Saâda Arbane is a 31 -year -old Oranaise, married and mother of a young boy. Survivor of the atrocities committed during the civil war in Algeria in the 1990s, she ensures that she had become, without her knowledge and even against her will, the model of Aube (Fajr, in Arabic), the heroine of the last novel by the Franco-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud, Hourispublished in the summer of 2024 by Gallimard and awarded the Goncourt in November. “On three times, she affirms to Monde in an interview carried out by videoconference, Kamel Daoud and his wife asked me for the right to use my story. I refused each time. »»
Feeling “Betray”Saâda Arbane launched two legal proceedings, one in Algeria for “violation of medical secrecy”, the other in France for “infringement of privacy”. Carried by lawyers William Bourdon and Lily Ravon, the latter is the result of a assignment in justice issued to the writer on February 13, of which Mediapart has already mentioned and that The world consulted. It could lead in a few months to a civil lawsuit before the 17the Chamber of the Paris judicial court. Kamel Daoud, whose thick novel is not limited to the history of disputed but is also a reflection on the recent past of his country, denies for his part any attack on the private life of Saâda Arbane.
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