“It was with astonishment that I learned that the Algerian Consul in Nice, Ali Redjel, was organizing a conference today on the tragic events of October 17, 1961, in Paris. As a result, I sent a letter to him to express my perplexity regarding this initiative.
As the Deputy Mayor of Nice, I conveyed to him the distress of a number of my constituents regarding the organization of this event, which they consider a provocation, likely to generate tensions.”
Declaration by Robert Injey
Once again, Christian Estrosi is courting the FN (National Front) vote. After the authorization granted in April 2011 allowing OAS (Secret Army Organization) nostalgics to lay a wreath in memory of the coup generals, does Christian Estrosi intend to erase the date of October 17, 1961, from history?
On that day, a Parisian demonstration organized by the FLN (National Liberation Front) in favor of Algerian independence was bloodily repressed by a police force under the orders of Maurice Papon. The same Papon who was convicted on April 2, 1998, for complicity in crimes against humanity for orchestrating the deportation of Jews.
On October 17, 1961, Papon oversaw the massacre of a great number of Algerians, who were killed and thrown into the Seine.
Today, Christian Estrosi intervenes with the Algerian Consul in Nice to express his astonishment at the organization of a conference on the events of October 17, 1961. He informs him of the “distress of a number of his constituents regarding the organization of this event, which they consider a provocation, likely to generate tensions.”
A pitiful attempt to please a handful of nostalgics of French Algeria and try to win back FN voters.
