the surprising justification of Rima Hassan after her vote against the release of Boualem Sansal

Rima Hassan justifies herself. After positioning herself against a transpartisan resolution in the European Parliament, which called for the release of the writer Boualem Sansal, imprisoned since mid-November in Algeria, the MEP felt obliged to explain herself.

On the social network According to her, presented “like a man of lights”the writer actually defends “extreme right identity theses”, “takes up the rhetoric of the great replacement” or “stigmatizes exiled people”.

She also contests the fact that it is considered “one of the greatest French authors” by the National Rally, even then “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 resonates strangely in the mouth of an elected official from France Insoumise, the party praising in its program the creolization of France and listing measures in favor of an expansion of the right to 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 asserts, in rather devious reasoning, not to oppose the release of Mr. Sansal, but to oppose “the exploitation that is made of his case”. The text of the resolution was put on 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 exploitation of the Sansal case for the purposes of interference and diplomatic escalation with a neighboring EU country is crude: for example, amendments were tabled to introduce the question of Algerian immigration, the case Algerian influencers or even the questioning of the EU-Algeria agreement.”