French Channels Warn Against Further Criminalisation of Colonialism

The official position on France’s colonial past in Algeria is marked by considerable confusion, embodied by the positions issued by French institutions, such as the Media Regulatory Authority (CSA), which demolished everything Macron had built in the file of memory, in a moment of madness in escaping forward because the matter concerned Algeria.

About two and a half months after the bold and unprecedented statements made by French journalist and history researcher Jean-Michel Aphatie, in which he likened France’s colonial crimes in Algeria to Nazi crimes, the French Media Regulatory Authority (CSA) issued a statement expressing its rejection of these statements and warning French channels and radio stations against broadcasting these descriptions in what appears as a severe blow to the freedom of expression that Paris claims to uphold.

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