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Acknowledging Assassination Of Martyr Ben M’hidi Is Expected To Be Macron’s Next Step

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Acknowledging Assassination Of Martyr Ben M’hidi Is Expected To Be Macron’s Next Step

• The recent decision of the French President, Emmanuel Macron, to admit the responsibility of the French colonial army in the liquidation of the lawyer and freedom fighter, Ali Boumendjel, is still fueling controversy politically and in the media in France, about a week after the decision was issued, while followers expected that the next step would be recognition of the responsibility of the French state in Liquidation of the Algerian hero martyr Larbi Ben M’hidi.

• Some French figures, including academics, did not digest the decision, including the historian, Jean-Marc Albert, who demanded a similar decision from the Algerian side, in an article published yesterday in the daily “Le Figaro”, known for its proximity to right-wing circles in France.

• According to this historian, “the Algerian authorities do not intend to admit the crimes attributed to the National Liberation Front,” according to his claim, and therefore he believes that “there was no reason for Paris to acknowledge the crime committed against the lawyer of the National Liberation Front, Ali Boumendjel”.

The French historian believes that Emmanuel Macron exaggerated the appeasement towards Algeria by admitting in the name of the French state its responsibility in liquidating the communist freedom fighter and university professor sympathetic to the National Liberation Front, Maurice Audin, and after him the recognition of the responsibility of the French state in the liquidation of the freedom fighter Ali Boumendjel.

On the other hand, he talks about what Algeria can do in this regard, and here he refers to what he believes is the responsibility of the Algerian party in the liquidation and disappearance of some French people as well as members of the so-called “black feet” after Algeria’s accession to independence, and it is the narration that some French historians are haunted notably by the obsession of having lost the senseless dream of “Algeria is French”.

• Jean-Marc Albert links between the French president’s decision and his timing, when he asks about Macron’s goal in stirring up such a debate at this particular time, suggesting two hypotheses for what he did, the first of which is the electoral gains that he could gain from this, or divert the attention of the French public opinion.

This coincides with the debate taking place these days in the salons and media platforms of Paris, about the so-called “university Islamic left”.

The French historian believes that the Algerian authorities were not very enthusiastic about the recognition that Paris made to the family of the French activist supporting the liberation revolution, Maurice Audin, in 2018, which encouraged them to make other concessions (apologizing to the Boumendjel family).

• From the perspective of Jean-Marc Albert, the “concessions” the French president made to the Algerians, driven by the pressure of the anti-colonial movements in the Third World and the press campaigns that accompanied them, as well as the honor of the French Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanain, for the Algerian “martyrs”, and what was included in the report of the historian Benjamin Stora, all this did not lead to the reconciliation of memories, which is the goal that Macron set as an objective of his policy in this regard.

• In the opinion of the French historian, the apology to the family of the martyr Boumendjel is nothing more than a “symbolic” step, because the French Army general Paul Aussaresses had confessed to the crime of the French colonial army in the liquidation of martyr Boumendjel in 2001, and it is now widely expected that the next step for French president Macron would be the recognition of responsibility of the French state in the liquidation of the hero martyr Ben M’hidi, a tragic event that was also recognized by the aforementioned paratrooper general.

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