Overview

• During a July 1 visit to Algeria, deputy Sébastien Delogu called for an “equal-to-equal” dialogue and criticized Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau’s confrontational stance.
• He omitted any reference to the detentions of writer Boualem Sansal and journalist Christophe Gleizes, both recently convicted and imprisoned in Algiers.
• La France insoumise publicly disowned his remarks as personal, protesting the detentions and demanding Gleizes’s immediate release.
• The party renewed its demand for Sansal’s liberation and exposed growing internal rifts over its approach to Franco-Algerian relations.
• The larger diplomatic crisis over Western Sahara sovereignty has continued to fuel reciprocal expulsions and visa suspensions between Paris and Algiers.