Insufficient deputies vote against a resolution that asks for the “immediate liberation” of Boalem Sansal

It is unanimous for the rebels. This Tuesday, May 6, 28 deputies of the Parliamentary Group of France Insumise (LFI): the new Popular Front voted against the European Resolution proposal that asks for the immediate and unconditional liberation of Boalem Sansal.

During the first public session that took place this afternoon at the National Assembly, 335 votes spoke with 307 for, 28 against and 4 abstention. The text was adopted.

Among the opponents is the leader of deputies LFI Mathilde Panot, the deputy of Val-de-Marne Louis Boyard, the deputy of Marseille Manuel Bompard, the northern deputy, David Guiraud or the deputy of the Rhône Gabriel Amard.

Encreated since November in Algeria, Boalem Sansal, 80, was sentenced to five years in prison by the Criminal Court of Dar El Beida, in Algiers, on March 27. The Franco-Algerio writer was prosecuted for several positions, in particular “damage to the national unity, an indignation with a constituted body, practices that probably damage the national economy and the arrest of the videos and the publications and publications of the security of security security.

“Pity”

In response to the vote of the rebel of France, former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal denounced in X a “shameful position.” “For many months, our compatriot Boalem Sansal has been a prisoner for the authoritarian regime of Algiers. In man, it is the freedom of expression that is imprisoned and the values ​​of France taken as hostages,” he wrote.

For his part, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleu tried that the rebel France “once darker in indignity and dishonor.”

During the examination of the text this afternoon, deputy Lfiéric Coquerel, supported under the applaud by his parliamentary group, prompted that the resolution proposal was “a means to instrumentalize the Boalem Sansal” and “set accounts with Algeria”.

“We have no things with Algiers under threat, blackmail and confrontation,” he said.

In France, the case experienced a great impact, the Boalem Sansal was supported by many personalities. Hundreds of people met on March 25 in Paris before the National Assembly in support of the Franco-Algerio writer, including the presidents of the Assembly and the Senate Yaël Braun-Pivet and Gérard Larcher and Interior Minister Bruno Retilleau.