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Algerian War: France recognizes the assassination of Ali Boumendjel

2021-03-03T05:04:21.325Z


This Algerian activist was thrown from the sixth floor of a building by the French army, after his arrest, in order to make up his death.


“Ali Boumendjel did not commit suicide.

He was tortured and then murdered.

"To his family first, then by a press release sent Tuesday evening, Emmanuel Macron acknowledged the responsibility of the French army in the assassination of this former lawyer and Algerian activist, who died in 1957 at the age of 37 years old and whose death had been disguised as suicide.

If France's responsibility for this death is not new - Commander Paul Aussaresses himself had recognized it in his memoirs published in 2001 - its recognition by France was a request from Algeria and the Algerian community.

It was part of one of the measures mentioned in Benjamin Stora's report on the memory of colonization and the Algerian war, given to Emmanuel Macron in January.

"Give all the families of the missing the means to know the truth"

Lawyer, Ali Boumendjel was committed against colonialism and for the independence of Algeria until integrating, in 1955, the National Liberation Front (FLN).

In 1957, during the battle of Algiers, opposing the Algerian nationalists to the French army, Ali Boumendjel "was arrested, placed in solitary confinement, tortured, then assassinated on March 23, 1957", writes the Elysee in its press release.

The activist is then thrown from a window on the sixth floor of a building to make up his death in suicide.

In its press release, the Elysee says it wants to go further.

Emmanuel Macron has the “will to continue the work started for several years to collect the testimonies, to encourage the work of historians by the opening of the archives, in order to give to all the families of the disappeared, on both sides of the Mediterranean, the means to know the truth.

"And the Palace concluded:" No crime, no atrocity committed by anyone during the Algerian War can be excused or concealed.

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Source: leparis

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