In the pure Barbary tradition and Mediterranean raids, the Algerian dictatorship attacked the writer Boualem Sansal by sequestering him as he left his plane. Born in Algeria, lover of reason and freedom, opponent of the obscurantism and corruption which plague his native country, Boualem Sansal has never ceased to alert France and the West to the dangers of an Islam conqueror and revanchist powers who want to do battle with our liberal democracies.
It was enough for the Algerian regime to attack this courageous thinker, who became a French citizen out of love for our country. This assault must be compared with the political harassment to which the writer Kamel Daoud and his family have been subject, since the first was awarded the highest French literary distinction for his work on the black decade, the devastation despotism and superstition which disfigure what was the homeland of Saint Augustine and Apuleius, before its colonization by the legions of Mohammed.
France tried to coax
an Algerian power which multiplied
signs of hostility
It is also because of the lamentable state of Algeria that the first decision that many of its children took after the end of French domination was to reach the northern shore of the Mediterranean to throw themselves into the arms of of the French colonizer whom they had just driven south of it. Dismayingly, this contradiction does not inspire the slightest self-criticism among cheap patriots, who love their country so much that they put up with its decline, unlike writers in the crosshairs of incompetent tyrants.
Through its sneaky attacks, the corrupt regime of Abdelmadjid Tebboune is testing Paris. It must be said that France has repeatedly bowed to a State which despises its people and remains, unlike Asian countries, incapable of building a prosperous society despite sixty years of independence. If indeed this term is appropriate for a country which has only exchanged French tutelage to come under the yoke of despots and Islamists whose indigenous hand is no gentler than that of the former metropolis.
From repentance to repentance, France tried to mollify an Algerian power which multiplied the signs of hostility all the more as the new generations became foreign to the French colonial period and the misdeeds associated with it. She has, once again, forgotten the lesson of Julien Freund: “ it is the enemy who designates you. And if he wants you to be his enemy, you can make the most beautiful protests of friendship. As long as he wants you to be his enemy, you are. »
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France must demand the immediate release of Boualem Sansal
In this case, signs of deference towards a state openly hostile to France and human decency were, rightly, interpreted as signs of weakness. They encouraged the voracity of a regime less traumatized by colonization as such than by the political, economic and scientific backwardness which prevented it from finding itself on the right side of the gunboat when the war opened. era of the steam engine and the tremendous humanitarian progress that came from it. From there to maintain that our world would have been more civilized if the industrial revolution was brought about by a Barbary regency refractory to freedom and equality, to the point that it never knew how to abolish slavery on its own initiative, between other infamous institutions, there is a step that only the most deranged would take.
France must whistle the end of recreation for this regime whose façade of anti-colonialism is only the screen for its baseness. She must demand the immediate release of Boualem Sansal. It must use all the levers at its disposal to put pressure on a regime which only understands the balance of power. Denunciation of the 1968 agreement, freezing of Algerian assets, confiscation of the properties of dignitaries of the regime, end of development aid, expulsion of enemies of France linked to it, blocking of transfers from the diaspora, suspension of visas granted to the Algerian oligarchy which has benefited enough from the generosity of a country that it hates all the more because it lives at its expense, etc. The Algerian dictatorship knows this perfectly: certain countries have, in recent history, been invaded for less than that. It’s up to the French government to remind them of this as quickly as possible.
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