LE FIGARO. - The president recognized Saturday the “inexcusable crimes” committed according to him by the Republic against the Algerian demonstrators, on October 17, 1961 in Paris. Why did he say this?
Jean SEVILLIA. -
These comments must be placed in a broader context.
Emmanuel Macron had already announced that he would take into account the recommendations of the Stora report, published in January 2021, on the harkis, the events of October 17, 1961, and the anniversary of the Evian agreements, in March 2022.
To read also "October 17, 1961: the causes of the tragedy"
The logic of the President of the Republic is mysterious, he does things "at the same time".
On the one hand, it pays homage to the harkis - victims of a real injustice -, insists on the need to give them a place in the national memory and, on the other, it seems to give water to the mill of the official version of October 17, 1961, that of the FLN and friends of the FLN in France.
Where is the logic ?
I don't have the answer, and neither do the Algerian war specialists I meet.
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