The vote of several MEPs La France Insoumise (LFI) against a resolution of the European Parliament-subject to the vote Thursday January 23 and very largely voted (533 votes for, 24 against and 48 abstentions)-asking for the release of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, incarcerated since mid-November in Algeria, has aroused strong reactions. The LFI delegation was shared between 4 votes against and 2 abstentions. Rima Hassan voted against, while Manon Aubry abstained.
“It's a shame!” Frankly, abstain or vote against such a factual text where there is nothing ideological, nothing historic that is questionable, it is simply endorsement of the imprisonment of an immense writer in jails and c ' is deeply scandalous “said on BFM-TV and RMC Raphaël Glucksmann, who sits with the socialists.
The former “rebellious” François Ruffin said he was “Complete disagreement” With the vote of his former comrades. “The place of a writer is not in prison, whether or not they agree with what he writes. Obviously you have to do everything for the release of a writer ”he reacted to France Inter.
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Bruno Retailleau “asks LFI to justify himself”
Also outcry to the right. “You realize that this resolution required the immediate release of a sick man, an elderly man. And mme Rima Hassan says “No, I refuse, I vote against”. It's inhuman, it's politically scandalous. And I also ask LFI to justify itself ”added the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, on Europe 1 and CNews.
Rima Hassan defended herself on X by affirming in particular “Oppose the instrumentalization that is done” From the case of M. Sansal by the right and the extreme right in the already stormy relations between France and Algeria.
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Mr. Retailleau considered that Boualem Sansal was “No doubt the hostage of this tense relationship between the two countries” and asked “In the Algerian regime a humanitarian gesture”.
According to information from Mondethe Algerian power would have badly took declarations by Mr. Sansal to the French far -right media borders, taking up the position of Morocco according to which the territory of the country would have been truncated under French colonization for the benefit of Algeria.
For Mr. Glucksmann, this vote is an additional argument to justify the rupture in France between socialists and “rebellious”. “Our vision of the world, our principles are not the same. Our relationship to public debate is not the same. Let's stop hypocrisy “he pleaded.
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