Algeria receives “Roger Hanin”, but rejects “Enrico Macias”
Roger Hanin. Photo: copyright
French historian of Algerian origins, Benjamin Stora, said the Jews who left Algeria after independence did not intend to return, but they are dreaming to visit it, whenever they get a chance.
Stora who is a Jewish from Constantine (Eastern Algeria), said the visits and trips to Algeria by French Jews of Algerian origin, is justified by strong relationships with their origins, such as cemeteries, which are part of the memory that strongly exists in both Algiers and Constantine, but he thinks on the other hand, that they do not intend to return.
Statements of the Algerian-French relationships came to comment the French-Jewish actor’s commandments, who is born in Algeria, about burying him in his native country Algeria, as he lived and grew up in Algiers’ Kasba, with his parents Livier and Victorine, who were working for the post services.
Benjamin Stora considered that the commandments of Roger Hanin are very rare, because all the Jews are of Algerian origin, and they were buried in the box of the Jewish community in “Pentin cemetry” in the Parisian suburb.
“Roger Hanin considered France as his exile, but carried Algeria in his heart”.
President Bouteflika gave an order to send a plane to France for the transfer of the body of “Roger Hanin”, who was buried on Friday morning in the Jewish box in the Christian cemetery, that is located in Bouloughine, Western Algiers, at the funeral of the Culture Minister, Nadia Labidi, Algiers governor, Abdelkader Zoukh, and the General Manager for Civil Protection, Moustafa Labiri, and a number of Hanin companions, including the French Jewish actor, Alexander Arcady, and a number of his childhood friends in Algeria.
Son of Constantine (Eastern Algeria), said there are Jews like Roger Hanin who share the love for homeland, where they were born, and who have long wished it will be a “multicultural country, that is close to the Algerian Communist Project, as Maurice Torres (Secretary General of the French Communist Party), wished Algeria will have multiple races and cultures, as he said in an interview by the French News Agency,” Agence France Presse”.