France's Macron admits system of torture during Algeria war
Source: Associated Press
Elaine Ganley, Associated Press
Updated 12:47 pm CDT, Thursday, September 13, 2018
PARIS (AP) French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday formally recognized the responsibility of the French state in the death of a dissident mathematician in Algeria in 1957, admitting for the first time the French military's "system" that included torture during Algeria's independence war.
Macron visited on Thursday the 87-year-old widow of Maurice Audin, a French anti-colonial activist who disappeared from his Algiers home after his arrest. He asked for her pardon, announced the opening of French archives on the disappeared and expressed hope a new era would dawn for often-bitter French-Algerian relations.
Audin, a French communist mathematician, was arrested in 1957 by the French military during the battle of Algiers. His body has never been recovered, but historians widely believe he was tortured which Macron acknowledged, a major break with France's official version of the war.
"The only thing I am doing is to acknowledge the truth," Macron told Josette Audin.
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bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Graduated from HS in 1957.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Good to know!