The past can be painful to deal with.
By recognizing
"the assassination by the French army in 1957
of the Algerian lawyer Ali Boumendjel
"
, the head of state Emmanuel Macron continues his policy of small memorial steps towards Algeria.
In 2018, the president admitted the responsibility of the State for the disappearance of Maurice Audin,
"tortured then executed or tortured to death by soldiers"
.
Crimes committed in a troubled period that the state took a long time to recognize.
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If the French army of the 21st century no longer has anything to do with that of the 1950s, the stakes of memories are still approached with caution.
The Algerian war was a trauma.
The fall of the Fourth Republic led, with the advent of the Fifth Republic, to a decline in the place of armies in society.
To these upheavals were added ethical questions about decolonization and violence.
“The question of the Algerian war was extremely sensitive within the military institution,
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