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Wednesday, 27 November 2024 - Strasbourg

The arrest of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal and the call for his immediate and unconditional release, and the repression of freedom of speech in Algeria (debate)
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  Nikos Papandreou (S&D). – Mr President, we have here a country that has all the possibilities of being a European country: a very high education/literacy rate, a powerful industry based on energy, very close to France – but I would say a schizophrenic relationship with France. In the daytime it's the revolution, at night it's quoting Anatole France. So that relationship we have to exploit, we have to make sure that, given their power, given the ancientness of this government, they follow the rule of law that Europe proposes.

And I would like to remind those people there that in 1953, the original document of revolution was written by a writer, and today they put Sansal in jail, a writer. So go back to your values of 1953 and apply them today in 2024, and we will be with you.

 
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