This is how France tempted Europeans to live and own property in Algeria

How can you be a pied-noir but not a supporter of “French Algeria”? This is the title of a testimony by a European who was born in Algeria during the French occupation, and left it under duress after independence for fear of a new, unknown situation for this group that monopolized Algeria’s wealth with the support of the colonial army, and left the owners of the house without any possessions.
This is a testimony by a pied-noir named Jean-Louis Migrant, who is from the Ain El Hadid region in the current state of Tiaret, in an interview on the website of the famous French investigative newspaper “Mediapart”, and he tried to convey some of the tragic scenes that the Algerian people were exposed to under the yoke of an unjust and brutal regime, as the former French President, François Hollande, called it.
In this Interview, Jean Louis Migrant stopped at the circumstances of the beginning of the French authorities’ construction of a colonial policy in occupied Algeria since 1830, based on the army’s control over the lands of the Algerians, then transferring them to families that were initially French, before expanding to include many European nationalities, including Germans, Swiss, Italians, Belgians, Portuguese and Spanish.
Jean Louis Migrant says: “At first, the matter was focused on the poor and imprisoned sons of southern France. The French authorities were tempting them with the ownership of vacant lands in Algeria, which in fact were not vacant, because they were forcibly seized by the French occupation army immediately after taking control of them.”
The strange thing is that the parties concerned with distributing the “vacant” lands to the French and other Europeans were bringing in entire families to work on the land they owned for them, then they brought in Algerian families to help these settlers serve the land, which was originally Algerian land and was in the possession of Algerians, before it was forcibly seized from them.
They were deluding the French and Europeans that when they moved to work in Algeria they would become rich, because they would get money and free transportation, and then they would become landowners, and this coincided with the presence of directives from the authorities to change the destination of immigration from the new continent (America) to North Africa for political and religious reasons.
Among the forms of advertisements that were posted to entice the French and Europeans, Jean Louis Migrant revealed an old version, which included among what it included “In order to obtain the privilege of owning land in Algeria, the following must be available: you must be French, head of a family, have knowledge in agricultural activity, have sufficient funds to serve the land that was granted to you, commit to residing for a certain period on the piece of land that was granted to you, it is preferable to be a large family”.
Jean Louis Migrant confirms that these lands granted are those that were taken from the people, and that his father obtained 224 hectares, in addition to forest lands for cutting wood and making charcoal in order to provide for energy needs, which kept these French families (the colons) active.
This centenarian, born in Ain El Hadid in Tiaret, points out that there are centenarians of different European nationalities, Germans, Italians, Belgians, Swiss and Spanish, who obtained thousands of hectares of land that were forcibly taken from the Algerians, for expansionist justifications and long-term political calculations. Among these justifications that were also behind the occupation of Algeria, were the export of the population from France to Algeria and an attempt to influence the demographic character, the search for natural resources and primary resources that France lacked, and the expansion of French influence beyond the southern shores of the Mediterranean basin.