The Algiers Court of Appeals set the date of the appeal trial of the writer Franco-Algerio Boalem Sansal, sentenced to five years in prison for June 24, especially involved in the integrity of the Algerian territory, according to the information obtained from the Bâtonenier of Algiers.
“The trial was postponed to June 24 at the request of the worried person to allow him to constitute his defense,” said Mehamed Baghdadi.
According to the Casbah Tribune site, the trial was scheduled for this Tuesday, exactly two months after the first instance of the audience.
Rolled since mid -November, Boalem Sansal, 80, was sentenced on March 27 to five years in prison, especially by statements in October in the “borders” of the French media, where he believed that Algeria had inherited under the French colonization of territories belonging to Morocco so far.
Paris “very concerned about his state of health”
On Tuesday, the head of the French diplomacy Jean-Noël Barot said that Paris still expected the Algerian authorities to consent in “a gesture of humanity” in favor of Boalem Sansal, who suffers from cancer.
“I am very worried about his state of health. He is an elderly man and is weakened,” said Jean-Noël Barrot in the Internet of Inter.
He said he expected the appeal judgment to be held “as soon as possible, if possible in the next few days, so that after this sentence, a gesture of humanity, which we call the Algerian authorities, could be removed from it.”
Algeria and France have been going through a diplomatic crisis considered one of the most serious since last summer since the Algerian War (1954-1962), marked in recent days by a new series of officials of public officials on both sides. All cooperation is frozen.
Until now, the multiple requests for release or presidential grace of Boalem Sansal de France, including President Emmanuel Macron in person, have remained a dead letter.
Source: BFM TV
