Overview
- Boualem Sansal was freed from Algerian detention last week and is staying in Germany for medical examinations with limited communication after authorities retained his phone.
- No return date to France has been set, and his support committee plans to press the French embassy in Germany for direct contact while criticizing official silence.
- The Élysée is pushing a "dialogue exigeant" with Algiers, with a Macron–Tebboune encounter on the G20 margins under consideration but not confirmed.
- Core areas of cooperation remain blocked, including migration procedures as Algerian consulates have not been responding to French prefectures, alongside stalled security coordination.
- Unconfirmed talk suggests Macron could visit Sansal in Berlin or accompany him back to France, while some observers fear he is being kept quiet ahead of journalist Christophe Gleizes’ Dec. 3 appeal; Gleizes remains imprisoned on a seven‑year sentence.