AWhen he had not given any sign of life for almost a week, the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, known for his positions against the Algiers regime and Islamism, was arrested on 16 last November by the Algerian authorities. His detention, confirmed this Friday, aroused indignation and sadness in the world of letters, as well as in the French political class.
But while France is saddened by the arrest of this whistleblower, awarded the Grand Prix de la Francophonie from the Académie française in 2013 and the Grand Prix du roman from the Académie française in 2015, the agency Algeria Press Service (APS) attacks “Macronito-Zionist France which is offended by the arrest of Sansal”.
“The comical agitation of part of the French political and intellectual class over the case of Boualem Sansal is further proof of the existence of a “hateful” current against Algeria. A lobby that never misses an opportunity to call into question Algerian sovereignty,” writes the APS in a press release, denouncing an “anti-Algerian and incidentally pro-Zionist directory” in Paris, composed of “Eric Zemmour, Mohamed Sifaoui , Marine Le Pen, Xavier Driencourt, Valérie Pécresse, Jack Lang, Nicolas Dupont Aignan”.
The parallel with Benjamin Netanyahu
Going so far as to draw a parallel with Benyamin Netanyahu, targeted by an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court, the agency wonders what France would do in the event that the Israeli Prime Minister “showed up at the Charles De Gaulle Airport. “Since Paris is talking about Law and Human Rights, complying with international law in the case of Netanyahu would already be a good start,” she criticizes.
A rather unexpected, but uninhibited, parallel between Boualem Sansal and Benjamin Netanyahu, to hit on Emmanuel Macron. The president had in fact said he was “very concerned” by the disappearance of Boualem Sansal on Thursday and the Élysée had assured that “state services (were) mobilized to clarify his situation”.
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“Macron who speaks of “crimes against humanity” in Algeria concerning French colonization, who admits the historical recognition of state assassination in the case of Ali Boumendjel, Maurice Audin or Larbi Ben M'hidi, pushing contrition to the point of sending its ambassador with a wreath of flowers to the grave of our martyr, defends a denier, who calls into question existence, independence, history, sovereignty and borders from Algeria! », protests the APS, referring to an interview of October 3 in which Boualem Sansal affirmed that “the entire western part of Algeria was part of Morocco” during French colonization.
These tensions further weaken diplomatic relations between Paris and Algiers, already strained since France supported “Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara”, a former Spanish colony claimed by the Sahrawi separatists, supported by Algeria.
