"No Algerian will accept" Tabun rules oit normalizing relations with France at the present time

"No Algerian will accept" Tabun rules out normalizing relations with France at the present time

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune rules out the return to normal relations with France, and says in an interview with the German newspaper Der Spiegel that he is "very upset" with his French counterpart because of his statements about Algeria. 

On Friday, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune ruled out the return to normal relations with France because of what he described as "very dangerous" statements by President Emmanuel Macron.

This came in an interview with the German newspaper Der Spiegel published in its Friday issue.

The newspaper chose the phrase: "If Macron called him, he would not answer why?" Title of introduction to the interview that took place on October 26 at the Presidential Palace in Algiers.

During the interview, the newspaper asked the Algerian president whether relations with France would return to normal soon. He replied, "No," and added, "No Algerian would accept me to resume contacts with those who launched these insults."

President Tebboune said in the interview that he was "very upset" with his French counterpart because of his "very dangerous" statements.

He added, "The history of the peoples should not be compromised, and the Algerians should not be humiliated." In reference to Macron's stabbing in Algeria's history.

On October 2, the French newspaper "Le Monde" quoted Macron's statements in which he accused the ruling elite in Algeria of "feeding a grudge against France", which was met with great condemnation in Algeria and even within France, as they described him as "ignorant of history."

He also challenged the existence of an Algerian nation before the French colonialism entered the country in 1830, and asked, denouncing: "Was there an Algerian nation before French colonialism?"

Macron claimed that "there was colonialism before the French colonization" of Algeria, referring to the period of Ottoman presence between 1514 and 1830.

As a result of these statements, Algeria summoned its ambassador to Paris for consultations and closed its airspace to French military aircraft operating in Mali as part of Operation Barkhane.