nvited to speak at the seventieth anniversary of CRIF, Francois Hollande has joked about the fact that his Interior Minister Manuel Valls had returned "safe and sound" of Algeria. South of the Mediterranean, this joke does anyone laugh, social networks atop the State through the media.
François Hollande is known for its short sentences and flashes of humor. But this time, one of his "jokes" did not make everyone laugh, especially in Algeria. Monday, 16 December, the French president was invited to the 70th anniversary of the Council representations of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF ). Before beginning his speech, he welcomed Christiane Taubira, custody of Sceaux, "return to Guyana." He then addressed Manuel Valls, Interior Minister, who returned him to Algeria where he was attending an official visit of Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. François Hollande then states that the Minister has just returned from Algeria "safe and sound". He added: "This is already a lot."
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The laughter in the room were not shared by the Algerians, far from it. Saturday, the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ramtane Lamamra, said that this joke of President Hollande safety in Algeria was a "regrettable incident."
"A bad joke"
"It is clear that this is a loss compared to the spirit that envelops our relationship and the reality of what the French delegations, and even others can find the security situation in Algeria" , said the head of Algerian diplomacy during a press conference in Algiers on 21 December. "We ended the year 2012 on the resounding success of the State of François Hollande visit to Algeria. Year 2013 is not over yet, we do not want to end on a bad note, and we therefore hope that we can find in the days that separate us from the end of a way to turn at this unfortunate "incident.
Several media southern Mediterranean have not failed to target the dubious sentence of the French head of state.Saturday, this was the case of Arabic newspapers
El-Khabar ,
Echorouk and
Ennahar . As for the French-language daily
El Watan , one of its columnists evoked "a bad joke", which refers "to the people of his condition colonized wild civilize, native of the Republic, devoid of both cerebral cortex of humor. " On social networks like Twitter and Facebook, the reactions of Algerians have not dragged either. The majority of all indignant that François Hollande could make such statements.
Finally, the President of the National Consultative Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (CNCPPDH governmental organization), Farouk Ksentini he called François Hollande to apologize for his remarks "provocateurs against the "Algerians"