During Algeria’s independence war of 1954-1962, which claimed 1.5 million Algerian lives, French forces brutally cracked down on independence fighters in the colony of Algeria, which had been ruled by Paris for 130 years.
Twenty-five year old mathematician Maurice Audin, who was an assistant professor at the University of Algiers, was a Communist anti-colonial pro-independence activist
In 1957 he disappeared. On 11 June of that year, French paratroopers had arrested Audin at his home, accusing him of harbouring armed members of the Algerian Communist party. Taken to a villa in the Algiers neighbourhood of El Biar, it was presumed that Audin was brutally tortured and finally shot, though the authorities denied any wrong-doing, refusing to communicate with Audin's family.
In September 2018, sixty-one years after Audin's 'disappearance', France's president, Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron, finally and officially, acknowledged for the first time that France had carried out systematic torture during Algeria’s independence war – a landmark admission about conduct in the conflict which ended 56 years ago and that has been shrouded in secrecy and denials.
Twenty-five year old mathematician Maurice Audin, who was an assistant professor at the University of Algiers, was a Communist anti-colonial pro-independence activist
In 1957 he disappeared. On 11 June of that year, French paratroopers had arrested Audin at his home, accusing him of harbouring armed members of the Algerian Communist party. Taken to a villa in the Algiers neighbourhood of El Biar, it was presumed that Audin was brutally tortured and finally shot, though the authorities denied any wrong-doing, refusing to communicate with Audin's family.
In September 2018, sixty-one years after Audin's 'disappearance', France's president, Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron, finally and officially, acknowledged for the first time that France had carried out systematic torture during Algeria’s independence war – a landmark admission about conduct in the conflict which ended 56 years ago and that has been shrouded in secrecy and denials.
During Algeria’s independence war of 1954-1962, which claimed 1.5 million Algerian lives, French forces brutally cracked down on independence fighters in the colony of Algeria, which had been ruled by Paris for 130 years.
Twenty-five year old mathematician Maurice Audin, who was an assistant professor at the University of Algiers, was a Communist anti-colonial pro-independence activist
In 1957 he disappeared. On 11 June of that year, French paratroopers had arrested Audin at his home, accusing him of harbouring armed members of the Algerian Communist party. Taken to a villa in the Algiers neighbourhood of El Biar, it was presumed that Audin was brutally tortured and finally shot, though the authorities denied any wrong-doing, refusing to communicate with Audin's family.
In September 2018, sixty-one years after Audin's 'disappearance', France's president, Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron, finally and officially, acknowledged for the first time that France had carried out systematic torture during Algeria’s independence war – a landmark admission about conduct in the conflict which ended 56 years ago and that has been shrouded in secrecy and denials.
Twenty-five year old mathematician Maurice Audin, who was an assistant professor at the University of Algiers, was a Communist anti-colonial pro-independence activist
In 1957 he disappeared. On 11 June of that year, French paratroopers had arrested Audin at his home, accusing him of harbouring armed members of the Algerian Communist party. Taken to a villa in the Algiers neighbourhood of El Biar, it was presumed that Audin was brutally tortured and finally shot, though the authorities denied any wrong-doing, refusing to communicate with Audin's family.
In September 2018, sixty-one years after Audin's 'disappearance', France's president, Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron, finally and officially, acknowledged for the first time that France had carried out systematic torture during Algeria’s independence war – a landmark admission about conduct in the conflict which ended 56 years ago and that has been shrouded in secrecy and denials.
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