“There were 30,000 of them from Bab El Oued, the bastion of the ultras of French Algeria, to reach the Grande Poste (…) Rue d'Isly, a cordon of riflemen had allowed themselves to be submerged by the human tide. The mobile guards who arrived as reinforcements threw tear gas grenades to disperse the crowd. In response, two shots were fired from a balcony. By who? Which building? The police are investigating
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Third and final part of a historical saga restoring the destiny of a Kabyle family from 1939 to 1962,
Of Ruins and Glory
begins the day after the shooting on rue d'Isly, which left 46 dead and 200 injured in Algiers center, eight days after the signing of the Evian Accords.
Lawyer at the Algiers bar, Adam El Hachemi Aït Amar, the narrator, is responsible for defending Emilienne Postorino, a European suspected of being responsible for the shootings which caused panic in the crowd and the subsequent killing.
It is for him a case of conscience that does not help…
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