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Macron admits French forces "tortured and murdered" Algerian freedom fighter
03.03.2021
French forces "tortured and murdered" Algerian freedom fighter Ali Boumendjel during his country's war for independence, President Emmanuel Macron admitted on Tuesday, officially reappraising a death that was covered up as a suicide. 
Macron made the admission "in the name of France" during a meeting with Boumendjel's grandchildren. The move comes after Macron stoked outrage in January when he refused to issue an official apology for abuses committed during the occupation of Algeria.
Instead, he agreed to form a "truth commission" as recommended by a report commissioned by the government to shed light on France's colonial past.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the easing of security restrictions on the country's archives of the Algerian war. It was hardly a dramatic move. Rather than opening up its war archive, the presidency has simply proposed new rules intended to speed up access. However, that it garnered column inches around the world goes some way in indicating just how controversial a chapter the war remains in both countries' history. 
In Algeria, the war remains a pivotal moment. It marks the point at which — successive governments have insisted — the National Liberation Front (FLN) delivered freedom to the people of Algeria and secured their role at the center of the state, a position now being increasingly questioned by protesters throughout Algeria. For the French, battered by German occupation during World War II and scarred by the recent loss of its territories in Indochina, the war and its conduct remains an uncomfortable legacy of an unloved and largely unacknowledged past.  

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What Macron doesn't get about colonialism
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French President Emmanuel Macron first went to Algeria as head of state in December 2017
In our series of letters from African journalists, Algerian-Canadian journalist Maher Mezahi reflects on the recent moves by France to repair relations with its former colony Algeria, especially concerning the bitter war of independence.
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Does French President Emmanuel Macron, really understand the legacy of colonialism?
I ask this in the wake of his recent admission - after 60 years of official denial - that the French army tortured and murdered the Algerian nationalist hero Ali Boumendjel.
This recognition came as part of a series of measures aimed at reconciling France and Algeria after more than a century of colonisation that ended in 1962, following an eight-year war.

Macron reveals more torture by French army in Algeria war
By ELAINE GANLEYMarch 3, 2021 GMT
PARIS (AP) — President Emmanuel Macron has met with four grandchildren of an Algerian independence fighter to tell them that Ali Boumendjel had been tortured and killed by French soldiers in 1957.
It was a further step in Macron’s efforts to reconcile France with its colonial past while offering an outstretched hand to Algeria, which France occupied for 132 years.
In a statement late Tuesday, the presidential Elysee Palace said Macron wants to give families of the disappeared on both sides of the Mediterranean “the means to learn the truth.”

President Macron admits French assassination of Ali Boumendjel in the Algerian war
Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged “in the name of France” that Ali Boumendjel, a lawyer and activist for the National Liberation Front (Front de Libération National—FLN), was “tortured and murdered” by French General Jacques Massu’s paratroopers in 1957, during the Algerian war. His execution was made to look like a suicide.
Portrait of Ali Boumendjel [Source: Wikimedia Commons]
Macron’s statement was published on March 2 by the Elysée Palace. The same day, Macron met with Boumendjel’s grandchildren. During the Battle for Algiers, Boumendjel “was arrested by the French army, placed in solitary confinement, tortured and then executed on March 23, 1957,” the statement read.

The national archives and the services of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Armed Forces will be able to declassify archives that are over 50 years old more quickly, which will reduce the waiting time for researchers who want to access them.

France to speed up opening of secret archives on Algeria War
By SYLVIE CORBETMarch 9, 2021 GMT
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron announced a decision Tuesday to speed up the declassification of secret documents related to Algeria’s 1954-62 war of independence from France.
The measure comes amid a series of steps taken by Macron to reconcile France with its colonial past and address its brutal history with Algeria, which had been under French rule for 132 years until its independence in 1962.
The French presidency said in a statement that archive services will now be allowed to use a new procedure to declassify documents from 1970 and earlier that were previously being held secret for national security purposes. This includes archives related to Algeria War, the statement said.

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In this Dec.14, 1960 file photo, armed French soldiers, foreground, face a shouting mob of Algerians at an entrance to the Casbah native quarter in Algiers. (AP)
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French President Emmanuel Macron announced a decision Tuesday to speed up the declassification of secret documents related to Algeria’s 1954-62 war of independence from France.
The measure comes amid a series of steps taken by Macron to reconcile France with its colonial past and address its brutal history with Algeria, which had been under French rule for 132 years until its independence in 1962.
The French presidency said in a statement that archive services will now be allowed to use a new procedure to declassify documents from 1970 and earlier that were previously being held secret for national security purposes. This includes archives related to Algeria War, the statement said.

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Emmanuel Macron is to allow access to classified national defence documents from more than 50 years ago, covering France’s war in Algeria and other files previously deemed to contain state secrets.
The Élysée said the move, a week after the admission that French troops tortured and killed the Algerian independence activist Ali Boumendjel in 1957, sought to balance “historical truth” with legitimate “national defence issues”.
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se classification for documents relating to the years up to 1970, particularly those pertaining to French colonisation and the Algerian conflict, was a key element in a recent report by the historian Benjamin Stora commissioned by the president.

France is to make it easier for researchers to access classified government files that date back more than 50 years, especially those relating to the Algerian War still a highly controversial chapter in French history which authorities have struggled to face.

French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered the release of long-secret documents relating to France's eight-year war with Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s, which ended with full independence for the African nation.

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron announced a decision Tuesday to speed up...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced a decision Tuesday to speed up the declassification of secret documents related to Algeria’s 1954-62 war of independence from France. The measure comes amid a series of steps taken by Macron to reconcile France with its colonial past and address its brutal history with Algeria, which had been under French rule for 132 years until its independence in 1962. The French presidency said in a statement that...

France to speed up access to Algeria war files

France to speed up access to Algeria war files

The measures come as part of efforts to speed up access for researchers to the documents and as France aims to reconcile with its colonial past.

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President Emmanuel Macron has admitted that French forces ‘tortured and murdered’ Algerian freedom fighter Ali Boumendjel in Algeria’s war for independence.
Mr. Macron made the confession “in the name of France” on March 3 during a meeting with Mr. Boumendjel’s grandchildren.
Mr. Boumendjel, a nationalist and lawyer, died in 1957 after he was arrested by the French army during the battle of Algiers.
His death was covered up as ‘suicide,’ but France’s Elysee Palace confirmed in a statement that Mr. Boumendjel was “placed incommunicado, tortured, and then killed on 23 March 1957.”

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Macron reveals more torture by French army in Algeria war
March 03, 2021 · 11:00 AM EST
French President Emmanuel Macron, right, receives a report from French historian Benjamin Stora on the memory of the colonization and the Algerian war, Jan. 20, 2021.
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President Emmanuel Macron acknowleged on Wednesday French troops tortured and killed Algerian independence fighter Ali Boumendjel in 1957.
Macron met with four grandchildren Boumendjel in an efforts to reconcile France with its colonial past while offering an outstretched hand to Algeria, which France occupied for 132 years.
In a statement late Tuesday, the presidential Elysee Palace said Macron wants to give families of the disappeared on both sides of the Mediterranean "the means to learn the truth."

Macron admits France murdered Algerian independence figure
By AFP - Mar 03,2021 - Last updated at Mar 03,2021
Algerian demonstrators march during an anti-government protest called by Algerian students on Tuesday in Algiers (AFP photo)
PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron has admitted for the first time that French soldiers murdered a top Algerian independence figure then covered up his death in the latest acknowledgement by Paris of its colonial-era crimes.
Macron met four of the grandchildren of Ali Boumendjel and admitted “in the name of France” that the lawyer had been detained, tortured and killed in Algiers on March 23, 1957, his office said Tuesday.

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