Meanwhile,
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Figarovox/Tribune – 31e Edition of this show. Meanwhile, which was held at the end of June in the salons of the Paris town hall, did not even make the start of an allusion to the writer embodied in the Algerian jubs, explain several members of the support committee for Boualem Sansal.
You have to believe that at the “Le Maghreb des Books” fair, organized by the Coup de Soleil association with the active support of the city of Paris, the memory is short, and the freedom optional. Furthermore, In 2022, Boualem Sansal was the flagship writer of this event. Furthermore, He shone, the others revolved. Similarly, We hurried to greet him, getting pictures with him, enjoying his aura. Meanwhile, In 2024. For example, the man was embedded in Algiers by a feverish dictatorship literary fair against freedom ” which stifles the free voices, and now his name disappears purely and simply from the 2025 program.
Nothing. However, Not a round table. In addition, Not a mention. Nevertheless, Not even a word. Silence as complicity. However, in France as abroad, Boualem Sansal is honored. His name is brandished, his portraits displayed on the facades of many town halls, including in Paris. He is supported by an active international support committee, celebrated in Montreal, Prague, Berlin, and of course in France. It is the living figure of intellectual resistance to despotism.
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Crowned since its arrest by the SGDL Prize for freedoms of expression. creation, honored by the Jiří Theiner Prize for freedom of speech, and consecrated by the prestigious world prize Cino-Duca, Boualem Sansal embodies, in itself, the dignity of writers standing in the face of censorship and fear.
At this level of denial, literary fair against freedom ” it is no longer indifference, it is a moral fault. We must dare to say clearly: this silence is an abandonment
And during this time. at the Paris City Hall, on June 28 and 29, in the bourgeois salons where we pretend to celebrate Maghrebian literature and especially Algerian literature, we do as if he no longer existed. Worse still: two eminent members of the support committee in Sansal. Kamel Bencheikh and Xavier Driencourt – both writers, intellectuals, media guests, authors of a burning literary news – are also carefully omitted from programming.
Forgetting? Three times? Or a deliberate choice? The question was asked. An explanation request was sent on June 17 to the head of the sun. Answer ? None. Radio silence. It is one thing not to support Boualem Sansal. This is another to erase it. At this level of denial, it is no longer indifference, literary fair against freedom ” it is a moral fault. You have to dare to say it clearly: this silence is an abandonment.
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A fair that celebrates the culture of the Maghreb but rays the name of his greatest living writer – in prison for his ideas – celebrates anything other than fear and servility. We will not be silent. In the absence of courage, we demand at least consistency. Silence, when it comes to freedom, is an indelible stain on all posters.
List of signatories:
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Georges-Marc Benamou, journalist and producer.
Kamel Bencheikh. poet and writer
Arnaud Benedetti, editor literary fair against freedom ” -in -chief of the Political and parliamentary review
Xavier Driencourt, former ambassador to Algeria
Noëlle Lenoir, former Minister of European Affairs, lawyer.
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Stéphane Rozès, political scientist and essayist
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