كتب الشروق أونلاين Shock in France, Lamentations Over the Loss of Influence in Algeria..اخبار عربية عبر موقع نبض الجديد - شاهد English Shock in France, Lamentations Over the Loss of Influence in AlgeriaMohamed Moslem English version Dalila Henache2025 03 2810The Algerian judiciary’s decision to... , نشر في الجمعة 2025/03/28 الساعة 07:33 م بتوقيت مكة المكرمة التفاصيل ومشاهدتها الان .
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Shock in France, Lamentations Over the Loss of Influence in Algeria
Mohamed Moslem / English version: Dalila Henache
2025/03/28
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The Algerian judiciary’s decision to sentence Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to five years in prison has ignited a frenzy in French political circles, prompting some to mock the “gradual response” of their Interior Minister, Bruno Retailleau, who has adopted escalating rhetoric against Algeria since the outbreak of the crisis.
After the French, led by the Interior Minister, had been demanding Sansal’s release even before his trial, they began to hope, following his conviction by the Algerian judicial authorities, that President Abdelmadjid Tebboune would intervene to pardon him, perhaps on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Independence Day, or Youth Day.
After the conviction, the far right went berserk, and they became convinced that France had been humiliated by Algeria because of its strong resistance to French pressure to release a man accused of harming the country’s territorial integrity and interests. This was a flagrant act of defiance unparalleled since the late President Houari Boumediene’s nationalization of hydrocarbons in the early 1970s.
This scene embodies the frustration expressed by David Lisnard, a member of the Boualem Sansal Support Committee, Mayor of Cannes, and President of the Association of Mayors of France, expressed his frustration, revealing the extent of France’s declining power and influence over Algeria, when he said that “France is not at all weak toward Algeria”.
The French, particularly those obsessed with the loss of the dream of a “French Algeria,” including the remnants of the Pieds-Noirs and the colonists, believed that concentrating pressure on Algeria, distributing roles among its officials, and employing the media apparatus controlled by the far right to target it would influence its decision-making sources and push it to release Sansal, is a blatant interference in the country’s internal affairs.
This pathological obsession among far-right figures has led them to shamelessly lie to the French. David Lisnard spoke of the leverage France holds to pressurize Algeria to release Sansal. He pointed to the debts owed by French hospitals to Algeria, which he estimated at €44.9 million. This figure was previously denied by French authorities, who claimed that the remaining debt does not reach €3 million and that the French side is the one that has yet to fully settle the remaining debt, even though the Algerian government has decided to prevent its citizens from receiving medical treatment in France from now on.
The French were unable to abandon their hollow and incredible threats, such as suspending visas and reviewing the 1968 agreement, as David Lisnard put it. This rhetoric has become commonplace even among the French themselves, because Retailleau and his Prime Minister, François Bayrou, talked a lot and did nothing. This observation was made by a minister in the current French government, based on what was reported by the newspaper “Le Parisien,” which spoke of the successive blows received by the Interior Minister of the Interior, Retailleau, without achieving a single notable goal.
What’s striking is that Retailleau had threatened to resign if the government did not comply with his iron fist against Algeria. However, despite weeks of empty threats, he decided not to resign, claiming that doing so would serve the Algerian authorities. This is a losing gamble, especially since he is betting on the race for the leadership of the right-wing Republicans’ party (LR) next May, in preparation for the upcoming presidential elections.
After French media were abuzz with his hostile and provocative statements against Algeria for several weeks, he swallowed his tongue after his friend Boualem Sansal was sentenced to five years in prison. Retailleau found no way to express solidarity with the “spy” other than retweeting a tweet from the President of the French Senate, Gérard Larcher, which read: “We don’t condemn free spirits. Boualem Sansal must be freed.” This is the only thing Retailleau can offer to Sansal (retweeting a tweet).
In an attempt to absorb the French anger over what they consider their country’s defeat at the hands of Algeria, due to the iron-fist policy pursued by their government, the language of discussion in French studios shifted from talk of Sansal’s release to expressing the concerns of his support committee that he would be subject to a decision to ban him from leaving the Algeria soil.
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