Oran, July 5, 1962. It has been three and a half months since the Evian Accords put an end to the conflict.
Among the Pieds-noirs, it's the save who can.
Because the violence against them did not stop with the armistice.
On the contrary, they have accelerated dangerously.
In “A State Silence: European Civilian Disappearances from the Algerian War” (SOTECA editions, 2012), historian Jean-Jacques Jordi reports: “
From March 19, 1962 to April 30, 1963, the French Embassy in Algiers lists 3,093 disappearances (kidnappings or arrests), including 306 people killed, 969 found alive and 1,818 individuals considered missing
.
Oranie did not escape this purge orchestrated by the FLN (National Liberation Front) and the ALN (National Liberation Army), its military component.
Orders from Paris
On July 5, the 100,000 Europeans in Oran (the boats and planes being stormed, not all of them could leave) therefore fear the worst.
Is right.
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