For fear of being extradited from France to Algeria, Amar Saâdani, the former secretary general of the National Liberation Front (FLN) of Algeria and president of the National People’s Assembly, has apparently set his sights on Morocco to seek political asylum.
One has to believe, that a real wind of panic is blowing in Algeria among the former personalities targeted by the Algerian dictatorial regime to such an extent that in these settling of scores it is all-out savage and of the most characterized with regard to these eminences which flee the country, which one attends. Well-known names such as that of Mohamed Bédjaoui, but also members of the families of oligarchs imprisoned and cited in judicial inquiries are working to escape a possible arrest followed by extradition at least for those who would survive in the hexagon and surroundings.
As for our man Amar Saâdani, knowing that he has been in the crosshairs of Algerian justice since 2018, his concern grew crescendo after the arrest of the former Keeper of the Seals, Tayeb Louh in 2019. The man he is on could count being no longer in place, the latter now refuses to return home and has settled for a long time in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, where he owns an apartment.
Successive summons to listen to him from the prosecution, may well follow him to the land of exile, Saadani does not respond, to such an extent that he is then officially considered by the Algerian military dictatorship as being on the run. . His presence on French soil becomes dependent on a possible extradition, he finds a first refuge in Portugal before landing in Morocco for fear of suffering the fate of Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour arrested him in the Arab Emirates.
Much more than anything, the Algerian regime’s side would be blamed for the former President of the Assembly Amar Saâdani for his outspokenness when he declared in October 2019 in the Arab Emirates ” I consider, from a historical point of view, that the Sahara is Moroccan and nothing else. He was kidnapped in Morocco at the Berlin congress, I think that Algeria has poured enormous sums for fifty years to what is called the Polisario, and this organization did nothing and did not manage to get out of it. dead end “. He further advanced ” The relationship between Algeria and Morocco is bigger than this question “, Before pleading” I think that the Sahara issue must end and that Algeria and Morocco must open their borders and normalize their relations “.
Considered at the time as a cardinal principle of the Algerian state for having been a former third man of the state, these declarations had aroused the questioning of support for the cause of the Polisario and reluctance within the Algerian nomenklatura . Regardless of the sometimes dubious positions of certain political and even military officials outside official circles, it was a former secretary general of the FLN and no less ex-president of the AFN who had dared to throw a pavement in the pond on the issue. of the Moroccan Sahara. It had had an effect. Outrage! which the Algerian dictatorship has apparently not forgiven.
Also this exchange of good practices between Rabat and the former president of the AFN Amar Saâdani, if one can say so, is akin for the military regime of Algiers, to high treason, especially since ‘he intervenes at a time when Algeria says it is targeted by a “large-scale destabilization operation from Morocco”.
