Algerian Commentator Denies Authorship of Offensive Tweets Against Morocco After AFCON Elimination

"Thank you to the Twitter management, who closed the fake account that fabricated a message disseminated by sedition merchants and electronic flies [...] who exploit it for blatant purposes. And to all the other followers who have triumphed the truth by exposing the fabrication of false messages by reporting it to Twitter, I say from the bottom of my heart, thank you," Hafid Derradji tweeted.

On Thursday, a Moroccan internet user is said to have sent the Algerian commentator a message a few minutes after Algeria’s heavy defeat against Côte d’Ivoire (3-1). "It’s no big deal, it’s a Moroccan-Sonist plot," she wrote to him. A message that would have provoked the anger of Hafid Derradji. "The whole world knows that you are sons of bitches. Whoever says Moroccan, says whore and whoever says Moroccan says son of a bitch. The latest figures show that half of Moroccan women are of unknown parents," the Algerian sports commentator is said to have replied, before blocking the Moroccan internet user.

Although Hafid Derradji claims not to be the author of the tweets, internet users are convinced otherwise. Many of them are also demanding his dismissal from the Qatari channel.