Paul Teitgen, former secretary-general of the Algiers prefecture, revealed that Bigeard’s troops had thrown Algerian prisoners into the Mediterranean from helicopters and their corpses were nicknamed ”crevettes Bigeard” – Bigeard’s shrimps. And his commanding general, Jacques Massu, recalled seeing Bigeard torturing a prisoner with electric shocks. ”I said to him, ‘But what are you doing?’ He replied, ‘We already did it in Indo-China. We’re not going to stop here’.”
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The term Shrimp Bigeard (French: Crevette Bigeard) refers to the method of torture devised by French General Marcel Bigeard against the Mujahideen of the Algerian National Liberation Front and Army during the Algerian Liberation Revolution, particularly in the Battle of Algiers in 1957.
The method is to embed the legs of the victims in cement molds and leave them in this state until the cement dries, and then they are carried in military planes and thrown into the Mediterranean, where they die by drowning. The head of the Algerian Commission against Colonial Ideology, lawyer Fatima Zahra Ben Brahem, revealed that Algerian sailors and fishermen found these cement blocks with footprints inside.
This method was used by General Bejar as part of the psychological war against the guerrilla cells of the Algerian Liberation Front in the capital, which included the elderly, women and even children, and sometimes he tied the victim with his wife and children together before throwing them off the plane.
Bejar was assigned by the French leadership at the end of 1956 a mission Eliminating the battle of Algiers at any cost, and Bejar played a major role in practicing new methods of torture and excommunicating all repressive practices to achieve his military goals, until his name was associated with brutal practices and manifestations of torture during the liberation revolution in Algeria.
