the surprising justification of Rima Hassan after its vote against the liberation of Boualem Sansal

Rima Hassan is justified. After positioning itself against a transpartisan resolution in the European Parliament, which requested the release of the writer Boualem Sansal, incarcerated since mid-November in Algeria, the MEP felt obliged to explain himself.

On the social network X, she develops her opinion in a series of publications, sometimes attacking the ideas of the writer, sometimes to the instrumentalization which would be made of his imprisonment by the extreme right. According to her, presented “Like a man of the Enlightenment”the writer actually defends “Far -right identity theses”, “Using the rhetoric of the great replacement” or “Stigmatizes exiled people”.

It also disputes the fact that it is considered as “One of the greatest French authors” by the national rally, even though “That he has only been French for a few months”. Boualem Sansal obtained French nationality in 2024, thanks to the intervention of Emmanuel Macron. The argument strangely resonates in the mouth of an elected representative of rebellious France, the party boosting in its program the creolization of France and listing the measures in favor of an enlargement of the right of asylum. “Any foreigner persecuted in his country can find asylum in France”can we read in bold in a booklet published by LFI, advocating “A humanist and realistic migration policy”.

Finally, Rima Hassan affirms, in a fairly devious reasoning, not to oppose the release of Mr. Sansal, but to oppose “The instrumentalization made of his case”. The text of the resolution was put to the agenda, according to the MEP, by “A coalition of the right and the extreme right”, She criticizes him in particular “To have been signed by Marion Le Pen”. “The instrumentalization of the case of Sansal for ends of interference and diplomatic climbing with a country neighboring the EU is coarse: for example of the amendments have been filed to introduce the question of Algerian immigration, the case Algerian influencers or the questioning of the EU-Algeria agreement. ”