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The journalistic excrement of Jean-Pierre Sereni
Troubadour Analyst
Each Algerian presidential election offers acrobat journalists, troubadour analysts and other Nimbus professors a big funfair tent with bearded lady, fire-eater and cannon man.
In this register, we remember
the “eminent” American professor Robert Zaretsky who, barely two weeks before the Algerian presidential elections of 2019, in the middle of Hirak, had uttered the greatest idiocy ever uttered in the political domain: “The failure of the election [présidentielle algérienne] will be a democratic success”[1]. And this, in the famous magazine “Foreign Affairs”! This is to say to what extent the intellectual level of Western political correctness is low-key. Even when the article is mercenary journalism, can’t we make a little effort not to be the laughing stock of the brotherhood of paid analysts? Isn’t that right, Bob?
We thought we had reached rock bottom with “Bob the cheap democrat”, but no, not at all. Five years later, another member of this brotherhood, a certain Jean-Pierre Sereni, took over to try to win, at the same time, the Nobel Prize for “journalistic rubbish”, the Guinness Book of “Fake News” and the Goncourt Prize for gratuitous, petty and abject insults. All this nauseating hodgepodge of journalistic excrement was kneaded into an article with the provocative title: “Presidential election in Algeria. Full speed ahead towards stagnation”[2].
However, Jean-Pierre Sereni does not hold back from showing off his flashy CV that he pompously hangs on his chest.
like a fake medal.
Indeed, described as a “Maghreb specialist”, he presents himself as “former director of the Nouvel Économiste and former editor-in-chief of l’Express”, no less. This actually shows the level of advanced decrepitude reached by French journalism.
Ad personam attacks
The first remark that comes to mind when reading Sereni’s “article” is the enormous quantity of crude, offensive and insolent qualifiers that he used to insult the Algerian President: not a single respectful or neutral word. This profusion of derogatory epithets towards the country’s top magistrate denotes both a lack of crass professionalism and a visceral hatred against Algeria and its institutions. Let it be said: ad personam attacks are only the prerogative of people whose analysis is weak and devoid of solid argumentation, despicable people who confuse journalism and vulgar gossip. especially when they are uttered by a so-called “director” of some hexagonal rag who is supposed to know the ethics of the profession!
But on closer inspection, we find a certain similarity between Sereni’s filthy language and that of certain pathetic “offshore opponents” whose real mission is to “springize” Algeria. TV channels in the colors of the black decade, YouTubers expert in chatter and other indescribable fauna squatting social media.
Settled in Europe, they have become masters in the use of bird names when it comes to describing Algeria and its institutions. True “ornithologists” of slander, mediocrity and imposture protected and used by certain governments under the fallacious pretext of “freedom of expression”.
Indeed, these same countries have recently shown us how sensitive they are to this principle by prosecuting manu militari anyone who deigns to publicly display any support for Palestine or oppose the barbaric genocide perpetrated by the Hebrew state against the Palestinian civilian population.
Would Sereni have something to say on this subject or is France not in his area of competence? And are these similarities the result of chance or of a collusion between Sereni and the “offshore opponents” some of whom claim to belong to groups classified as “terrorists” by the Algerian government?
Fact Checking
Sereni’s “article” is so riddled with falsehoods, biased information and lies by omission that it would be tedious to respond to them exhaustively. However, we will focus on a few of them to illustrate our point.” […] of thousands of social housing units as ugly as they are dilapidated […]»
Sereni admits that social housing has been built in Algeria, but he diminishes its importance by knowingly adding derogatory epithets. If he had a zest of honesty, he would have praised the various pharaonic programs for the construction of housing accessible to all Algerians. It is not about the construction of thousands, but hundreds of thousands of housing units in all Algerian cities that have allowed the eradication of thousands of shanty towns “as ugly as they are dilapidated” that disfigured the cities. As recently as July 5, the anniversary of Algeria’s independence, more than 250,000 housing units were distributed to Algerian citizens. [3].
Sereni must surely know that in countries as rich as those of the G7, such as France or Canada, a severe housing crisis is in full swing. According to Le Monde, in France (Sereni’s own country), “2.6 million people were on the waiting list to obtain social housing in 2023, a record!”[4].
In Canada, “to restore affordability by 2030, the country needs 3.5 million more homes than would be built at the current rate.” […]»[5]According to the UN, 1.6 billion people live in precarious or inadequate housing worldwide, a figure expected to double by 2050. [6]. It is interesting to note that this stupid criticism concerning the construction of social housing has also been taken up by some “offshore opponents”[7]. As such, the convergence of mission between Sereni and these individuals is becoming more and more clear.
Very few countries in the world have the means and, above all, the political will to invest in such a colossal way in order to allow their citizens to access decent property. But Sereni will never admit this: he is always nostalgic for the “blessed time of colonization” during which the settlers lived in the nice neighborhoods while the “natives” were penned in unsanitary slums, mud huts and other sordid barracks.
Ah, the civilizing mission of French colonization so dear to Sereni!
“Except for fuel and electricity sold off by the State […]” Here again, Sereni is not happy. Instead of rejoicing to see the Algerian state offer fuel and electricity at affordable prices to every Algerian citizen, he finds a way to denigrate this social policy which is in contradiction with his ultra-liberal and savage capitalist vision. Vision which led France into the disastrous situation in which it currently finds itself. He would certainly have preferred that fuel be paid at the exorbitant price of his country and that electricity be rationed as is the case in many countries. Let us recall that in France, the high cost of electricity has forced a worrying proportion of households to reduce their quality of life and to eke out an existence in the cold so as not to see their bills explode. [8]As recently as last April, the newspaper Les Echos acknowledged the state of energy insecurity of the French population with the headline: “The French are finding it increasingly difficult to pay their gas and electricity bills.” [9].
“Three million unemployed people receive 70% of the minimum wage doing nothing, which encourages mass inactivity […]»
The journalist Sereni continues to bore us with nonsense unworthy of someone whose CV mentions that he was once “director of the Nouvel Économiste” (sic!). We have seen, read and heard everything! The Algerian government offers unemployment benefits to three million young job seekers to ensure them a subsistence income, and our Sunday economist is not happy under the far-fetched pretext of encouraging inactivity!
First, it should be noted that very few African countries provide such benefits to their nationals and, according to the “World Social Protection Report 2020-2022” published by the International Labour Organization (ILO): “Less than a fifth of the world’s unemployed actually receive unemployment benefits.”[10].
Second, if this subsidy encouraged inactivity, can he explain to us why it has existed for decades in his country and in all Western countries? Whether you like it or not, Mr. Sereni, the Algerian state will continue to build apartments for its citizens, to provide them with electricity, gas and fuel at low prices and to offer benefits to its unemployed.
Rather, deal with the anger of the “yellow vests”, the anger against the pension reform in France, the police violence, the galloping impoverishment of the French population and the battering rams of the fascist extreme right against the institutions of the “Republic” instead of spewing your nonsense against Algeria which is celebrating its 62 years of independence. Did I say “IND-E-PENDANCE”, Mr. Sereni or should we keep repeating it to you?
“A courageous journalist, Ihsan El Kadi, devoted an informed article to it on his site, Radio M. He received five years in prison!”
Ah! The courage of the secret agents! We’ve heard that one before! Sereni continues to use fake news even though this case has been discussed at length.
He uses the language of these NGOs paid top dollar for their subversion work in Algeria. The language of these “offshore opponents” who were mentioned previously and from whom he must draw inspiration or with whom he must consult.
First of all, it must be said that Radio M was not a space for freedom of expression. On the contrary, this media followed a very specific agenda that advocated the transition phase, in concert with certain organizations classified as “terrorists”, and any other voice was ignored.
This option was concocted with a view to the “springization” of Algeria as was the case in Libya, Syria and elsewhere in the Arab world. But the most important thing is that Radio M was financed by the Quai d’Orsay, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France and Navarre, Sereni’s country. The details of this affair have been recorded in some of my articles [11]. I strongly recommend that Mr. Sereni read them so as not to appear more of a moron than he already is. […] An unfortunate chicken sells for 2,000 dinars (DA) in Algiers […]”In Sétif, bananas, the Algerians’ favourite fruit, sell at Paris prices,” reports a young man who has gone to the country for the holidays.
I don’t know what chicken Mr. Sereni is talking about, but to my knowledge, giant chickens do not exist in Algeria, nor those with elephantiasis. Could this be the price of an “unfortunate” ostrich by chance? Indeed, I asked two friends, one in Paris and the other in Algiers, to photograph the average price of whole chickens in these two cities on the same day, that is, June 28, 2024.
Thus, we see that the price of a kilogram of chicken in Paris is, “at the parallel exchange rate” as Sereni so rightly points out, 3.6 times more expensive than in Algiers. That is to say that for equal weight, for the price of a chicken in Paris you can have almost four in Algiers!