“I no longer have any hope of seeing him again”: the distress of the grandmother of Christophe Gleizes, imprisoned in Algeria

On Wednesday it will be five hundred days. On June 29, 2025, Christophe Gleizes was sentenced to seven years in prison in Algeria for “apology of terrorism” and “possession of publications for the purpose of propaganda harming the national interest”. Unfounded accusations against the So Foot reporter which plunged his family into deep distress, including his grandmother Georgette Belle.

Aged 102, the latter shared her sadness in the columns of La Dépêche du Midi. “I would like to see Christophe before I die, but I am very tired. At the age I am, I know my days are numbered. I no longer have any hope of seeing him again,” regrets Georgette Belle. “It would take a miracle. Miracles only exist in Lourdes. And again,” she fears.