Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: October 17, 2021, 12:39:33 PM » |
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« edited: October 17, 2021, 01:44:33 PM by Filuwaúrdjan »
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Today is the sixtieth anniversary of one of the most shocking events in the history of postwar Europe: the massacre of hundreds of Algerian demonstrators by the Paris police. Most of the victims were thrown into the Seine and drowned; their exact number is not known. The man who ordered the massacre - the Prefect of the Paris Police, Maurice Papon - had only a few decades earlier enthusiastically participated, as no. 2 in the Bordeaux police under the Vichy regime, in the implementation of the Final Solution. He was never brought to book for the October 17th massacre, but was for what happened in Bordeaux. For this he served a grand total of four years in prison.
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