President Macron’s Party Targets Algeria Over Situation Of Christians

The French Republican Party asked French President Emmanuel Macron to allow questioning in Parliament of the French foreign minister, as a clear bias against Algeria regarding the supposed disquieting situation of Christians in the country.
The French requests were submitted in writing to President Macron by Martin Wunner, representative of the French National Assembly of the Republican Party, on 29 May.
The MP said he’d warned the French foreign affairs minister about the status of Catholic and Protestant Christians in Algeria, which he said “is deteriorating day by day”.
The deputy strove to present a bleak picture by announcing that the arrests of Christians in Algeria have doubled since last November with on focus the closing of several Churches there, adding that there are special committees composed of the Health Inspectorate, security agents and religious services in charge of overseeing the “clampdown” situation, as he put it.
The allegations of the French deputy reached the extent of saying that the wandering of Christians in Algeria in possession of the Bible could lead them to prison, arguing that this dire situation is worrying for other Western countries like Germany, which had already warned against this contingency in 2008, through a statement by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
According to the French parliamentarian’s allegations, “Christians in Algeria are convicted for their personal convictions and beliefs”.
This glaring French bias coincided with the issuing of the US State Department’s report on religious freedom in the world, which stated that the Protestant Church in Algeria suffers from restrictions and lack of licenses for its free activity while pointing to the recent closure of a Church in the area of Ain Turk in Oran province (western Algeria).
The same report also defended Algerian Jews, who number no more than 200 in the country and accused the daily newspaper Echorouk of “anti-Semitism” for publishing cartoons and articles harmful to Jews, according to the US report.