Last night in CPolitique, public television hit rock bottom: while Boualem Sansal, imprisoned in an Algerian jail, could not respond, we will have organized – without the host protesting for a moment – your trial with arguments that have become the “Sans dot” by Molière: You are, dear friend, of the extreme right.
At the controls, a Benjamin Stora in his role, escorted by a Sidi Moussa, attacked you at leisure: For Stora, you committed the crime of having… “hurt Algerian national sentiment”.
For the doctor in political science, Nadjib Sidi Moussa, “To consider yourself a man of enlightenment, who defends great causes, is to be completely mistaken.” According to him, you would take up Eric Zemmour's theses by making a speech “hostile to immigrants and Muslims”, and we who support you would be… “blind or complicit”.
Decoding: They were against your imprisonment, as they had been against the assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie or the beheading of Samuel Paty. But tell me a little: Didn't the three of you look for it? Certainly, they conceded, their arguments did not justify your arrest, but they constituted… elements of debate.
Dear Boualem, This is how, in France, the public service dared to launch an indictment of a French writer arrested by a dictatorship. Many of us this morning are devastated and very sad. The lines are becoming clearer, and Benjamin Stora has shamelessly chosen his side.
Only one voice was raised, that of Rachel Binhas
Indignant reactions this morning
The author Joseph Macé-Scaron estimated that the show C Politique “plunged you into the mire”, with Kamel Daoud who had the courage to defend you. For Emmanuelle Ducros, journalist at L'Opinion, “There's no point in Algeria getting tired of doing your trial, it's being done on set in France.
