Driencourt’s Intervention to Whitewash the Moroccan Palace’s Image

The Moroccan regime sought help from the former French ambassador to Algeria, Xavier Driencourt, to respond to the French historian and university professor, Pierre Vermeren, who spoke about the existence of a major rift between the political decision-making in the Alaouite Kingdom and the Moroccan people, concerning the relationship with the extreme right in France, which is the opposite of the Algerian harmonious position on this issue between the people and the authority.

The Moroccan newspaper “Le360”, which is run from within the royal palace, lured the retired French diplomat to try to create tension between Algeria and Paris, based on the invitations made by the dean of the Grand Mosque of Paris, Chams-Eddine Hafiz, before the recent legislative elections, to French voters, especially Muslims, as well as immigrant communities, through which he urged them to block the far right, represented by the “National Rally” party currently, and the former “National Front”, which was founded by the criminal in the “Algeria war”, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

The French magazine “L’Express” interviewed the historian and university professor, Pierre Vermeren, last Friday, on the positions of the Maghreb countries and their peoples regarding the recent French legislative elections.

This academic concluded by confirming that there is harmony in the positions of both Algeria and Tunisia, people and state, in rejecting the arrival of the far right to power in France, due to its racism, hatred of immigrants, and absolute support for the crimes of the Zionist entity in the Gaza Strip and Palestinians, while he stressed the existence of a rift between the Moroccan monarchy and its people regarding the position on Le Pen’s party, as the regime supported the victory of the “National Front,” but the Moroccan people rejected this.

Xavier Driencourt, who dreamed of assuming the portfolio of the French Foreign Ministry if the extreme right won, praised Morocco and attacked Algeria in harmony with the questions of the Moroccan journalist, whose concern was to obtain from this retired diplomat statements falling in favour of the Alawite regime, as he said in response to a question: Regarding Algeria’s interference in the French elections, it is “not the first time,” claiming that Algeria interfered in the recent presidential elections in favour of the current president, Emmanuel Macron, at the expense of the far-right leader, her father’s hate heritant, Marine Le Pen.

Speaking about Algerian-French relations, which have often been subjected to many diplomatic shocks due to many outstanding issues, especially France’s colonial past and the immigration issue, Xavier Driencourt said, “France colonized Algeria 132 and yet the French are still unaware of the secrets of Algeria.”

The retired diplomat attributed his country’s failure to understand the Algerian phenomenon to “Algeria is a difficult country. There is a history and a complex colonial past. On the contrary, there is independence, the Harkis and the Pieds noirs, unlike Morocco. It is a strange thing.”

The words of the former French ambassador to Algeria confirm that the contemporary Kingdom of Morocco is merely a French industry created by General Hubert Lyautey, whose Statute stands as proof in the largest Moroccan city, Casablanca, in recognition of the role this man played in protecting the royal family from the Moroccan people. He explained that his country’s relations with Algeria were better during the era of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Regarding French relations with the countries of the Maghreb region, especially with both Algeria and the Moroccan regime, the retired diplomat believes that France, during the era of former President Jacques Chirac, was the only one that was able to establish balanced relations with Algeria and the Alawite regime and thus preserved its interests in the region, while it was unable to realise this goal with the rest of the other presidents, the most recent of which is the current president, Emmanuel Macron, who is considered, in his view, to be inclined in favour of Algeria and at the expense of Rabat, which is considered a traditional ally of France in the Maghreb region.