Boualem Sansal, the Mercenary Traitor: What “Victory” Can He Promise France When It Has Lost Every Battle Against Algeria?
✍️ BY: Maamar Gani
“Good morning France, I’m back. We will win.”
With this phrase—sent by Boualem Sansal upon arriving in Germany to his partner in the same sordid trade, Kamel Daoud—this traitor and rented mouthpiece, sadly of Algerian origin, once again reopened the door to painful, unsettling questions about the meaning of loyalty, the limits of freedom, and the nature of “struggle” when it turns into active service in the ranks of yesterday’s colonizer.
But the deeper and more laughable question remains: What on earth does Sansal expect to “win”? With what tools? And in what battle exactly?
France itself—the very France he returns to with pride—has acknowledged repeatedly that it has lost its traditional influence in Africa and suffered diplomatic and economic defeats at the hands of Algeria and other rising states. How, then, can Boualem Sansal promise a “victory” that even France no longer possesses the means to achieve?
Sansal and Kamel Daoud: From Literature to Serving as Instruments of Foreign Powers
For years, both Boualem Sansal and Kamel Daoud have chosen to align themselves with a superior, colonial tone—one that adopts the classic Parisian gaze at Algeria: a country supposedly “rebellious,” “ungrateful,” and in permanent need of “political correction.”
Instead of being voices for their own society, they have turned into voices exported to France, offering exactly what Paris wants to hear about Algeria.
This is neither “opposition” nor “critical thinking,” despite what Sansal and Daoud attempt to market to the gullible and the misled. This is a conversion into instruments of blackmail and provocation used against their own homeland in the service of a foreign state—always the same state that once colonized Algeria and now tries to recover lost influence through culture after failing in economics, politics, and diplomacy.
Where, then, is the “victory” in that?
Algeria, as President Tebboune Declared, ‘Does Not Kneel’: Living Examples of a Sovereign Diplomacy
When politicians and media voices in Paris demanded the rapid release of Sansal, the man spent an entire year in prison after Algeria’s judiciary handed him a five-year sentence.
Algeria did not treat the case as an oath of allegiance to France—but as a purely sovereign matter. That alone is a message: Algeria takes orders from no one.
When France attempted to impose a list of names for forced deportation of undocumented migrants, the aircraft arrived in Algeria loaded with individuals selected in Paris. Algeria’s response was unequivocal:
Entry refused. Plane returned—passengers and all.
A diplomatic moment unimaginable years ago, capturing the profound transformation of Algeria’s foreign policy under President Tebboune.
Then came the case of the two Algerian consuls mistreated and subjected to humiliating procedures in Paris. Algeria could have swallowed the insult. Instead, it responded as a state of sovereignty must:
expelling French diplomats and formally ending the era of privileged French treatment.
In March 2025, Algeria demanded a review of the agreements allowing France to use around 60 real estate properties in Algiers at symbolic rents—agreements long ignored by Paris. Algeria also cut the French ambassador’s residence from 4 hectares to 1 hectare, in response to the harassment faced by Algeria’s ambassador in Paris. In August 2025, Algiers responded again—firmly and symmetrically—to French restrictions on Algerian diplomats entering diplomatic bag zones in French airports.
France’s Defeats in Mali and Libya: Algeria’s Silent Triumph
In the Sahel, Paris sought to sideline Algeria and present itself as the central power in managing the security file. The result?
France expelled from Mali, its troops driven out, its entire strategy shattered, and Algeria emerging as the key actor—the one to whom the file naturally returned after France’s military approach collapsed.
In Libya, France tried to shape a government designed to fit its own interests, but it was Algeria that set the red line when its borders were threatened. It was Algeria that restored the conversation to a comprehensive political solution instead of French-inspired fragmentation.
In the economic sphere, French companies—long behaving as if they held permanent residency in Algeria—paid the price of a new sovereign economic era. Several were blacklisted for corruption or for failing to meet their commitments.
So what “victory” remains for France for Boualem Sansal to promise?
None. Not a single one.
Sansal’s Release: Not an Amnesty—A Humanitarian Gesture
Boualem Sansal’s release is neither a concession to France nor a bow to external pressure. France’s request was not even granted.
The release came at the request of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, as part of a broad humanitarian framework consistent with a more mature, more measured Algerian diplomacy—one that balances vital interests without rigid inflexibility.
A confident state reviews its decisions without compromising its principles.
Releasing this traitorous agent does not mean that Algeria has “forgiven” him, nor that it has erased his hostile rhetoric or forgotten his alignment with platforms that work against its interests, or his praise of Morocco’s positions regarding Maghreb history and geography.
It is, simply, the behavior of a strong nation, self-assured, unafraid, and uninterested in petty quarrels with a man who chose to be a mouthpiece for others.
And contrary to the illusions of some, Sansal will remain confined to Germany, not free to roam Europe as he pleases. His movement remains restricted. His anti-Algerian statements remain a red line. Germany understands this and will explain it to him clearly, for these are international norms.
Who Is Truly Winning?
What disturbs the francophone elite—those who feel alienated in today’s Algeria because it no longer resembles the Algeria of yesterday that served their ambitions—is that the country has become sovereign, confident, cohesive, and free from external control or Parisian approval.
They—and behind them Sansal and Daoud—must recognize that Algeria has triumphed over France in:
• enforcing sovereignty over deportation files
• redefining diplomatic rules
• reshaping the security equation in the Sahel
• shifting the balance of influence in Libya
• reducing French economic dominance
• and imposing full diplomatic reciprocity
So who is the real victor?
Algeria—undoubtedly.
As for Boualem Sansal, the greatest defeat a sold-out writer can suffer is to watch his homeland win… without him standing on its side.
He chose the wrong trench.
And betrayal of one’s country has never been anything but a profound, irredeemable defeat—
how then can a man who adopts the identity of the enemy, carries its weapons, and aims them at the chests of his own people, ever dream of “victory”?
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