Arms crossings continue between France and Algeria. After Emmanuel Macron's remarks calling for the release of the writer Boualem Sansal in front of numerous ambassadors, it is the turn of the Algerian government to respond.
On the other side of the Mediterranean, Emmanuel Macron's remarks during the ambassadors' conference on Monday did not go through. The head of state declared that Algeria “dishonors oneself“, by keeping the writer Boualem Sansal in detention. Algiers believes that the words of the French president “dishonor, above all, the one who thought it necessary to hold them in such a casual and light manner”reports Le Parisien, Tuesday January 7. “These remarks can only be reproached, rejected and condemned for what they are, a shameless and unacceptable interference in an internal Algerian matter”indicates the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release.
The Boualem Sansal case
According to the same ministry, what Emmanuel Macron considers to be a matter of freedom of expression “is not one under the law of a sovereign and independent State.” “It essentially concerns a challenge to the territorial integrity of the country, an offense punishable by Algerian law”insists Alger. Same story with other Algerian political voices. For the Front of Socialist Forces, President Macron's declaration would translate “a pathological contempt and the persistent incapacity of official France to accept its colonial past and to break with a paternalistic attitude”, cite The Parisian.
The French head of state had, on Monday, called for the release of the writer Boualem Sansal, calling him a “freedom fighter”, and claiming that he was “detained in a totally arbitrary manner” by Algeria. Boualem Sansal has been detained since mid-November for endangering state security. He was arrested when he arrived at Algiers airport. The writer had, some time previously in the chair of the renowned far-right media Frontières, taken up the position according to which the Algerian territory had recovered part of Moroccan lands under French colonization. A position which would have led to his arrest.
-published on January 7 at 7:38 p.m., Gabriel Gadré, 6Médias
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