French deputies ask for the release of Boualem Sansal. The Franco-Algerian writer, criticism of the Abdelmadjid Tebboune regime, has been imprisoned in Algeria since November 16.
This Tuesday, May 6, the National Assembly adopted the text of the deputy together for the Republic (EPR) Constance Le Grip. But not unanimously: 307 votes for and 38 against. Indeed, rebellious deputies opposed the proposal for resolution calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the writer, suffering from cancer and aged 80 years. The Communists have chosen to abstain. In committee, the PS deputies had abstained. They ended up changing their mind today in public session.
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To justify their choice, the rebellious argues that the “Resolution is not content to ask for his release. Under the guise of defense of fundamental freedoms, it stirs up political tensions between France and Algeria ”, According to MP LFI Nathalie Oziol.
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-Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, who has been calling for the release of Boualem Sansal for months, reacted to the vote of the rebels on X: “By voting against the resolution adopted by the National Assembly requesting the release of Boualem Sansal, LFI dark once again in unworthiness and dishonor. Shame “.
The deputy Constance The Grip commented on the vote of the Assembly with the Figaro, By welcoming the adoption of the text: “It is very important that the National Assembly rises and sends a clear and unambiguous message, an appeal to the Algerian authorities to the immediate and without conditions of Boualem Sansal”.
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As a reminder, Boualem Sansal recently called on his sentence to five years in prison in Algeria. Hot since November 2024, he is accused of attacking the integrity of the territory. The authorities would blame him for statements to the media Boundaries on the fact that the Moroccan territory would have been truncated under French colonization for the benefit of Algeria. His incentive in mid-November has raised the indignation of many political leaders and figures of French cultural and intellectual circles, denouncing arbitrary arrest and an attack on freedom of expression. The French government is also asking for its release.
