French president recognises role of state in death of Maurice Audin and admits ‘system’ of torture in war of independenceThe French president, Emmanuel Macron, has formally recognised that the French state was responsible for the death of a dissident mathematician in Algeria in 1957, admitting for the first time the French military’s “system” of torture during Algeria’s independence war.Macron paid a visit on Thursday to the widow of Maurice Audin, a French communist mathematician and anti-colonial activist. Continue reading…
Via: France admits responsibility for 1957 death of dissident in Algeria
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