2024-08-28 13:21:31
Writer Mehdi Ghezzar, regular on “Grandes Gueules” on RMC, created controversy during an intervention on Algerian television about the Moroccan invasion of power. RMC announced on Wednesday that it will no longer be returning to air.
Published on 08/28/2024 3:19 pm
Updated 28/08/2024 03:21
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Writer Mehdi Ghezzar on the set of the Algerian television channel AL24. (SCREENSHOT AL24)
Controversy that has been growing since media coverage. Sunday August 25, columnist and entrepreneur Mehdi Ghezzar spoke on the set of the Algerian television channel AL24 about the Kingdom of Morocco. Franceinfo explains to you why his comments caused a heated debate which does not seem to go on social networks.
Words of violence
Asked about the Moroccan neighbor in the program “Hebdo Show”, the businessman described it as “Thailand of Africa” before you explain your comments in front attack. “It is a rogue state through its drug networks. It wants to steal children, some of them. It wants to kill children, some of them. It wants to buy drugs, some of them. It wants prostitution to come, excuse me, you have nothing but a Muslim country, you have to tell yourself something.
He then continued about the debate between Moroccan and Algerian diplomats, against the backdrop of tensions over Western Sahara, during the Tokyo International Conference on African Development: “I am very proud that the violence of the diplomatic regime is in front of the whole world and I am very happy with the solidarity between the Sahrawi people and Algeria.”
Mehdi Ghezzar also, during the program, accused the royal adviser to the King of Morocco, André Azoulay, of being at the origin of a royal decree that forbids Moroccans to express their solidarity with Palestine. A statement that caused many reactions, including that of Eric Ciotti, the president of the group Right! at the National Assembly.
A geopolitical tension is correct
This media release took place in a context of high tensions between the two countries. One of them concerns the Western Sahara. Morocco says that this area to the south, of more than 250,000 square kilometers, which is not Algeria’s taste. This supports the independence of Western Sahara, whose lands are rich in phosphates and the coast in fishing resources. This former Spanish colony, the only region on the African continent whose colonial status is undecided, is considered as “non-government area” by the UN and has strained relations between Morocco and Algeria for years.
Tensions began on July 30, 2024 when France, in a letter to King Mohammed VI, decided to consider “significant development” of your position. Paris wrote there that “The present and future of the West Bank falls within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty”Alger immediately reminded him of the ambassador in France “with immediate effect”.
RMC’s “Grandes Gueules” ended his participation
Another result of Mehdi Ghezzar’s statements: the show “Grandes Gueules” on RMC announced live on Wednesday that he will not return. “Following the unacceptable comments made by Mehdi Ghezzar on foreign television, the management of RMC and Les Grandes Gueules have decided to limit Mehdi Ghezzar’s participation in the show”. read the presenter Alain Marschall, without making any further comments. The hashtag #BoycottRMC was launched a few hours ago on the social network
Mehdi Ghezzar has not responded yet. Access to your X account, which has more than 8,000 subscribers, is now private.
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