A prominent French journalist announced on Sunday that he was moving beyond his role as an expert analyst for broadcaster RTL after comparing French works during the colonial rule in Algeria for the Second World War massacre by Nazi forces in France.
An veteran reporter and broadcaster, Jean-Michel-fetish, stressed that when he did not return to RTL, he was fully standing with his comments at the radio station at the end of February, which equaled the atrocities committed in France in France in France with Nazi Germany in France.
“I won’t return to RTL. This is my decision,” the journalist wrote on X, when he was suspended from the air for a week by the radio station.
On 25 February, he said on Air: “Every year in France, we remember what happened in the genocide-Oredor-Glain of an entire village. But we are hundreds of these committed in Algeria. Do we know about it?”
He was referring to the village of Orador-sur-Glene, where a SS unit was returning to the front in Normandy, massacre of 642 residents on 10 June 1944. The village was never rebuilt, leaving a chilling memorial for future generations.
Langar challenged whether “we (French) behave like Nazis”, Aphatiy replied: “Nazis behaved like us”.
On X, he admitted that his comments had created a “debate”, but said that it was very important to understand the whole story on the presence of 1830–1962 in Algeria, he said that he was “frightened” read in history books.
After the channel is suspended for a week, it means “if I come back to RTL, I accept it and accept it to make a mistake. This is a line that cannot be overcome”.
His comments inspired an audio-visual regulator RCom to a hurry of complaints, which has opened an investigation.
France’s conduct in Algeria during the 1954–1962 war was due to freedom and has often been the subject of tragic debate in both countries in the last decades.
Historians from both sides have documented several violations over the years, including arbitrary killings and detention by French forces and history still burns the French-Algerian relations to date.
In France, far-flung, the Algeria war legended Jean-Mary Le Pen in France has defended French policies in the years that co-established the National Front (FN) party and died earlier this year, attracted a lot of support from the French settlers who had to return after independence.
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