Boualem Sansal, 75-year-old Franco-Algerian writer, was arrested at Algiers airport (Algeria) for reasons still unknown. “He should be judged tomorrow, but under what conditions, we do not know“, worries his publisher, Jean-Marie Laclavetine. The former high official has been a stone in the shoe of Algerian power for 25 years and his first novel, The Barbarian Oathvirulent towards the authorities of his country. “We have lived for 30 years on deceptions, lies, a biased view of history. he said in 1999.
With his pen, he crushed Islamism and the flaws of the Algerian regime. “The richest in Algeria are the Islamists. They lived on racketeering for 12 years, they looted“, he said in an interview in 2016. A freedom of expression tirelessly exercised, until his arrest. Jean-Christophe Rufin, writer and former diplomat, said “caught in the jaws of a political rivalry between France, Algeria and Morocco”who made “a sort of symbolic hostage“.
France’s support for Morocco’s sovereignty in Western Sahara is very poorly received by Algeria, which canceled its visit to Paris in the fall. Faced with the concerns of the Élysée in the disappearance of the writer, the official Algerian press agency retorts that “Macron (…) defends a Holocaust denier who calls into question the existence, independence, history, sovereignty and borders of Algeria”.
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