Shock in France, Lamentations Over the Loss of Influence in Algeria

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.

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