Historians wanted Macron to call Paris massacre state crime
By DW
22 October 2021 |
11:20 am
On October 17, 1961, tens of thousands of French and Algerian citizens took to the streets to protest a curfew imposed in Paris and its suburbs. Dozens were shot, beaten to death or drowned in the brutal police response.
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