France says it's "very concerned" about the disappearance of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, who has not been heard from since he was reportedly taken into police custody upon his arrival in Algeria on Saturday.

President Macron joins calls for information about Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, missing in Algiers.

The French political class rose in defence of the French Zionist writer of Algerian origin, Boualem Sansal, and the uprising even reached the French President, Emmanuel Macron, who confided to his close associates that he was upset about what was happening to Sansal,

Alarm grew in France on Friday over the fate of a prominent French-Algerian novelist detained in the country of his birth, with his publisher urging his immediate release and President