Seventy years after the start of the Algerian War, France recognized, this Friday, November 1, its responsibility in the assassination of the man who co-founded the National Liberation Front.
Seventy years after the start of the Algerian war, Emmanuel Macron is taking a big step towards restoring the truth. The President of the Republic recognized this Friday, November 1, the 70th anniversary of the insurrection of November 1, 1954, that the leader of the National Liberation Front (FLN) Larbi Ben M'hidi was indeed “assassinated by French soldiers” in March 1957, in the middle of the battle of Algiers.
In a press release published by the Elysée, the President of the Republic “recognizes today that Larbi Ben M'hidi, national hero for Algeria and one of the six leaders of the FLN who launched the insurrection of November 1, 1954, was assassinated by French soldiers placed under the command of General Aussaresses “. Until then, France had never recognized its involvement in the death of Larbi Ben M'hidi, who had been disguised at the time as a suicide by the men who had tortured him. And this, despite the confessions, in 2001, of General Paul Aussaresses, who admitted to having hanged Larbi Ben M'hidi.
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