Algeria: The Massacre in Paris

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Sixty years after Algeria's independence from France, first-hand accounts of a traumatic 'birth of a nation': a female Algerian bomber who was part of the battle for Algiers; how the French military responded with brutal tactics; a massacre on the streets of Paris; and reprisa ...

"Paris massacre of 1961"  Transcription : https://www.patreon.com/posts/71-le-massacre-57884069 Articles :  France TV info https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/afrique/algerie/recit-le-17-octobre-1961-le-jour-ou-la-police-francaise-a-jete-des-manifestants-algeriens-dans-la-seine-a-p ...  Show more

The French colonialists who returned to France after decades in Algeria, the Catholic welcome when the British army was first deployed to Northern Ireland, plus the US nuclear submarine that went under the north pole, Britain's last battle in China in WW2 and the introduction ...

It is 50 years since the end of French colonial rule in Algeria.It came after a bloody and brutal war for independence.Hear the story of one young woman who joined the fight against France and paid a high price for her beliefs.(Image: An Algerian flag. Credit: Reuters)