Since the disappearance of Boualem Sansal on November 16, and the official confirmation through the Algerian press agency of his arrest by the Algerian authorities at the airport, the French government has been walking on eggshells. On the side of the French political class, as in the world of culture, support was numerous, and calls for his release, just as vehement as the condemnation of the Algiers regime.
But until now, no member of Michel Barnier’s government has risked the slightest comment about this affair. At most we will know from the entourage of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, that he is “concerned» by this affair.
On November 26, at the National Assembly, MP Guillaume Bigot therefore directly questioned the head of government, Michel Barnier, about the decisions that would be taken, calling on France to react. “We all know this saying from General de Gaulle: we cannot embassy Voltaire. In Algiers, a greedy and brutal regime has just arrested Boualem Sansal, an Arab Voltaire, an Algerian Voltaire, a French Voltaire. So why this oppressive silence from your government?», Launched Guillaume Bigot.
The explanation put forward that “diplomacy to be effective must work discreetly,” does not convince in the ranks of the National Rally, because recalls the deputy, faced with this silent diplomacy, “the arrest, undoubtedly the mistreatment and the probable conviction of a 75-year-old man, who is one of the best minds in Arabic and French, was not discreet“. Putting two diametrically opposed ways of doing things back to back, Guillaume Bigot drives the point home by recalling that this arrest “is not the work of a terrorist group“, but from a country.
The MP continues his speech by tearing the veil on the true intentions of the Algerian regime by arresting Boualem Sansal. “It is for a regime the spectacular means of silencing critical thinking, of intimidating Algerians who love freedom, the Kabyles whom Boualem Sansal defended, and also of intimidating the millions of Franco-Algerians who must also learn to to be silent“, he explains.
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But this act of intimidation, committed against its own people, is not the only misdeed of the Algiers regime which is falling a little more every day into dictatorship by establishing a reign of terror. Guillaume Bigot is not mistaken, the military junta also pursues other objectives because “this arrest is also a way to challenge and test our country», he rightly analyzes, at a time when France’s decision to recognize the Moroccan nature of the Sahara has made the septuagenarians, octogenarians and nonagenarians who govern Algeria hysterical.
Indeed, denounces the RN deputy, “for how many decades have we pretended not to see that this regime despises us and despises our weakness», undoubtedly referring to the numerous provocations of the military junta against France in recent years. Examples abound, starting with the about-faces made by the presidency of the country in order to perpetuate ad vitam aeternam its sacrosanct memorial annuity, the incessant reminders of its ambassador in Paris to show its anger, and even its interference in the internal affairs of France when the Algerian government issued a press release denouncing the poor treatment of its fellow Algerian citizens on French soil following the death of young Nahel.
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«It’s time for the guilt to change sides», thunders Guillaume Bigot. And to do this, the MP presents a relentless strategy which aims to confront senior Algerian dignitaries who have interests in France with their hypocrisy and their double talk. The latest example, cited by the MP, is the newly appointed Algerian Minister of Information, Mohamed Meziane, one of the most vehement spokespersons for the anti-France discourse in Algeria, two of whose children are educated in Parisian universities.
But Mohamed Meziane, whose ministry controls the APS, to whom we owe the violent and burlesque dispatch from the APS announcing the arrest of “puppet of anti-Algerian revisionism», Boualem Sansal, and castigating France «macronito-zionist”, is far from being the only example of this hypocritical double-speak. And Guillaume Bigot puts his foot in the dish by questioning the number of high dignitaries of the Algerian regime who have dual nationality, “of leaders of the Algerian regime» who seek treatment in French hospitals or even «ill-gotten gains by those responsible for this iniquitous regime who are in Paris“. To all these unnatural examples, Guillaume Bigot provides a solution and calls for a firm reaction: suspend visas, or at least threaten to do so, as well as transfers of funds between the two countries.
Otherwise, the absence of a firm reaction from the French government would raise a fundamental question, believes the MP: “QWhat is the protection of a French passport worth?
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