Overview
- The Algerian presidency said President Abdelmadjid Tebboune granted the pardon after a formal request from Frank‑Walter Steinmeier.
- Authorities will transfer Sansal to Germany, where German officials will take charge so he can receive medical treatment.
- Sansal, 76, had been definitively sentenced in July to five years in prison on national‑security charges tied to his public statements.
- French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu welcomed the decision, as the case had strained already difficult relations between Paris and Algiers.
- Supporters cited his prostate cancer and longstanding ties to Berlin as reasons for the humanitarian clemency.