French Far-Right Targets Algerian Retirees Once Again
When French politicians obsessed with anti-Algeria from the far right find nothing to focus on, they always return to target the pensions of Algerians who spent their lives in French factories and workshops, begrudging them the retirement amounts they receive, which at best do not exceed 1,000 euros, far less than what their French counterparts receive.
This fabricated issue was the focus of a written question submitted by MP Aurélien Duremble of the French far-right National Rally party, formerly known as the National Front, which was founded in the early 1970s by Jean-Marie Le Pen, a prominent figure in the terrorist Organisation of the Secret Army (O.A.S.).
The member of the lower house of the French parliament seeks to “find out the urgent measures the government intends to take to put an end to what he describes as “the blatant misappropriation of public funds (pensions), and whether it plans to introduce a systematic biometric monitoring of the existence of the beneficiaries abroad.”
What’s interesting is that the far-right MP is calling for the suspension of pension payments based on mere suspicion and is questioning the seriousness of the control mechanisms in place in this regard.
The written question submitted on Tuesday, June 10, read: “MP Aurélien Dutremble alerts the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, responsible for public accounts, about the persistence of fraud involving French pensions paid abroad, particularly in Algeria and more specifically concerning pensions unduly paid to deceased persons whose death has not been declared”. The far-right MP’s question remarkably focused exclusively on Algerian retirees.
The far-right MP added that “according to figures from the Court of Auditors published on May 26, 2025, this fraud would represent between 40 and 80 million euros in annual losses for public finances, in a context where the National Old Age Insurance Fund pays out more than 1.1 billion euros in pensions in Algeria. Audits carried out on documents revealed a rate of undeclared deaths ranging from 2 to 5%, depending on the samples analysed”.
MP Aurélien Dutremble belongs to the far-right National Rally party, which has historically targeted Algeria and its interests. It also disagrees with Algerian positions on sensitive issues, such as the Palestinian cause and the Western Sahara issue, considering it one of the political lobbies working for the Moroccan regime.
According to the text of the written question, found on the National Assembly’s website, the MP also claims that “these figures confirm the existence of a massive, organised phenomenon, which in any case is significantly higher than in other foreign countries benefiting from pension payments under the general system”.
The MP went too far in directly targeting Algerian retirees when he questioned the current control mechanisms, which rely largely on life certificates provided by beneficiaries. He said that “they are largely inadequate and subject to manipulation,” he claimed.
At the same time, he called french authorities to force Algerian retirees to regularly submit “accurate supporting documents” like those provided by their French counterparts, so that retirement pensions are not disbursed abroad without careful verification of the beneficiaries’ financial distress, according to the MP, who tried to inflate the issue and give it a hysterical dimension, as is the habit of the far-right MPs.
