This Tuesday, like every July 5 for sixty years, Algerians celebrate National Independence Day.
The green and white flag will fly on the balconies and tributes to the
"valiant mujahideen"
who fought for freedom will be paid across the country.
For thousands of Pieds-noirs and their descendants, this feast day is a day of mourning.
Because on the first day of Algeria's independence, July 5, 1962, in Oran, approximately between 10.30 a.m. and 5 p.m., 700 people were killed during a hunt for Europeans, of which we will never know if it was spontaneous.
In France, this massacre was ignored for more than half a century and today, apart from a few wreath laying in some towns, no official ceremony is planned to salute the memory of these civilian victims of the war. from Algeria.
In January, Emmanuel Macron had however invited the representatives of the “repatriates” to the Élysée, for a speech in which, for the first…
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