“My brother Sansal is behind bars, like the whole of Algeria” | EUROtoday

Mhis good friend, the Algerian author Boualem Sansal, was arrested. I knew it little by little, I refused to understand it on the similar tempo. I discovered about it from associates first. The proof disguises itself as concern. Repetitive calls, questions and messages like this “ he no longer responds » were spinning in a loop, like pebbles in our void. I was in a French town to “sign”, “to speak”. Night fell in a short time and I struggled to come back again to actuality, to emerge. I could not consider it. Would they dare? For every week, defamations, assaults, insults and trials have been raining down from the brand new Algeria.

“ Being a author and an Algerian are two tough jobs “, I typically repeated to listeners. This made the room giggle. Sometimes I laughed too…