The publisher and the lawyer in France of the 80-year-old author, arrested in Algeria a month ago for endangering the security of power, expressed their concern Monday, December 16 in the evening during a support evening organized in a Paris theater.
Boualem Sansal is “a man who is not well”, alerted his French lawyer, François Zimeray, on Monday evening, December 16, during a support evening in a Paris theater, before announcing to the audience: “Boualem has just been transferred again to Mustapha hospital, and the biopsies that were performed are not good. So I am launching an appeal, and I will have the opportunity to do so in other forms, to the Algerian authorities to demonstrate, quite simply, humanity in this matter.”
“We learned very recently, this morning, that at his request, he was again placed today in a prison care unit,” said Boualem Sansal’s editor, Antoine Gallimard, on stage. A unit which is located within a hospital in Algiers, he specified. It is “the second time, and at his request. So what can we understand? In any case, they [les responsables qui encadrent sa détention, ndlr] understood that his health is also fragile and that his disappearance would be very serious, for them too,” he continued.
Several hundred people attended this evening to show their support for the Franco-Algerian writer, imprisoned in Algeria since mid-November for endangering state security. The 2024 Goncourt Prize writer, Kamel Daoud, and the former French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, took one another on stage Monday evening to ask “immediate release” of the writer.
Criticism of Algerian power
On December 11, during a press conference in Paris, Boualem Sansal’s French lawyer, François Zimeray, denounced the transfer of his client, aged 80, to Koléa prison, approximately 35 km from Algiers, without the defense or the family being notified in advance.
Critic of Algerian power, the author of Barbarian Oath et 2084: the end of the world was arrested at Algiers airport on November 16. He is being 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”. A court in Algiers rejected his request for provisional release, the Algerian daily said The Watan.
According to the world, the Algerian government could have taken Sansal’s statements to the French media badly Borders, reputed to be far-right, which take up Morocco’s position according to which the country’s territory was truncated under French colonization for the benefit of Algeria.
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