“He is sick”: the daughters of Boalem Sansal call Emmanuel Macron to get his release

The two daughters of the Franco-Algerio Boalem Sansal writer, sentenced to five years in prison in Algeria, called President Macron to obtain his release as quickly as possible in a column this Tuesday, March 15 at the site of Figaro, while the diplomatic crisis is worsening with Algiers.

“After five months to wait, wait, to believe in the light of justice, now we feel obliged, such as girls (…) to contact you,” writer Nawal and knows Sansal to the President of the Republic, qualifying this request as “last moment.”

The crisis between Paris and Algiers continues to intensify

“I heard the call of his two daughters”, the head of the French diplomacy Jean-Noël Barrot in TF1 on Tuesday night. “And I want to reassure them. We will not set aside our efforts as long as it was not released,” he added.

Arrested in mid -November at the Argier airport, the writer was sentenced at the end of March to five years in prison for, among other things, attack the integrity of the territory.

“We had expected, until the end, that a grace, even discreet, restored the balance of things. We had believed that the Algerian President, aware of our father’s human and health situation, would listen to this call. But it is nothing,” repentant from the writer’s girls.

“Our father, Boalem Sansal, is 80 years old. He is sick. He is a writer. And he is locked up,” they emphasize in this gallery.

This call occurs while the diplomatic crisis between Paris and Algiers leaves more beautiful after a pause of only fifteen days, France decided on Tuesday to expel twelve Algerian consular agents in response to a similar measure of Algeria. As “the tensions between France and Algeria embrace the diplomatic games that escape us, our father stays there, hostage of a litigation that does not concern him,” punish the two women.

“Our father no longer has many strength, but he maintains this spark at the bottom of his eyes that, despite everything, continues to believe in the beauty of the political gesture. We ask him, Mr. President, to make this gesture.”