In his first public remarks since he was released by Algeria and returned to France, Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal said Sunday that diplomatic tension between the two countries was likely the cause of his arrest, and that he had always sought “reconciliation” between the two.
“I have always been in favour of reconciliation between France and Algeria,” Boualem Sansal said on France 2 pubic television Sunday night, suggesting that the two countries had “missed the boat” after the former colony’s independence in 1962.
