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L’Franco-Algerian author Kamel Daoud, columnist at Pointacquired a direct quote this Monday by bailiff to seem earlier than the seventeenthe Chamber of the Paris Criminal Court, specializing in press affairs.
It was deposited by the workplace of Me William Bourdon, consultant Saâda Arbane. This younger lady already pursues Kamel Daoud earlier than the Algerian justice since November 2024, and earlier than French justice since February 2025, for infringing her non-public life. She accuses him of being impressed with out authorization of his personal story, to jot down his novel Hourisprinted by Gallimard.
Prix Goncourt 2024, this novel which revolves across the character of Aube, slaughtered kids by an Islamist, miracle however mute, can’t be distributed in Algeria, attributable to a legislation prohibiting fiction on the “black decade” of the civil warfare, from 1992 to 2002.
A disputed sentence in an interview with Figaro
This time, Saâda Arbane initiates prosecution attributable to a sentence drawn from a protracted interview granted by Kamel Daoud to Figaro On April 3, titled “Algiers can file a complaint against Kamel Daoud in France”. The author declares exactly: “France cannot even protect Kamel Daoud in France, in Paris, and can do nothing for Boualem Sansal in Algeria. This is a demonstration of force: Algiers can file a complaint against Kamel Daoud in France; France cannot even send its lawyer to Algiers. »The director of publication of FigaroMarc Feuillée, is also prosecuted.
The young woman is not named in the interview, but “our client does not need to be cited, argues Me Bourdon. It is perfectly identifiable ”as a result of it’s the just one to have complained towards Kamel Daoud. This chance of unequivocal identification is ample in court docket, in line with “fixed case legislation”, underlines the lawyer.
Kamel Daoud, for his part, considers that Algerian power, with this direct quote to appear, “is confirming what we’ve got written”. While François Zimeray, the lawyer for Boualem Sansal, is prohibited from entry into Algerian territory, “the Algerian energy multiplies complaints in France”, to put it under pressure, by instrumentalizing, according to him, Saâda Arbane.
The hearing was set for June 13
An interpretation strongly challenged by Me Lily Ravon, from M cabinete Bourdon. “This sentence implies that Mme Arbane wouldn’t serve her personal pursuits however these of the Algerian authorities, for a false objective. »»
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The listening to was set for June 13. As a part of a direct citation, the alleged perpetrator of the offense goes into judgment with out the prosecutor deciding on the advisability of prosecution. The process, nonetheless, will not be so quick. Several hearings are typically crucial. The first, which takes place within the absence of the events on the trial, permits magistrates and attorneys to repair the quantity of consignment and the procedures of the process.
By then, on May 7, there shall be a primary viewers, there too technical, as a part of the primary grievance filed towards Kamel Daoud by Saâda Arbane.
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