Boualem Sansal, rebellious drift [L’éditorial de CL]

“This refusal to support an arbitrarily detained author appears as unworthy as they are scandalous. »»

But beyond the vote it is the elements to justify it that deserve attention. In a long message on X, Rima Hassan legitimizes the judicial decision of Algerian power, invokes the supposed defense by Sansal of identity theses and the theory of “great replacement” and denounces a resolution instrumentalized by the extreme right. She even goes so far as to point a writer who has only been French for a few months. A remarks then relayed without discomfort by the rebellious eggs, to Manuel Bompard, the first voice of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. None of the arguments resist the analysis. If the positions of the writer, opponent displayed by the Algiers regime and fighting against Islamism, can be disputed, they do not testify in any way of any membership in the extreme right. As for the instrumentalization of the European Parliament, the vote of 533 deputies all trends combined (24 against and 48 abstentions) in fact litter.

The resolution in question, purely symbolic, will unfortunately not change the sad fate of Boualem Sansal. But the position of LFI accredits its drift a little more. In the aftermath of the October 7 attack perpetrated by Hamas, the Melenchonist Party had denied the terrorist character of the massacre and thus caused the end of the cloud. It is now difficult to see how training of the new Popular Front could remain allied with a party refusing, for strategic and ideological reasons, to defend the freedom of a writer.