“He was waiting for much more.”

Know Sansal, the daughter of the writer Franco-Algerio Boalem Sansal, waited “much more” from the French government to obtain the release of his father, he admitted this Thursday, August 28, ensuring “not seeing light at the end of the tunnel.”

“I expected much more” from the French government, he admitted during a support party for Boalem Sansal in Autun (Saône-Et-Loire) organized on the occasion of the summer universities of former Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer.

Domiciled in Prague and 51 years, he recalled that “he sent an open letter” in April with his sister to President Emmanuel Macron “and we did not receive any response” or from Elysée or Quai d’Orsay, he repented.

“Because I have not received any response from Algeria or the French government, I am a little desperate, disappointed,” Sansal admitted, with the welcome warmly welcome by the public who got up to applaud him.

“As Emmanuel Macron has a lot to solve, that does not concern my father, I don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel,” he deplored, recognizing that he had not received any news from his father since July.

At 80 and sick, Boalem Sansal was sentenced to 5 years in prison, particularly for “damages to the national unit.”

Tensions between Paris and Algiers

For his part, Jean-Michel Blanquer presented support to the writer Franco-Algerio as “a universal cause”, emphasizing the need to be heard not only in France “but in the world.”

“Freedom of expression is fundamental and if we give in to this, it means that we are ready to give in to the rest,” said the former minister, believing that it was “the confrontation between a dictatorial regime and freedom.”

Paris-Algiers: How diplomatic relations have brutally degraded

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At the beginning of the month, Emmanuel Macron said that France should act “with more firmness and determination” against Algeria, evoking the “fate reserved” in Boalem Sansal and Christopheizes, French journalist imprisoned in Tizi Ouzou.

Paris and Algiers have been entangled for more than a year in an unprecedented diplomatic crisis that has resulted in expulsions from public officials on both sides, the withdrawal of the ambassadors of the two countries and restrictions on the transporters of diplomatic visas.