The Franco-Algerian writer, incarcerated since mid-November in Algiers, transferred this Monday, December 16 to a care unit, is familiar with Perpignan. He received the Mediterranean prize there in 2022. The City will make him an honorary citizen this Friday.
In support of Boualem Sansal, the city of Perpignan will display a banner with his image on the facade of the city hall, this Friday, December 20 at noon, and will make him Honorary Citizen during the municipal council a few hours later. Critical of the Algerian power that he denounces in these books, the 80-year-old author was imprisoned in Algiers more than a month ago now. Suffering, he was placed in a care unit. This Monday, December 16, during a support evening in Paris, his lawyer François Zimeray launched an appeal “and I will have the opportunity to do so in other forms, to the Algerian authorities, to demonstrate, quite simply, humanity in this matter.”reports The World.
“The City of Perpignan supports Boualem Sansal in this fight that it shares for freedom of expression”, specifies André Bonet. “She is an infallible support of this freedom and this courage”, insists the culture assistant. “Boualem is with Kamel Daoud, 2024 Goncourt Prize for Houris, or Tahar Djaout, 1991 Mediterranean Prize, assassinated two years later, of those who dare to tell the truth about Algerian power. Boualem writes freedom, the truth, it is translated in the whole world He is also familiar with Perpignan, where he comes regularly, to receive his Mediterranean prize in 2022, for our conference on freedom of expression this year. spring We went to the Rivesaltes Memorial.
André Bonet is one of the signatories of “The letter to Abdelmajid Tebboune”, the Algerian president, requesting the release of Boualem Sansal, “in the name of humanity”. Letter signed by numerous personalities including Elisabeth Badinter and Luc Ferry.
