Pierre Audin died on Sunday May 29 at the age of 66 following a long illness. He was the son of Maurice Audin, tortured to death by the French army during the Algerian war.
“He also wanted to live. Pierre Audin passed away, taken away by illness. What a sorrow to lose a friend, a brother, a comrade,” said Humanity journalist Rosa Moussaoui.
Professor of mathematics, scientific mediator at the Palais de la Découverte in Paris, he was best known for being the son of Maurice Audin, a 25-year-old young communist militant of Algerian independence, kidnapped in Algiers on June 11, 1957 and tortured to death by the French army.
All his life, Pierre Audin, had fought alongside his mother, Josette, who died in February 2019, to have France recognized as responsible for the death of Maurice Audin.
Emmanuel Macron had recognized in 2018 that Maurice Audin had “died under torture because of the system then instituted in Algeria by France”. He had also asked “forgiveness” to Josette.
It was not until the following year, in 2019, that the French state, through the voice of President Emmanuel Macron, recognized France’s responsibility in the disappearance of Maurice Audin.
Born in Algeria in 1957, Pierre Audin had waited 55 years to obtain an Algerian passport.
