Algerian president calls writer Sansal an “imposter” sent by

Algerian president calls writer Sansal an “imposter” sent by
Algerian president calls writer Sansal an “imposter” sent by France

The Algerian president spoke for the first time of the arrest in mid-November in Algiers of Boualem Sansal. He accused of having sent the Franco-Algerian writer whom he described as an “imposter”. He “does not know his identity, does not know his father and comes to say that half of Algeria belongs to another state,” declared Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in an extract from an official speech, reported by the website Algerian TSA information.

Critic of Algerian power, Boualem Sansal, 80 years old, born to a Moroccan father and an Algerian mother, has been incarcerated since mid-November for endangering state security and has been in a care unit since mid-December.

Statements to far-right media

According to the French daily The Worldthe power in Algiers would have taken badly statements by Boualem Sansal to the far-right French media Frontières, taking up Morocco's position according to which the territory of the country would have been truncated under French colonization for the benefit of Algeria.

The author of 2084: the end of the worldnaturalized French in 2024, is prosecuted under article 87 bis of the Penal Code, which sanctions “as a terrorist or subversive act, any act targeting the security of the State, the integrity of the territory, the stability and the functioning normal of institutions”.

“Colonization has left Algeria in ruins”

In a “speech to the nation” delivered before both houses of Parliament, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, re-elected for a second term in early September, strongly attacked France, according to extracts in Arabic published on the official website of the presidency .

” Those [en France] who say that we left a paradise to Algeria should know that 90% of the Algerian people were illiterate at the time of independence”, underlined Abdelmadjid Tebboune, estimating that “colonization [1830-1962] left Algeria in ruins […] they must admit that they killed and massacred Algerians.”

“Decolonization” and “self-determination”

On the issue of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony of which Morocco controls 80% of the territory but which is claimed by the separatists of the Polisario Front supported by Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune considered that it was “a question of decolonization and self-determination. According to him, the autonomy plan “under Moroccan sovereignty” defended by Rabat is “a French idea, not a Moroccan one”.

Algiers withdrew its ambassador from at the end of July when French President Emmanuel Macron gave strong support to Moroccan proposals on Western Sahara, before going to Rabat at the end of October.

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