Algeria, through its embassy in France, has officially filed a complaint with the competent French jurisdiction against Louis Sarkozy following his serious threats and incitement to burn the Algerian diplomatic mission in Paris.
Algeria reacted to the grave threats made by Nicolas Sarkozy's son against its embassy in Paris by filing a complaint against him before a French court yesterday.
Indeed, in an interview with "Le Monde", Louis Sarkozy incited a criminal act. "If I were in charge and Algeria arrested Boualem Sansal, I would burn the embassy, stop all visas, and increase customs tariffs by 150%," stated the son of the former French President, likely thinking that by attacking Algeria, he would succeed in entering politics through the front door.
This was a grave mistake for Sarkozy Jr., who seems destined instead to join his father in the hall of forgotten figures. Louis Sarkozy has already been the subject of a complaint by SOS Racisme, which considered that "such widely disseminated remarks, in the context of diplomatic tensions between France and Algeria, contribute to an unacceptable normalization of calls to violence," calling on the justice system to "examine the legal qualification of these remarks and initiate appropriate proceedings if necessary." He has also been the subject of a complaint from the Union algérienne, an association based in Lyon. The third complaint is the one officially filed by Algeria's diplomatic representation in France.
In fact, Louis Sarkozy's remarks are extremely serious, not only because it is unprecedented for a French politician to call for physical retaliation but also because they were made in a context of severe diplomatic crisis with France. After noting that Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau did not react to seeing such calls for crime on French soil, Algeria decided to file a complaint.
Retailleau, the chief responsible for internal security, so busy treading on the toes of his colleague, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, or playing the whisperer of the Republic when Prime Minister François Bayrou speaks of Algeria, did not deem it necessary to take urgent measures to protect those living in France or to request swift judicial intervention for this grandson of immigrants! Louis Sarkozy launched a call to crime that necessarily requires a legal response commensurate with the foolishness of the person who made it, especially since incitement to violence and hatred is punishable under French law. However, Retailleau only looks where there are Algerian influencers.
