French
President Emmanuel Macaron acknowledged this during his visit to the
widow of Maurice Odin, who disappeared in the so-called Battle of
Algiers in 1957.
Odin was a university professor of mathematics at the University of Algiers and a pro-independence communist activist. He was the father of three children and was 25 years old when he disappeared.
He was tortured several days after his arrest at his home on suspicion of harboring armed militias.
"He died under torture, which was the result of a regime encouraged by the state when Algeria was part of France," the French presidential office said.It was then told to his widow, Josette, that he escaped while he was being transferred from one prison to another, although he was believed to have been executed.McCron acknowledged that his country had established a system that led to the use of torture during the period of Algerian resistance to independence 60 years ago. Although the French army generals had previously confirmed that their opponents had been tortured during the eight-year conflict, In which a French President recognizes that the State has facilitated violations.
The historian Sylvie Theinol said that the French state's recognition that Odein had died because of a "regime" encouraged by the state referred to a broader recognition of wrongdoing.
"By acknowledging responsibility for the disappearance of Maurice Odin, the state recognizes responsibility for all cases of disappearances in Algeria in 1957, which it has not recognized before," she wrote in the chat website.
McCron, the first French president born after the war, also announced the opening of an archive of records of the disappearance of civilians and soldiers, both French and Algerian, during the conflict.
During the war between 1954 and 1962, in which 1.5 million Algerians were killed, French troops repressed the brutality of the independence fighters in a colony ruled by Paris for 130 years. Hundreds of thousands of young French soldiers were recruited to fight in the war that left traces Deep wounds in France's national character, at a time when it was disappearing as a colonial power after World War II.
The French state has never acknowledged that its military forces regul
Odin was a university professor of mathematics at the University of Algiers and a pro-independence communist activist. He was the father of three children and was 25 years old when he disappeared.
He was tortured several days after his arrest at his home on suspicion of harboring armed militias.
"He died under torture, which was the result of a regime encouraged by the state when Algeria was part of France," the French presidential office said.It was then told to his widow, Josette, that he escaped while he was being transferred from one prison to another, although he was believed to have been executed.McCron acknowledged that his country had established a system that led to the use of torture during the period of Algerian resistance to independence 60 years ago. Although the French army generals had previously confirmed that their opponents had been tortured during the eight-year conflict, In which a French President recognizes that the State has facilitated violations.
The historian Sylvie Theinol said that the French state's recognition that Odein had died because of a "regime" encouraged by the state referred to a broader recognition of wrongdoing.
"By acknowledging responsibility for the disappearance of Maurice Odin, the state recognizes responsibility for all cases of disappearances in Algeria in 1957, which it has not recognized before," she wrote in the chat website.
McCron, the first French president born after the war, also announced the opening of an archive of records of the disappearance of civilians and soldiers, both French and Algerian, during the conflict.
During the war between 1954 and 1962, in which 1.5 million Algerians were killed, French troops repressed the brutality of the independence fighters in a colony ruled by Paris for 130 years. Hundreds of thousands of young French soldiers were recruited to fight in the war that left traces Deep wounds in France's national character, at a time when it was disappearing as a colonial power after World War II.
The French state has never acknowledged that its military forces regul
Combatants for independence also abused, according to observers, the treatment of prisoners during a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare and attacks described as "terrorist".
During the war, the government banned newspapers, books and films claiming to have used torture, and the atrocities committed by the troops after the war remained a taboo subject in French society.Macaron sparked controversy last year when he declared France's colonization of Algeria a "crime against humanity".
He then retracted what he said, calling for a "no-denial" approach to France's colonial history. "We can not remain prisoners of the past," he said.
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