Abdelhamid Brahimi: “French Army infiltrated Khaled Nezzar into the ranks of the National Liberation Army”

In an interview granted to “Echorouk”, former Algerian Prime Minister during the late Chadli Bendjedid presidential era, Abdelhamid Brahimi, lashed out at the “DAF” (Deserters from the French Army) stating that they had deserted on the orders of the French army with the aim of infiltrating into the Algerian November Revolution.

According to him, there were 14 officers, including Khaled Nezzar himself, who had joined the ranks of the National Liberation Army (NLA) to become the future agents of a fifth column in anticipation of the inevitable independence of Algeria.

“As evidence of that, at the onset of Algeria’s independence, they placed their friends in key positions in the embassies, the wilayas or provinces and state institutions to tighten their control over the country”, Abdelhamid Brahimi emphasized.

In addition, he said he was happy to return to the homeland after a long absence of nearly 25 years, an exile which had alienated him from the country where he was born, where he grew up and had contributed to its development.

He further affirmed that he would put his experience of University teaching abroad at the service of Algeria, which has great potentialities and which is able to overcome all challenges and its current economic constraints, stressing that the country would doubtless emerge stronger through all these transient trials.

Furthermore, Abdelhamid Brahimi delved into a long diatribe against supporters of the commonly-called “Hizb França” (Party of France) specifying that if we as nationalists, we head towards “Mecca” to pray, but they on the opposite, do it towards the “Eiffel Tower”, that is to say France, to whom they are alienated body and soul, as he put it.

Mr Brahimi also noted that he had warned Colonel Houari Boumediene at the time of the Borders’ Army in Tunisia, against these 14 “DAF” officers as confessed by late Slimane Hoffman himself, as they had been infiltrated into the NLA by France but Boumedienne was aware of the danger and opted to use them as so-called “screwdrivers” in favor of the Revolution, but later on after the country’s accession to independence, they insidiously invested all the inner workings of the Algerian state.