Emmanuel Macron urges Algeria to prison for the free writer because of Morocco’s comments
The President of France, Emmanuel Macron Algeria, urges the editing of a 80 -year -old writer who was sentenced to five years in prison, after accusations that he had undermined Algeria’s regional safety.
Boualem Sansal was arrested in Algeria last year after a French -right -wing -right media group had been informed that, during the colonial era, France gave many lands to Algeria and a few Morocco.
He also said that the disputed lands in Western Sahara were historically from Morocco.
During his detention, the French author spent the style of hospitalization due to health disorder.
His case raised a wave of support from intellectuals and politicians, including the Nigerian Nigerian Prize -winning author, Wall Swenca, the British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie and French officials.
Mayor He promised to deliver free copies of Sansal books to every 18 years in his countryAnd he says that the author’s judgment in Algeria is an attack on freedom of expression.
Meanwhile, the French president said at a press conference: “I hope that there will be humanitarian decisions on the part of the highest Algerian authorities to return him to his freedom and allow him to treat him for the disease that fights him.”
In February, Macron sent a flagrant warning about the writer’s plight, saying, “Boualem Sansal’s arbitrary detention, in addition to his disturbing health status, is one of the elements that need to be settled before confidence [between our countries] It can be completely restored. “
Boualem Sansal now finds himself in a deep diplomatic row.
A committee of his supporters in France said: “He has become a bid for the turbulent relationship between Paris and Jizon,” said one of his supporters in France.
Algeria was once a valuable French colony and fought a vibrant war of independence, and its sovereignty won in 1962.
Relations between the two countries have always been strained, but it reached the lowest new level in the past year, when France supported the demand of Morocco with West Sahara, as Algeria supports the Polisario Group fighting for the independence of the region.
Algeria responded to that slight by withdrawing its ambassador to Paris.
Three years ago, Algeria cut diplomatic relations with Morocco.
After the court’s ruling on Wednesday, the lawyer of Sansal appealed to the Algerian president, Abdel Alam Tebon, to show the “humanity” of the writer.
Sansal is famous for his anti -Islamic views and is an explicit critic of the Algerian government.
His critics say he is loved on the extreme right that displays their biases.
The high right -wing French leader Marine Le Pen Sansal described as “a fighter for freedom and brave opponent of Islam.”
He was reported at the age of 75, but his publisher Galimard says he was actually 80.
Sansal works, known 2084 – include satire on religious extremism that won the Great Dirt Award at the French Academy in Frankovone a decade ago.
His next novel, Vivre, will be published in May and tells the story of a selection of people who were chosen to colonize a new planet as the Earth approaches the end of the world.
Participated in additional reports from Marcus Erbi
