“Glorifying such a criminal is an insult for us and for all French people who believe in the values of the republic and the humanist values of our country France”.
This Sunday at 4 p.m., at the call of the Algerian collective of France, a demonstration is organized at 103 rue Bugeaud in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon.
The objective is to convince Mayor Grégory Doucet to rename the street which bears the name of Thomas Robert Bugeaud, known for his massacres committed in Algeria in the 19th century.
“We are the children of the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who were axphixiated and burned alive by Marshal of France Thomas Bugeaud”announce the demonstrators, who are campaigning for the axis located near the Algerian consulate to take the name of the street of October 17, 1961 “in tribute to the 297 Algerians and Franco-Algerians who were murdered and drowned by Maurice Papon and colonial France”.
This demonstration takes place in a tense geopolitical context between France and Algeria, but also in the arrests of several Algerian influencers suspected of spreading hate messages on social networks.
A street on borrowed time
As a reminder, Grégory Doucet had recently announced that he was in favor of rue Bugeaud being renamed. In the coming weeks, the City of Lyon must set up a committee made up of experts to take an inventory of problematic streets, monuments, statues and plaques, and propose solutions for each.
The Algerian Union, an association of the diaspora of the Maghreb country in France, had for its part announced to file a complaint against Grégory Doucet for advocating war crimes and crimes against humanity, proposing that rue Bugeaud become rue Camille Blanc, mayor of ‘Evian-les-Bains, assassinated in 1961 by the OAS while campaigning for peace in Algeria.
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