Emir Abdelkader Foundation To Sue France Over Colonial Crimes

Algeria Emir Abdelkader National Foundation, headed by his immediate grandson Jaafar al-Jazairi, is preparing to sue France for their crimes and the consequences of their occupation of Algeria in accordance with its domestic laws, in coordination with several European human rights organizations, to support this type of issue.

Echorouk learned from an informed source that the Foundation, based on the text of Article 5 of the Basic Law related to its objectives, is seeking judicial action to demand the old occupation state to compensate for its crimes, including: burning the Civil Status Archive during France’s occupation of Algeria in 1847, when its capital was Mascara, as it deliberately wiped out the identity of tens of thousands of the entire generation of citizens by confiscating and destroying some of these archives, and stealing some others, and waiting until the year 1875 for the establishment of the first civil records to ensure the loss of the natives and manipulating them, in addition to the destruction of the National Islamic Library, which belonged to Emir Abdelkader and that included priceless manuscripts.

The source explained that the most prominent criminal incidents that will be followed by the crime of money laundering, which has been exploited so far and for decades, and brought a lot of money to France through tourists, and also the issue of guns and weapons that are considered spoils of war, and the skulls of Mujahideen in the museum of criminality which France called Musée de l’Homme, and many of the property of the Algerians, which will be announced later in detail as well.

The same source revealed that the value of compensation exceeds 10 billion dollars, will be spent, after the verdict on the case under international supervision, in the construction of hospitals and health care centers in the service of humanitarian projects.

“The lawsuit is based on the recent recognition by the French President Emmanuel Macron that he is ready to restore all the effects that France has plundered from African countries, noting that the laws sue all those who contributed to illegal money laundering, which belonged to human property, at a time when France was exposing the holdings of Algerians before the occupation”, it asserted.

The lawsuit against France, the source adds, will be the first that resembles the lawsuit suit that France filled against the German Nazis because France’s crimes are no less horrific than those of Nazi Germany because it had imposed forced displacement against those who showed disobedience against France in the Emir’s country.