This Sunday, November 24, in the weekly France 5 program “C Politique”, the historian Sébastien Ledoux and Nedjib Sidi Moussa spoke about the arrest of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, last November 16 in Algeria , but also on the controversies surrounding the new novel by his compatriot Kamel Daoud, winner of the Prix Goncourt. The opportunity for a trial into extreme right-wing drift timidly countered on the set.
We have the discomforts that we can… or that we choose. This Sunday, November 24, on the set of “C Politique”, weekly broadcast of France 5, those of the historian Sébastien Ledoux and the doctor in political science Nedjib Sidi Moussa, were clearly not sparked by the incarceration in Algeria of Boualem Sansal or the death threats and insults aimed at his colleague Kamel Daoud .
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Without going so far as to justify the incarceration of the first and the censorship to which the second's book is subject in Algeria, these two high-minded consciences were especially moved by the so-called extreme right-wing excesses of the two Franco-Algerian writers.
A very bad trial
Looking straight, jaw clenched, Nedjib Sidi Moussa took it upon himself to execute the imprisoned Sansal, whom he denies was a man of the Enlightenment: “ It fuels a far-right discourse made of hostility towards immigrants and Muslims, it takes up all the themes of Éric Zemmour. »
Softer in expression, Sébastien Ledoux, the misnamed, still added a good swipe to the charge: “Yes, it’s more the extreme right [qui traite du] theme of the decline of France, of Islamic separatism as [de] colonial rehabilitation. »
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Far from dissociating himself from the bad trial brought by two prosecutors with routine decolonial prose, Benjamin Stora was similarly very timid in defending Boualem Sansal and Kamel Daoud. We summarize the tangled remarks of a historian who has nevertheless been regularly the subject of Algiers' vindictiveness: we must not offend too much the still raw sensitivity of the people… Well, of the Algerians.
Because the French should above all continue to abjure their faults (collaboration, then colonialism, etc.), Nedjib Sidi Moussa and Sébastien Ledoux learnedly explained to us. A duo of lawyers to avoid in the event of a problem in a dictatorship.
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