Christophe Gleizes, a French sports journalist convicted in Algeria and sentenced to seven years in prison over allegations tied to terrorism glorification, has filed a cassation appeal seeking a new trial before the Court of Cassation.His mother, Sylvie Godard, has also sent a clemency request to Abdelmadjid Tebboune, as Emmanuel Macron, Reporters Without Borders, and French diplomats and lawyers intensify a public campaign calling the verdict excessive and unjust.The case, linked to Gleizes’s reporting on JS Kabylie and alleged contacts involving the Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylie, is straining France–Algeria relations while a solidarity poster hangs at the Bouches-du-Rhône departmental council in Marseille.