The French authorities in the Hauts-de-Seine region are planning to implement a dangerous project that directly targets hundreds of Algerians living in social housing, under the pretext of “fighting crime.” An agreement was signed between the police department, the Nanterre court and 35 social housing management bodies, allowing families to be evicted from their homes if one of their members commits acts “contrary to public order.”

However, it is clear that this decision carries with it a systematic targeting of immigrant families, especially Algerian ones, as this neighborhood is home to hundreds of Algerian families who are threatened with displacement and marginalization.

Instead of addressing social issues through support and integration policies for unemployed youth, France chose the easiest and most unjust weapon: mass eviction from housing.

The French authorities have already started implementing this decision, after an Algerian mother and her two sons were evicted from their housing in Levallois-Perret, based on an unfair principle explained by the newspaper Le Parisien, namely: “If one member of the family makes a mistake, everyone is punished!”, in a blatant violation of the most basic principles of justice.

Official statements from officials of housing companies such as Sikans reveal a deliberate intention to impose a “selective eviction system,” targeting neighborhoods described as “troubled” and often populated by Algerian immigrants, opening the door to generalized punishment and demonization of the entire community.

At a time when Algerian families are suffering from a severe housing crisis and systematic marginalization, they are being pushed to the brink under the guise of “enforcing order.”

This policy, although cloaked in legal terminology, is really an undeclared declaration of social warfare against Algerian migrants. It is a new attempt to weaken their ties to French society, waving the expulsion card as a tool of deterrence and intimidation.

Despite its desperate attempts to appear as a peaceful and democratic country, France is today revealing the face of its neo-colonialism with legal methods, but it carries the same old mentality that it applied to Algerians during the colonial period, from repression and control to discrimination and displacement.

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