Former Advisor to former French President, Abderrahmane Dahmane to Echorouk: “Sarkozy is a Chameleon…an agent of Israel and a fascist hater of Islam”

The former advisor to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, namely Abderrahmane Dahmane, has brought out in an exclusive interview with “Echorouk” aspects of the personality of Sarkozy branding him as a “versatile chameleon, a fascist hater of Islam and an agent of lsrael”, and pointed to “the causes and motives of the prejudice the latter leveled earlier this week against Algeria from neighbouring Tunisia, while revealing that Sarkozy plans to visit Algeria next December, and suggested that such a visit must be foiled on all accounts.

You worked in the recent past with Sarkozy at the UMP party and at the French Presidency, what do you have say about that?

Sarkozy could be described as a chameleon with a  changing temperament and attitude, he does not settle on an opinion or position, he is a profiteering person and seeks to further his own vested interests, wherever his interests are, he is there to jump on the opportunity to garner something from you and he doesn’t waver to “sell” his closest friends to their opponents without any pangs of conscience.

Before discovering Sarkozy’s ugly attributes, I had worked with him as a Special Adviser for Muslim Affairs, and I was later greatly deceived by his versatile posture and warped decisions as well as his shady dealings regarding a number of outstanding issues notably concerning the welfare and rights of the Muslim community members in France as he surrounded himself at that time with a bunch of xenophobic figures hostile to the lofty religion of Islam.

In your opinion, what motivated Sarkozy’s recent remarks hostile to Algeria?

You must remember that it’s Sarkozy when he was still President who targeted Libya and Kadhafi in 2011, after taking away millions of dollars from Libyan leader, Gaddafi, and he was saying at that time that it would be  Algeria’s turn to witness chaos and turmoil, and he replicated this time from Tunisia with his provocative and offensive statements against Algeria, which also aimed at creating a “rift” in the exemplary relations of close cooperation and true brotherhood between Tunisia and Algeria.

In the face of the sordid schemings hatched by Sarkozy, who is reportedly planning to visit Algeria next December, we shouldn’t remain idle and take the necessary steps and strive to foil such a visit.

There’s has been so far no official comment in Algeria on the low-down remarks by Sarkozy, and Algeria believes that the national civil society and political parties will take it over?

I reckon that it’s wrong not to issue an official statement from the Algerian Foreign affairs ministry and bank only on the replies from Parties and associations, because Sarkozy is not a layman, he is a former President and leader of a major party in France, we must respond to him in an official capacity, and to those quarters who hosted him in Tunisia, and I mean precisely Moncef Marzouk who was a Communist and became a rightist being as choppy as Sarkozy, and I think Algeria must act with the principle of reciprocity.