The Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, detained in Algeria, left the hospital recently to return to prison, said French Minister of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, January 28, Jean-Noël Barrot, during an interview in South -Radio. “Boualem Sansal left the hospital a few days ago and returned to detention in the prison where he is detained, around Algiers,” he added, adding that Paris was holding the information of the writer’s wife and that the French consular visit request was not granted by the Algerian authorities.
The minister added that he was “very concerned about his health” because the writer is “sick”. “He is in contact with his wife who sees him once a week, married with whom we are in contact, as well as with his lawyers. And this is how we have his news,” continued Jean-Noël Barrot .
Incarcerated since mid-November
Asked about his proposal to go to Algiers to chat with the Algerian authorities, formulated a few days ago, the minister replied: “I said that I was ready when the time came to take up all the subjects and Dimensions of our relationship, which I wish to see each other because it is the only way to render service to the Algerian people and the French people “. Jean-Noël Barrot also hoped “that a decision could be made as quickly as possible by the Algerian justice” about the writer.
Boualem Sansal, 75 years old, has been incarcerated since mid-November in Algeria and prosecuted under article 87 bis of the penal code, which sanctions “as a terrorist or subversive act, any act aimed at state security, the integrity of the territory, the stability and the normal functioning of the institutions “.
According to the French daily The worldthe Algerian power would have badly took declarations of Boualem Sansal to the French media borders, renowned by the far right, taking up the position of Morocco according to which the territory of the latter country was truncated under French colonization for the benefit of Algeria.