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French Interior Minister Shows Personal Enmity Towards Algeria
Mohamed Moslem / English version: Dalila Henache
2025/03/19
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot responded to an invitation to attend an iftar at the Grand Mosque of Paris by Chams-Eddine Hafiz, the mosque’s rector.
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau did not participate in this dinner. This stance confirms that the French minister harbors a racist grudge against Algeria that goes beyond the political and diplomatic disputes plaguing bilateral relations.
The Interior Minister in France is considered the Minister of Religions, overseeing the regulation of this sector. This is the outlet through which the French government has traditionally intervened in managing the Islamic religion. This means that the minister who should have responded to the invitation of the Paris Mosque was Bruno Retailleau, not the Minister of Foreign Affairs, albeit out of courtesy.
This stance by Retailleau reveals his hostility toward Algeria, driven by the ideological underpinnings of the man, who is considered a member of the conservative Christian right and believes in a clash of civilizations rooted in the Crusades, whose primary motivation was to fight Muslims, as is well known.
In an interview with the French radio station Sud Radio on Wednesday morning, March 19, the Republican party’s presidency candidate justified his absence by saying that his refusal to meet the rector of the Paris Mosque stemmed from his conviction that he “only participates in official religious occasions,” while “iftar is not an official event.”
To avoid any misinterpretations that might arise from his refusal to accept the invitation from the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, Retailleau defended what he called “the republican model of the French state, which is laïcité.” However, he added that his attachment to this model did not prevent him, a few weeks ago, from receiving members of the FORIF (forum of Islam in France), the body that regulates the Muslim faith in France. This body was created after the dissolution of the former “French Council of the Muslim Faith” more than two years ago.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot accepted the invitation to break the fast. From the pulpit of the Grand Mosque of Paris, he expressed his country’s “commitment to Algerian-French relations,” echoing the statement of the mosque’s rector, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, who called for a calming approach to the escalating crisis between Algeria and Paris.
Jean-Noël Barrot affirmed that, “France is committed to its relationship with Algeria, with which we are united by complex ties, but unparalleled depth and shared interests.” He pointed out that “the current tensions, which we did not cause and which yesterday (Monday) experienced a new problematic development, are in no one’s interest, neither France nor Algeria,” he added, calling for them to be resolved with “respect”, referring to the escalation that emerged this week when Algeria rejected the provocative list submitted by the French Interior Minister to the Algerian Chargé d’Affaires in Paris.
In the same context, former French Ambassador to Algeria Xavier Driencourt spoke about his country’s government’s failure to manage the crisis with Algeria. In a phone interview with Sud Radio, Driencourt criticized some of the French authorities’ actions, most notably the visit of the French Minister of Culture of Moroccan origin, Rachida Dati, to the occupied Sahrawi territories. He said this visit further fueled the fire and prompted Algerian authorities to act more forcefully, given the sensitivity of the Western Sahara issue.
The diplomat acknowledged that Algeria had taken the initiative over the past months of the crisis with France. This was because the French response did not come until four months after the crisis erupted, specifically in the second half of last November. This occurred after Algerian authorities imprisoned the French writer of Algerian origin, Boualem Sansal, who is currently in prison on serious charges related to espionage and undermining the country’s territorial integrity.
French officials’ statements calling for calm remain unsupported by action. Just one day after the French Foreign Minister emphasized the importance of bilateral relations, French justice authorities refused to extradite one of Algeria’s most wanted individuals, former Minister of Industry Abdeslam Bouchouareb, who was implicated in numerous corruption cases during his tenure as Minister of Industry. During his tenure, the Renault factory was established in Algeria under shameful conditions and with an integration rate that fell far short of the lowest in any country.
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