The Prosecutor’s Office of the Criminal Court of Dar El Beida, near Algiers, requested 10 years in prison against the writer Franco-Algerio Boalem Sansal, accused of violation of the territorial integrity of Algeria, said several Algerian media this Thursday, March 20.
The verdict will rule on March 27 in this trial presented against this intellectual, imprisoned since November 16 when he arrived at the Argier airport, according to the same sources, including the media media Echorouk and TSA.
The Sansal issue, which benefited from a vast impulse of support in France, has become a tension issue between Paris and Algiers, whose relations have been strongly degraded from the recognition in July 2024 by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, of an autonomy plan under the sovereign of Morocana for the west of Sahara, until he defines the status of the United Nations.
Prosecuted for “damage to the national unit”
Boalem Sansal is prosecuted for several positions, which include “damage to the national unit, composite body outrage, practices that probably damage the national economy and the arrest of videos and publications that threaten the security and stability of the country.” According to the accusation, the writer made comments that involved the integrity of the national territory.
According to the French newspaper Le Monde, the Algerian power took its statements in October of October in the French media, recognized by the extreme right, occupying the position of Morocco according to which the territory of the latter country was truncated under the French colonization for Algeria’s benefit.
Source: BFM TV
