The French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, detained in Algeria, was interrogated by the Algiers anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office and a preventive detention order was imposed on him, his lawyer François Zimeray announced to AFP this Tuesday, November 26, information confirmed by BFMTV.
Boualem Sansal, “who traveled to Algiers in confidence, is today detained under article 87 bis of the Algerian penal code, which punishes all attacks on state security,” writes Me Zimeray.
Tense relations between France and Algeria
“The deprivation of liberty of an 80-year-old writer because of his writings is a serious act,” “regardless of the insults invoked and the sensitivities offended,” the lawyer observed.
Boualem Sansal was arrested at Algiers airport on November 16. The writer arrived from France. His arrest comes at a time when diplomatic relations are particularly tense between Paris and Algiers, since France said last July that it supported the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara, a hotly disputed territory.
Source: BFM TV
