In an official speech, the Head of State mentioned for the first time this Sunday, December 29, the arrest in Algiers of the Franco-Algerian writer, judging him in the pay of France, against a backdrop of diplomatic crisis on the issue of Western Sahara.
The path to appeasement is still far away. After weeks of silence on the subject, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune spoke for the first time of the arrest in mid-November in Algiers of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, calling him“imposter sent” by France, according to the Algerian information site TSA. “You send an impostor who 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 a “speech to the nation” delivered before both houses of Parliament and relayed by TSA.
“Colonization has left Algeria in ruins”
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 prison since mid-December. care unit. According to the World, his arrest would follow statements by Boualem Sansal to the French identity media Borders, taking up Morocco's position according to which the country's territory was 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 punishes “as a terrorist or subversive act, any act targeting the security of the State, the integrity of the territory, the stability and the normal functioning of institutions”.
Abdelmadjid Tebboune, re-elected at the beginning of September for a second term, 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”, A spiritual person, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, believes that “colonization [1830-1962] left Algeria in ruins […]. They must admit that they killed and massacred Algerians.”
“A question of 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 estimated that it was a question of“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 Paris 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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