The Algerian army chooses the Jeune Afrique to bury the “heavy” legacy of General Gaid Salah and promote Said Chanegriha

Once not custom. The Algerian People’s Army chose Paris to carry out Operation Kom Kabir. Indeed, the “face-lifting” operation, according to Maghreb intelligence sources, has been entrusted to Brigadier General Mehna Djebar at the head of the General Directorate for Combating Sabotage (DGLS) since November 2021.

The one who was able, in January 2022, to put in the Parisian weekly Jeune Afrique an article quite commendable about himself, this time succeeded in selling, by the same medium, an article on “feathers”, “silent revolution” and “pioneer”. “. Change “in the Algerian army.

The article begins by painting a scathing portrait of the former deputy defense minister, Ahmed Gaid Salah, described as “brutal, aggressive, omnipresent on the political scene”. On the contrary, Jeune Afrique stars General Said Changaria, the current head of the ANP, who is considered “conservative, not too intrusive and does not seek the spotlight”. In one paragraph and two sentences, the weekly denotes the late major general and the promotion of the new army chief.

However, the thread is quite large. Operation Kom strategists in the military take Algerian readers as goldfish. They pretend to forget that it was Gaid Salah who imposed Abdel Majid Tebboune as head of state. They pretend to forget that Qaid Salah was the one who bombed Said Shangriha as head of the army, thus setting him on the path of his succession.

This “face-lift” contained another major lie. Presentation of General Said Chanegriha as having little focus on politics. In fact, not a single day goes by without Generalissimo getting involved in politics, sports or even the economy. This is attested by the frequent editorials of the Army magazine, as well as the television appearances of the Algerian National Police Chief of Staff.

Indeed, the only reform that the new strongmen of the Algerian army have been engaged in is the settlement of great scores against the Gaid Salah clan.