Macron on Algeria visit says ‘painful past’ came in the way of looking to the future

On his second visit to Algeria, French President Emmanuel Macron on August 26 reiterated a commitment to building a better bilateral future between France and its former colony, saying a "painful common past (...) has at times prevented us from looking to the future".
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[abouosalah]

If the story was the other way around, I wonder how France would react to Algeria?!

[starmoon]

🇫🇷🇪🇺I hope France and Algeria can cooperate further and increase bilateral relations.✌🏼

[aditya_saha]

why is the future generation apologizing for the actions of the ancestors?
acknowledging it should be enough.

[greengo]

We will never forget our Algerians from 1871 were deported to New Caledonia 🇳🇨 by French occupation (the world criminal country

[freedom]

France should apologize to Algeria and focus on the Maghreb region …

[nunchucknads]

Brutal war that few outside of France really understand. Atrocities were committed by both sides and the scars of that war are still very visible. My mom is from a small town in Normandy where her parents and sister are buried in the town’s cemetery. Next to that grave, is one for a local guy who died fighting in Algeria in the early 1960’s. Whenever I visit my grandparent’s grave, I often wonder how that young man died and how he felt about that bloody conflict before passing. Imagine a war so costly that in a small town in the middle of nowhere has victims from that colonial war. I’d expect that from WW1 given the high number of French soldiers (1M+) who died in that global conflict but not a localized conflict in one of France’s former colonies.