“We deplore that French diplomacy (…) and the French authorities in the broader sense, are very timid when it comes to the dissolution of organizations”, declared Patrick Baudouin, president of the Ligue des droits de l’Homme (LDH) at a press conference in Paris on the human rights situation in Algeria.
The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) announced at the end of January that it had been dissolved without its knowledge by the Algerian authorities during a trial held in its absence.
“We must indeed exert pressure to ask the French government to act” in relation to the situation of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights, he added.
According to the president of the LDH, “France has difficulty in acting for reasons linked to the history of Franco-Algerian relations” but also for geopolitical reasons.
“With the Ukrainian crisis, France needs oil from Algeria and others, so we can clearly see the limits of possible action,” he said.
He thus wished that France could “within Europe and through the voice of Europe” act “to try to come to the aid of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights and more broadly to Algerian defenders. human rights”.