It is a “last momentum” for Boualem Sansal, while the diplomatic crisis takes up between Paris and Algiers. The two daughters of the Franco-Algerian writer, sentenced to five years in prison in Algeria, called Emmanuel Macron to obtain his release as soon as possible on Tuesday on the site of the website Figaro.
“After five months to hope, to wait, to believe in the light of justice, we feel now obliged, as girls (…) to contact you”, write Nawal and Sabeha Sansal to the President of the Republic.
A “hostage” according to his daughters
“We had hoped, until the end, that a grace, even discreet, would restore the balance of things. We believed that the Algerian president, aware of the human and health situation of our father, would hear this call. But it is not so, ”regret the writer’s daughters. “Our father, Boualem Sansal, is 80 years old. He is sick. He is a writer. And he is locked up, ”they underline in this gallery.
This call comes while the diplomatic crisis between Paris and Algiers leaves more beautiful after a lull of only fifteen days, France having decided Tuesday to expel twelve Algerian consular agents in response to a similar measure of Algeria. As “the tensions between France and Algeria embrace diplomatic games that escape us, our father stays there, hostage of a litigation that does not concern him”, castigate the two women.
The executive does not intend to let go of its “efforts”
“Our father no longer has much forces, but he keeps this spark at the bottom of his eyes which, despite everything, continues to believe in the beauty of the political gesture. We ask you, Mr. President, to make this gesture ”. “I heard the call of his two daughters,” reacted on Tuesday evening the chief of French diplomacy Jean-Noël Barrot on TF1. “And I want to reassure them. We will not let go of our efforts as long as he was not released, “he added.
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Arrested in mid-November at Algiers airport, the writer was sentenced at the end of March to five years in prison for, among other things, attacking the integrity of the territory.
