Marine Le Pen: France and Algeria “Divorced”, Paris Took Care of the Kids

Participation of the French Presidency in the Victory Day Celebrations “cease-fire”, on March 19, uncovered all the hatred and the continued idea of ​​French Algeria among both the French radical or moderate right wing, as hatred flowed against Algeria, especially from the national front and its leader Marine Le Pen.

French far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, wrote two tweets that express great hatred towards Algeria and the continued influence of the French Algeria idea and nostalgia to it, she said in the first tweet that Algeria and France “divorced and France assumed responsibility for the kids”, in reference to the participation of the French presidency in the Victory Day Celebrations “ceasefire”.

Marine Le Pen’s tweets noticed a large number of comments of the French right members, who cheered and welcomed her ideas, which revived the spirit of a French Algeria, as they wrote venomous and resentful words against Algeria and its independence, as they remembered the French dead French as if they were innocent and were attacked in Algeria.

French National Front leader continues assault on the celebrations that immortalize the Victory Day, through publishing a statement on the party’s official website, which contains criticism against François Hollande, who regrets the Harkis and black foot who left Algeria.

Marine Le Pen, added in in the same statement, that Hollande’s participation in the Victory Day Celebrations for March,19, 1962, is a violation of the war veterans, Harkis and black foot who died for France in what she called the Algerian conflict. 

She considered that honouring this history is also a contempt for hundreds of thousands of French citizens who were deported and who lived and are living with tragic memories.

In turn, the former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is also known for his hostile attitudes toward Algeria, published a tweet in which he said: “If we chose March 19 to commemorate the Algerian revolution, we have divided France”, and this after he had previously criticized Holland because of March 19 celebrations, saying that French of Harkis, residents and soldiers were killed after the cease-fire.