ALGIERS — The comical agitation of certain French political and intellectual circles over Boualem Sansal’s case serves as yet another indication of a “hateful” current against Algeria. A lobby that seizes every opportunity to question Algerian sovereignty.
The arrest of Boualem Sansal, a pseudo-intellectual revered by the French far-right, has stirred up the usual outrage merchants. The whole anti-Algerian and pro-Zionist crowd in Paris has sprung into action: Eric Zemmour, Mohamed Sifaoui, Marine Le Pen, Xavier Driencourt, Valérie Pécresse, Jack Lang, Nicolas Dupont Aignan and obviously Tahar Bendjelloun — his Moroccan friend who is recovering from sciatica due to excessive hand-kissing of Mohamed VI. They have all rallied to defend this revisionist who has gotten himself into hot water.
This hostile lobby has clearly had a rough week. You have to understand their position. First off, one of their protégés, Kamel Daoud, was caught red-handed, exploiting the suffering of a terrorism victim in Algeria to snatch “the Goncourt.” Next, their genocidal friend Netanyahu was slapped with an international arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Lastly, the other Gallimard writer, Sansal, gets arrested while spouting revisionist nonsense.
By the way, Sansal himself had been accused by writer Wassini Larredj of stealing his title and the plot of the novel “2084 The End of the World.”
This just shows how well the French publishing industry has picked its Algerian protégés when it comes to the fellowship of plagiarists and literary thieves.
“The French government must demand his immediate release,” said Eric Zemmour, a French citizen by decree, in support of his “friend,” Boualem Sansal.
President Macron, fresh from a sun-soaked Brazilian trip, where he had dismissed Haitians as “morons” (nothing new there!), says he is “deeply worried.”
The Macronist-Zionist France, so outraged by Sansal’s arrest (at Algiers airport), has yet to tell the world whether it possesses the necessary sovereignty to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he were to turn up at Charles De Gaulle airport! For a nation that preaches about Law and Human Rights, following international law in Netanyahu’s case would be a decent first step.
France under Macron is steeped in contradictions. Here is Macron, who acknowledges “crimes against Humanity” in Algeria during French colonization, who admits state-sponsored assassinations of Ali Boumendjel, Maurice Audin and Larbi Ben M’hidi, even going so far as to send his ambassador to lay flowers at our martyr’s grave — yet now defends someone who questions Algeria’s very existence, independence, History, sovereignty, and territorial integrity!
For a country that is so eager to pass memory laws at every turn, especially concerning anti-Jewish revisionism (Gayssot Law), shouldn’t France be condemning Sansal for trying to deny the Algerian Nation’s very existence? That would make a good subject for Benjamin Stora to study and negotiate!
In the end, every time anti-Algerian sentiment flares up, Paris blames Algiers for all ills, while Algeria always acts according to the principle of consistency.
The fact that they are accusing Algeria of suppressing freedom of expression, even as France holds Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram — a global platform for free expression — shows just how farcical this whole situation is, with Sansal playing the role of convenient puppet.
