AA / Tunisia / Fatma Ben Amor
The French National Assembly on Thursday morning approved a proposed resolution “condemning the bloody and murderous repression of the Algerians committed by the Prefect of Police, Maurice Papon, on October 17, 1961, in Paris.”
“Here are the results: Voters 82, 78, majority 40, 67 to 11. The National Assembly has made a decision,” Naima Muchu, third vice-president of the National Assembly, said at the end of the vote.
The 11 MPs who voted against all come from the ranks of the National Rally (RN), according to Le Figaro.
The text, carried by Les Verts MEP (EELV / NUPES) of Aux-des-Seins, Sabrina Sebayh, “wants” also to “inscribe the commemoration of this massacre” on the “national calendar”. Days and Official Ceremonies”.
On October 17, 1961, thousands of Algerians who responded to a call by the National Liberation Front Federation (FLN) in France to peacefully demonstrate against the curfew imposed on them in the French capital were violently repressed.
That night and the following days, police forces beat, shot or threw him into the Seine. The drama was initially suppressed by politicians and police, censored in the media, then hidden. “For several decades, the official number was three dead. Today, 48 people died on this October night alone, even if many historians put it at more than a hundred,” France 24 points out.
Maurice Papon never accepted responsibility. The French justice system, which condemned him for his role in the deportation of Jews during World War II, never tried him for the October 1961 massacre.
On October 17, 2022, the 61st anniversary of that tragic date, French President Emmanuel Macron once again condemned the massacre.
“In Paris, 61 years ago, the repression of a demonstration by Algerian independence activists left hundreds injured and dozens of people dead. An unforgivable crime for the republic,” he wrote on X.
Source: AA
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