Paris-Sana
Sixty years after it occurred, French President Emmanuel Macron today acknowledged his country's responsibility for the horrific massacres committed in Paris against peaceful Algerian demonstrators on October 17, 1961, describing them as "unforgivable crimes".
Sputnik news agency quoted the French presidency as saying in a statement that Macron, while attending an official ceremony on this occasion in Paris, acknowledged that "the crimes committed under the authority of the Paris police chief at that time, Maurice Papon, are unforgivable for the republic."
It is noteworthy that on the 17th of October 1961, the French forces suppressed the Algerian workers who had gathered in peaceful demonstrations in Paris to demand freedom, sovereignty and independence, and attacked them with batons and shootings, committing a massacre against them that led to the martyrdom of hundreds of people whose bodies were thrown into the Seine.