Parties and organizations condemn the disinformation campaigns launched by the French media against Algeria – New Algeria

Today, Saturday, several political parties and organizations condemned the hostile campaigns launched by French media against Algeria and the blatant misinformation method it is adopting against a sovereign and independent country, through desperate attempts to target its institutions and distort its symbols.

According to what was reported by the Algerian News Agency, the National Liberation Front party expressed, in a statement, its “absolute condemnation and strong denunciation of the blatant and systematic hostile campaigns that the French public media continues to launch against Algeria,” which is considered “blatantly aggressive behavior that can no longer be interpreted or justified.” This position clearly reveals “its involvement in a dirty propaganda war that adopts the theses of the extreme right.”

He added that what is broadcast on France Television regarding Algeria “is no longer media, but has become a tool for misinformation, incitement, distortion, deliberate falsification of facts, passing on blatant lies, and direct targeting of Algeria’s sovereignty and institutions,” which represents “a dangerous decline that exposes the moral and professional bankruptcy of this media and places it in the category of outright hostility to an independent and sovereign country.”

After pointing out that the reason behind these targeted media practices is that some French circles “have not yet digested the fact that Algeria today is a state with an independent sovereign decision that does not accept guardianship or dictates, especially after the bold decisions taken by the Algerian state under the leadership of the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune,” the party held French official institutions responsible for this “dangerous slide,” stressing that “attempts at distortion and media blackmail will not harm Algeria, which will not bow to pressure, and will not compromise on “Her sovereignty.”

For its part, the National Democratic Rally expressed its “surprise and dissatisfaction” with what was broadcast by the French public channel, which is nothing more than “a crude exercise in the field of political distortion and a hostile speech that transcends time and facts.”

He mentioned that this media attack coincided with the National Assembly’s approval of the law criminalizing French colonialism in Algeria, which exposes “a desperate attempt to reproduce a discourse that has been outdone by reality, and whose authors are left with nothing but regurgitating hatred and packaging it in news formats.”

In light of this, the National Democratic Rally renewed its reminder that Algeria “does not need certificates of good conduct,” highlighting that relations between countries “are built on mutual respect and equality, not on settling deferred scores.”

In turn, the National Construction Movement condemned the French media’s targeting of Algeria and its symbols through media content that “descended, in its essence, to the deliberate distortion of Algeria’s image, by reproducing old colonial narratives through newsrooms that still look at Algeria with a guardian eye, in a way that violates even the legal controls of the French media itself.”

She considered that this “unprofessional” media work comes as part of “desperate attempts to put pressure on the Algerian state, by targeting its institutions, distorting its agencies and symbols, and sowing doubt and suspicion in its sovereign choices,” at a time when “Algeria has proven its ability to manage its internal and external affairs, according to the logic of an independent state that does not accept dictates and does not engage in blackmail maneuvers, whatever their source.”

From this standpoint, the movement affirmed its rejection of this “dangerous slide,” stressing the need for the French authorities to review this hostile media approach, which “does not serve the stability of bilateral relations and is not consistent with the official discourses announced about partnership and cooperation.”

For its part, the National Struggle Front considered that what was recently shown on French channels falls within “the practices that attempt to redraw the image of Algeria according to the logic of guardianship that history has pronounced,” at a time when “Algeria today exercises its complete sovereignty and makes its choices according to its interests, not according to what it is intended to be in the imagination of the newsrooms.”

In the same vein, the Dynamic Movement of Algerians in France (MODAF) registered its “deep dissatisfaction” with the “biased French media coverage targeting Algerians,” and condemned “the deliberate distortion of the reputation of French elected officials of Algerian origin and the incitement against French-Algerians instead of recognizing the Algerian community as an important element and a natural bridge for coexistence and Franco-Algerian relations.”

In this regard, she also expressed her strong rejection of this “biased” media coverage, stressing that “Algerian identity is not a threat and defending Algeria against smear campaigns is a legitimate right.”

For its part, the National Organization of Algerian Journalists expressed its condemnation in the strongest terms of what the French media broadcast on a television program, “which was in reality nothing but an act of propaganda and incitement targeting Algeria, the state and its people,” calling on the various national media outlets to “confront all media campaigns that affect state institutions and symbols of the republic.”