Is it because his compatriot Kamel Daoud has, in recent times, captured too much attention and light that Boualem Sansal, the other star colt of the publisher Antoine Gallimard, sought to bring back a little curiosities towards him? , wanted, for this, to dangerously tickle the patriotic fiber of the Algerian military regime, to deliberately take sides in favor of its Cherifian rival and thus position itself on the slippery curve of the diplomatic turnaround of the tenant of the Élysée?
The latter would also have recently offered him the grail, a gift in this case equivalent to a morocco, by offering him French nationality on a silver platter (third similarity with Kamel Daoud).
Now willing to settle permanently in France (4th common point), the author of 2084the end of a world suddenly discovered the virtues or qualities of a topographer by emphasizing that “when France colonized Algeria, the entire western part of Algeria was part of Morocco: Tlemcen, Oran and even as far as Mascara (…). When France colonized Algeria, it established itself as a protectorate in Morocco and decided, arbitrarily, to attach all of eastern Morocco to Algeria, by drawing a border. “.
Reported by the daily The World of November 21, 2024 such remarks redraw on the one hand the geography of two neighbors in total disagreement over the territorial claims of the Polisario Front and on the other hand are enough to suspect the writer of intelligence with the Moroccan enemy.
Returning from Paris on Saturday November 16, he was then arrested at Algiers airport by agents of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSİ) and has since not been able to give any news of him.
Physically fragile, Sansal will certainly have difficulty coping with the harsh interrogations following which he will probably have to answer to several charges, in particular that of “undermining the territorial integrity” of the country of his birth.
The addiction to verbal overbidding risks costing him dearly this time and it is certainly not the cathodic or media support of Xavier Driencourt that will be able to get him out of trouble.
The untimely interventions of the former French ambassador in Algiers risk, on the contrary, increasing the burden of the sentence as he campaigns for the removal of the advantages granted by the Evian Accords to Algerian nationals wishing to settle in the northern slope of the Mediterranean.
This inveterate detractor also finds fervent support among the activists of the National Rally (RN) and Reconquest. Laure Lavalette, the spokesperson for the first party in the lower house, will speak of “deviant agreements” and will speak on “X” in order to demand the immediate release of the newly incarcerated man.
The MP was first followed by Eric Zemmour, who sees the inhabitant of Boumerdès (a town located about fifty kilometers from the Algerian capital) as a friend and an “authentic freedom fighter”, then later by a Marion Marshal Le Pen inclined to defend a man who “never bowed to the Algiers regime (…) stopped warning about the danger of Islamism.”
To say that, in these shady and daggers drawn times, Boualem Sansal committed an blunder as serious as it was stupid, is not to support his potential jailers but simply to restore a little coherence to the heart of the anachronistic gesticulations.
Being against the confirmation and extension of the arrest of a septuagenarian, kept under arrest and incommunicado for too long, does not absolve him of his stupidity because at this moment defending the interests of Morocco at the expense of those of Algeria, in is obviously a huge one.
Saadi-Leray Farid, sociologist of art and culture
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