France’s Mask Falls: Arrest of Mehdi Ghezzar Exposes State Waging War on Free Journalism
✍️ BY: Dzair Tube
Algiers – December 2025 – In a striking display of the erosion of press freedom in France, Algerian journalist and prominent AL24 News commentator Mehdi Ghezzar was intercepted by French police near his residence in Paris before being released on Wednesday morning—an episode that exposes the deep fissures between France’s proclaimed democratic values and its increasingly punitive treatment of dissenting journalists.
Ghezzar told AL24 News that he had been held for several hours before being freed, yet the message behind his arrest was unmistakable: in today’s France, journalists who refuse to conform to the narratives sanctioned by the political establishment risk harassment, censorship, and intimidation.
This most recent incident comes on the heels of Ghezzar’s removal from the French radio station RMC, where he had been one of the most followed voices on the well-known program Les Grandes Gueules. His exclusion was not the result of journalistic misconduct or ethical breach; rather, it stemmed directly from his uncompromising stance on the genocide in Gaza and his unapologetic support for the Palestinian people. In a media landscape that has largely aligned itself with the Zionist entity’s narrative, Ghezzar’s clarity and moral courage made him a target.
For months, Ghezzar has reported being systematically detained at Parisian airports—an unmistakable pattern of pressure meant to silence a journalist whose commentary disrupts the comfort of dominant Western discourses. His interventions, marked by precision, courage, and intellectual integrity, have shed light on realities in Gaza that many Western media outlets deliberately obscure or dilute.
His arrest is widely viewed as yet another act of intimidation by French authorities against journalists who challenge the mainstream narrative—an ecosystem often criticized for being beholden to influential political and economic lobbies and for uncritically echoing the positions of the Zionist entity. In this context, France’s claims to be a bastion of liberty and a defender of global press freedoms appear increasingly hollow.
The contradiction is glaring: a nation that lectures the world on democratic principles is simultaneously cultivating an atmosphere in which dissent is monitored, punished, or sidelined. The treatment of Mehdi Ghezzar exposes the deepening chasm between France’s self-image as a defender of liberties and the lived reality of journalists who dare to speak inconvenient truths.
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