{"id":33776,"date":"2021-10-17T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/?p=33776"},"modified":"2021-10-17T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T16:32:00","slug":"how-a-massacre-of-algerians-in-paris-was-covered-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/en\/how-a-massacre-of-algerians-in-paris-was-covered-up\/","title":{"rendered":"How a massacre of Algerians in Paris was covered up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\"><b>It was a miracle I was not thrown into the Seine,&#8221; Algerian Hocine Hakem recalled about an infamous but little-known massacre in the French capital 60 years ago.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">Around 30,000 Algerians had taken to the streets of Paris in a peaceful protest against a curfew, and calling for independence nearly seven years into the war against French rule in North Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">The police killed hundreds of protesters and dozens of others were thrown into the River Seine, making it one of the darkest pages of France&#8217;s chequered colonial history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">Mr Hakem was 18 at the time and was\u00a0<a class=\"bbc-n8oauk e1cs6q200\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humanite.fr\/17-octobre-1961-je-ne-sais-pas-par-quel-miracle-mais-je-nai-pas-ete-jete-la-seine\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"telling his story to the L'Humanit\u00e9 newspaper decades after the event, external\">telling his story to the L&#8217;Humanit\u00e9 newspaper decades after the event<\/a>, which was little reported at the time. He was among about 14,000 Algerians arrested during the operation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">The government of the day censored the news, destroyed many of the archives and prevented journalists from investigating the story. Contemporary news bulletins reported three deaths, which included a French national. It was not covered in the international press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">Brigitte La\u00een\u00e9, who was a curator at the Parisian archives,\u00a0<a class=\"bbc-n8oauk e1cs6q200\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europe1.fr\/societe\/17-octobre-1961-un-temoignage-cle-503406\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"said in 1999, external\">said in 1999<\/a>\u00a0that some official documents survived revealing the extent of the killings. &#8220;There were a lot of bodies. Some with the skulls crushed, others with shotguns wounds,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">One photo captured the chilling sentiments of the time, showing graffiti scrawled along a section of the Seine&#8217;s embankment saying: &#8220;Here we drown Algerians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">This is the title of French historian Fabrice Riceputi&#8217;s new book which details how one man &#8211; researcher Jean-Luc Einaudi &#8211; tirelessly sought to gather eyewitness testimony, publishing his account 30 years after the police massacre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">It is now believed that between 200 and 300 Algerians were killed that day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">A total of 110 bodies washed up on the banks of the River Seine over the following days and weeks . Some were killed then dumped, while others were injured, thrown into the cold waters and left to drown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">The youngest victim was Fatima Beda. She was 15 and her body was found on 31 October in a canal near the Seine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<h2 id=\"AntiArab-racism\" class=\"bbc-1p0kguj e14hemmw0\">Anti-Arab racism<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">One of the earliest descriptions of the event was published in 1963 by African-American writer William Gardner Smith in his novel Stone Face &#8211; though it is a fictionalised account, which has never been translated into French.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">It shows the stark anti-Arab racism of the day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-1ka88fa e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<figure class=\"bbc-1qdcvv9 e6bmn90\">\n<div class=\"bbc-172p16q e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"bbc-172p16q e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"bbc-189y18v e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"bbc-997y1y e1whu0\" data-e2e=\"image-placeholder\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-bbci-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org\/ii\/AW\/s\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/25D0\/production\/_121108690_gettyimages-671050274.jpg\" alt=\"The security forces seen in Paris as Algerians gathered to protests on 17 October 1961\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"bbc-1s1cxbv etq3yw90\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"bbc-1gnhmg2 e1yt7oin0\">IMAGE SOURCE,<\/span>GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-3edg7g e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"bbc-1ad1xej eede9f50\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"bbc-1gnhmg2 e1yt7oin0\">Image caption,<\/span>About 30,000 Algerians came into Paris to protest about the curfew which they said was racist<\/figcaption><div class=\"bbc-172p16q e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"bbc-3edg7g e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">Mr Riceputi believes the French state is still refusing to face up to this racist heritage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">As the 60th anniversary of the killing approached, the often testy relations between France and Algeria &#8211; which had been undergoing a slow rapprochement &#8211; have once more hit the buffers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">The spat began last month when France slashed the number of visas granted to Algerians, accusing its former colony of failing to take back those denied visas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">But it was an audience President Emmanuel Macron held with young descendants of those who had fought in the Algerian War that has prompted the most anger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">He questioned whether the Algerian nation would exist if it hadn&#8217;t been for French colonisers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">It may have been meant in the spirit of debate but it has provoked a backlash from Algerians who see it as symptomatic of France&#8217;s insensitivity and the cover-up of colonial crimes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<h2 id=\"No-apology\" class=\"bbc-1p0kguj e14hemmw0\">No apology<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">When it comes to the Paris massacre, the state has done very little.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">In 2012 Fran\u00e7ois Hollande recognised that it had happened &#8211; the first time a French president had done so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-1ka88fa e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<figure class=\"bbc-1qdcvv9 e6bmn90\">\n<div class=\"bbc-172p16q e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"bbc-172p16q e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"bbc-189y18v e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"bbc-997y1y e1whu0\" data-e2e=\"image-placeholder\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-bbci-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org\/ii\/AW\/s\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/73F0\/production\/_121108692_gettyimages-1176344603afp.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo (C) and the Secretary General of the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rachid Bladehane (2nd L) attend a ceremony on the banks of the Seine in Paris for the unveiling of a commemorative plate dedicated to the victims of the police repression of several hundred Algerians who demonstrated on 17 October 1961 against a curfew imposed them - 17 October 2019\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"bbc-1s1cxbv etq3yw90\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"bbc-1gnhmg2 e1yt7oin0\">IMAGE SOURCE,<\/span>AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"bbc-1ad1xej eede9f50\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"bbc-1gnhmg2 e1yt7oin0\">Image caption,<\/span>A commemorative plate dedicated to the victims of the massacre was unveiled in 2019 on the banks of the Seine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">In a statement to mark the 60th anniversary of the massacre, President Macron\u00a0<a class=\"bbc-n8oauk e1cs6q200\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elysee.fr\/emmanuel-macron\/2021\/10\/16\/ceremonie-de-commemoration-des-60-ans-du-17-octobre-1961\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"said that crimes committed under the authority of the police chief were &quot;inexcusable&quot;, external\">said that crimes committed under the authority of the police chief were &#8220;inexcusable&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">Yet both have fallen short of the expectations of those who have been calling for an apology and reparations &#8211; and neither acknowledged how many people died or the state&#8217;s role.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">French left-wing parties, who were in opposition at the time, have also come in for criticism for not condemning the massacre. They have been seen as complicit in the cover-up given that they filed a law suit against the police for opening fire on mainly French anti-war protesters, killing seven, a few months later, and yet remained silent about the massacre of Algerians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">Mr Riceputi says the racist nature of the operation cannot be ignored &#8211; every person who looked Algerian was targeted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-1ka88fa e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<figure class=\"bbc-1qdcvv9 e6bmn90\">\n<div class=\"bbc-172p16q e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"bbc-172p16q e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"bbc-189y18v e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"bbc-997y1y e1whu0\" data-e2e=\"image-placeholder\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-bbci-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org\/ii\/AW\/s\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/C210\/production\/_121108694_gettyimages-106507193.jpg\" alt=\"North Africans being arrested in Paris, France - October 1961\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"bbc-1s1cxbv etq3yw90\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"bbc-1gnhmg2 e1yt7oin0\">IMAGE SOURCE,<\/span>GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"bbc-1ad1xej eede9f50\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"bbc-1gnhmg2 e1yt7oin0\">Image caption,<\/span>Thousands of Algerians were rounded up and illegally deported<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">The campaign waged against Algerians in Paris was unofficially called the &#8220;ratonnade&#8221;, meaning &#8220;rat-hunting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">The search for Algerians continued for days after 17 October, with the police making arrests on public transport and during house searches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">It was reported that Moroccans had to put up the sign &#8220;Moroccan&#8221; on their doors to avoid being harassed by repeated police raids.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">Portuguese, Spanish and Italian immigrant workers with curly hair and dark complexions complained about systematic stop and searches as they were mistaken for Algerians by the police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">Researchers also say that it was not only the police and security forces who took part in the operation &#8211; firefighters and vigilantes were also involved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">Thousands were illegally deported to Algeria where they were detained in internment camps despite being French citizens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<h2 id=\"Fearsome-reputation\" class=\"bbc-1p0kguj e14hemmw0\">Fearsome reputation<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">At the time President Charles de Gaulle was in advanced negotiations with Algeria&#8217;s National Liberation Front (FLN) to end the war and agree to independence. The war ended five months later and independence followed in July 1962.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">But in 1961, tensions were running high and on 5 October the Parisian authorities banned all Algerians from leaving their homes between 20:00 and 05:30.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-1ka88fa e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<figure class=\"bbc-1qdcvv9 e6bmn90\">\n<div class=\"bbc-172p16q e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"bbc-172p16q e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"bbc-189y18v e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"bbc-997y1y e1whu0\" data-e2e=\"image-placeholder\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef-bbci-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org\/ii\/AW\/s\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/640\/cpsprodpb\/1681E\/production\/_121109129_gettyimages-1229132865.jpg\" alt=\"Placard saying: &quot;Here we drown Algerians&quot; seen at a remembrance ceremony to mark the 59th anniversary of the 1961 Paris massacre at the Pont Saint-Michel bridge over the River Seine in Paris, France - 17 October 2020\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"bbc-1s1cxbv etq3yw90\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"bbc-1gnhmg2 e1yt7oin0\">IMAGE SOURCE,<\/span>GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"bbc-1ad1xej eede9f50\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"bbc-1gnhmg2 e1yt7oin0\">Image caption,<\/span>It is only in the last 30 years that details about the massacre have come to light<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">The march was called in protest at the curfew. The organisers wanted to ensure it was peaceful and people were frisked before boarding trains and buses from the run-down suburbs to go into central Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">It has not yet been established what exact instructions were given to the security forces, but the Paris police chief at the time, Maurice Papon, had a notorious reputation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">He had served in Constantine in eastern Algeria where he supervised the repression and torture of Algerian political prisoners in 1956.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">He was later convicted in French courts of overseeing the deportation of 1,600 Jews to Nazi concentration camps in Germany during World War Two when he was a senior security official under the Vichy government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">It was this prosecution &#8211; that took place between 1997 and 1998 &#8211; that lifted the lid on some of the classified archives relating to the 17 October massacre, and paved the way for extensive research into the extraordinary cover-up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">Preliminary official inquiries into the events were made &#8211; and a total of 60 claims were dismissed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">No-one was tried as the massacre was subject to the general amnesty granted for crimes committed during the Algerian War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbc-19j92fr e57qer20\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"bbc-bm53ic e1cc2ql70\" dir=\"ltr\">For Mr Riceputi the hope is that this 60th anniversary will help with efforts to establish the truth and determine the responsibility for one of the bloodiest police massacres in France&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Source : bbc.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a miracle I was not thrown into the Seine,&#8221; 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