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Algeria Gate: President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune received today, Tuesday, Johann Wadephul, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the accompanying delegation.

The meeting was attended by Brahim Merad, Minister of State in charge of Inspection of State Services and Local Authorities; Ahmed Attaf, Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the National Community Abroad and African Affairs; Amar Abba, Advisor to the President of the Republic in charge of Diplomatic Affairs; and Larbi Latrache, Algeria’s Ambassador to Germany.

Algeria Gate: Following President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s announcement that the death penalty would be applied to those who deliberately set fires, the French propaganda machine went into a state of hysteria over a sovereign decision that disrupted the calculations of the forces of evil working to set Algeria ablaze and destabilize it.

French television channels and newspapers agreed to filter their vocabulary and choose a specific description for the perpetrators of these crimes, adopting the word “Pyromane”, which means a person suffering from an obsession or pathological compulsion to start fires, instead of describing them as deliberate criminals or people involved in criminal acts.

So have French media outlets suddenly turned into psychiatric clinics, or is this linguistic choice an attempt to reframe the image of the perpetrator in the mind of the audience and shift the issue from the realm of crime, motive, responsibility and punishment into the realm of illness, sympathy and diminished capacity?

It is striking that BFMTV, CNews and Le Figaro all used the same description, which raises serious questions about the background of this media convergence, how innocent these platforms are of deliberately steering the narrative, who stands behind these media mouthpieces, and whether there are political circles in Paris seeking to influence public opinion and reshape its view of what is happening in Algeria.

When the description “deliberate arsonist” is replaced by “someone obsessed with starting fires”, it is not merely an innocent linguistic choice; words are not always neutral. They can become tools for reframing the event and changing the position of the perpetrator in the audience’s consciousness: from a criminal who bears responsibility for a deliberate act to a sick person who deserves sympathy and perhaps a lessening of his responsibility.

It is worth noting that Algeria has partially resumed the application of the death penalty after 33 years since the last judicial execution.

The Algerian president did not rule out that criminal acts may lie behind the massive fires that broke out in a number of Algerian provinces, affirming that the relevant services are conducting the necessary investigations.  

In the wake of this, Tebboune decided to take unprecedented measures by applying the death penalty to those who deliberately start fires. This was decided during a meeting he chaired last Sunday devoted to taking the necessary measures to deal with the aftermath and effects of the recent fires that affected a number of provinces in Algeria.

Algeria Gate: In a new episode of the saga of the swindler and one of the most wanted men by Algerian justice, Ayoub Aissiou has turned his prison cell into a room for dirty deals and launched from there a media lobbying campaign with a budget estimated at 5 million euros. The goal is to buy the positions of French newspapers, writers and politicians, and to use every possible form of pressure on the Spanish judiciary in an attempt to escape his inevitable fate.

According to media sources, Ayoub Aissiou is using the money of Algerians that was smuggled out of the country to buy media consciences and pay hired pens in Paris, such as Le JDD and Le Point, which belong to the empire of Vincent Bolloré, the far-right figure steeped in narratives hostile to Algeria.

Analysts, opinion writers, journalists and public figures are all being courted by the fugitive from Algerian justice through attractive bribes in exchange for supportive articles and positions that are presented to public opinion as independent views.

As soon as he was arrested, networks of influence in France launched a campaign to polish the image of a fake businessman and present him as a political opponent, through French lobbies working to pressure Madrid and obstruct his extradition to Algeria. The aim is to salvage his reputation and portray him as a political victim by deploying lobbying tools and allocating a huge budget estimated at 5 million euros for communications agencies, consultants, disguised advertisements, statements and petitions signed by personalities and intellectuals.

Former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls entered the fray to call for his defense, raising many questions about the motives behind this stance and whether financial interests lie behind it, especially given talk of Valls’ financial difficulties and debts. When recalling the financial situation Valls declared while he was Prime Minister, an article published by Le Figaro in June 2014 indicated that his net wealth did not exceed 93,150 euros after deducting his debts, while his loans amounted to around 200,500 euros and his liquidity was very limited.

The Algerian News Agency had previously revealed that the French propaganda machine is preparing to launch a new media campaign against Algeria through the channels TF1 and France Télévisions, mobilizing their media resources to promote the case of Ayoub Aissiou, who is wanted by Algerian justice and has been detained in Barcelona since July 25th on the basis of an international arrest warrant. Aissiou is being prosecuted before the Algerian courts on charges related to financial and commercial offences, including violation of legislation on the movement of capital to and from abroad, illicit transfer of currency, money laundering and concealment of proceeds linked to corruption, among other charges.

It is worth recalling that sources from Algeria Gate confirmed in previous articles that the Zionist-Moroccan lobby is working to present Ayoub Aissiou as a businessman, whereas he is in reality a professional smuggler and money launderer who usurped the title of businessman. The Spanish judicial authorities can verify that all the investment projects for which he obtained bank loans were never completed, while the funds have vanished to this day; whether the project to rehabilitate the iron factory in M’Sila, the milk production and cattle import project in Djelfa, or the stone-fruit trees project in the same province. The only projects that were partially completed were real-estate promotion apartments that were distributed to a number of officials and their children who later ended up in prison.