The Franco-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud, Prix Goncourt 2024 for his book Hourisguest of the Comedy of the Book this Friday, May 9, is targeted by two international arrest warrants issued by the Algerian justice, we learned this Tuesday, May 6.
“Kamel Daoud has just been informed, without further details, that two arrest warrants would have been issued against him by Algerian justice”. It was his lawyer Pauline Laffont who announced information to Radio France, confirming information from the point.
The reasons are not known “so much interpol does not communicate on the procedures of which it is recipient, these mandates would be issued by a judge of the court of Oran, city of the west of Algeria where the journalist and writer lived”, we can read in the point.
The first mandate was issued in March and the second in early May. “The motivations of such Algerian mandates could only be political and register in a set of procedures carried out to silence a writer whose last novel evokes the massacres of the dark decade in Algeria”explained his lawyer who will, without delay, file a preemptive request.
-The Franco-Algerian writer, Goncourt 2024 prize, is targeted by four complaints in Algeria and France, notably brought by Saâda Arbane, a surviving civil war, who accuses him of having used his personal history to create heroine dawn of his novel Houris.
Summoned to court this Wednesday for another case
A novel which is prohibited in Algeria where Kamel Daoud is accused of betrayal towards his country.
This Wednesday, May 7, Kamel Daoud was summoned to the Paris court for a first procedural hearing within the framework of the legal action of Saada Arbane.
Friday, May 9, he opens the comedy of the book with a long -awaited conference at the Opera. The management of the event “does not think” that this new news calls into question the arrival of the Goncourt 2024 prize.
