber: "to expose the falsification of facts carried out by the Turks who are rewriting history."

He added, "I am amazed at Turkey's ability to make people completely forget the role it played in Algeria and the hegemony it exercised, and its promotion of the idea that the French are the only colonialists. This is something that the Algerians believe."

The French president asked, "Was there an Algerian nation before French colonialism? That is the question."

Statement of the Algerian presidency in response to Macron's statements

In response to those statements; The Algerian presidency issued a statement, in which it responded to the statements of French President Emmanuel Macron, affirming its rejection of them and describing them as an unacceptable attack on the millions of martyrs who were killed by France.

The Algerian presidency said in its statement that it "categorically rejects unacceptable interference in its internal affairs, as stated in these statements, which carry an unacceptable attack on the memory of 5,630,000 martyrs, who sacrificed their lives and precious things, in their heroic resistance, against the invasion." French colonialism.

She added that "the crimes of colonial France in Algeria are countless, and respond to the definitions of genocide, against humanity. These crimes, which do not have a statute of limitations, should not be subject to manipulation of facts and interpretations that mitigate their ugliness."

She said, "The tendency of people with nostalgia for French Algeria, and the circles that recognize, with difficulty, the complete independence, which the Algerians achieved, with great struggle, is expressed through futile attempts to hide the atrocities, massacres, burns and destruction of villages by the hundreds, such as the Oradour-sur incident. -Glan and eliminate tribes of resistance, which are serial genocides, which conceptual maneuvers and political shortcuts will not succeed in concealing.

She said that "in the face of this unacceptable situation, which resulted from these irresponsible statements, the President of the Republic decided to immediately summon Algeria's ambassador to the French Republic for consultations."