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Heba Bryce
The so-called”army magazine”, the official propaganda trumpet of the ruling junta in Algeria, found itself in an unenviable position after seven minor children embarked on a mad adventure through a stolen boat towards the Spanish coasts, in a shocking incident that caught the attention of the international media and raised its astonishment.
Instead of acknowledging a miserable reality that made children risk stealing a boat to face a journey of death across the Mediterranean, only because they were looking for lost dignity and a place to be treated as human beings, the magazine resorted to disguising and misleading public opinion in its usual ways.
It has blatantly tried to mitigate the scandal by claiming that irregular migration is a “global phenomenon that does not belong to a specific country”, and that Algeria is no exception to it. It’s like she’s saying to the world, “If we drown, let’s all drown.”
It did not stop there, but instead blamed “hostile media agendas” that seek, as it claimed, to distort Algeria’s image abroad, forgetting that the first enemy of Algeria’s image is the military regime itself, with its stupid policies that bring nothing but shame, and with its miserable media that, whenever it shoots an arrow, it retreats to its chest.
Because it is unable to name the alleged “enemies”, the magazine began to accuse the “virtual space” of luring children and planting in them a dark image of their homeland, in an absurd logic that does not convince even its author.
Continuing the conspiracy game, the magazine claimed that “hostile media” inflated the incident of the escape of seven minors on September 5, 2025 from the heart of the Algerian capital, with the aim of “striking Algeria’s stability and distorting its institutions.”
In an article full of creation and fabricated allegations, the magazine uploaded what it called “hidden agendas and malicious intentions” that allegedly sought to selectively market the incident to offend Algeria.
But the stark truth is that the mere news of children fleeing a supposedly “power-hit” country was enough to expose the fragility of this illusion, and beg the big question: Where is that so-called “power” if a few articles confuse its alleged stability?
