Le racisme à l’état pur

Racism in its pure state

It is still fresh in the memories, it happened on Friday August 8, 2025: Ms. Noëlle Lenoir (former French Minister of European Affairs between 2002 and 2004) accused on CNews the “millions of Algerians” of France of being potential terrorists capable of representing “major risks”. At no time did the host of the CNews channel reminded it of order. Less than a week later, in its issue dated Thursday August 14, 2025, the French weekly Le Point adds a layer in the anti-Algerian campaign, by devoting a central five-page file to Kabylia.

Two consecutive acts that are not due to chance. Regarding Ms. Lenoir- who said: “Millions of Algerians could take out a knife in the metro, at the station, in the street or anywhere, or get into a car and overturn a crowd”-, the French Union of Binationals and the Algerian diaspora sent a request to the Paris administrative court against CNEWS, believing that the remarks made on this channel were likely to receive the “qualifications racial hatred and provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence towards a group because of its national origin. ” The association asked the judge of summary proceedings “to order CNEWS the immediate dissemination, at a prime time, of a correction and public excuses addressed to the Franco-Algerian binationals and to the Algerian diaspora”, in addition to a fine of 50,000 euros. The organization “SOS Racisme” filed a complaint against the former French minister, Noëlle Lenoir, after her racist remarks targeting Algerians in France, held last Friday during a program on the CNews television channel.

The former minister made, live, words of an “extreme gravity targeting the Algerians”, underlines “SOS racism”. Ms. Lenoir said that “millions of Algerians represent major risks” and suggested that they should be “kept in administrative detention up to 210 days”. These claims, presented as general and undifferentiated, assimilate all people of Algerian origin living in France with “threats to public security”. These statements, considered as a general stigma, led the association to seize the French Audiovisual and Digital Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom) to request sanctions against CNEWS, accused of normalizing racism in public debate. Its president, Dominique Sopo, denounced Lenoir’s xenophobic drift and called for firm measures against hatred speeches disseminated by CNews.
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