The Minister of French Culture announced, Friday, the upcoming opening of the “judicial investigations” of the Algerian war on Friday with fifteen years in advance. An important step in the thaw of relations between the two countries, strongly disrupted this last period.
“I want this question – which is disturbing, irritating, where there are falsifiers of history at work – we can face it. We do not build a national novel on a lie, “said the minister on the continuous news channel.
For his part, the president of the association Josette and Maurice Audin, who campaigned for the recognition of colonial crimes, recognizes the existence of many gray areas in the history of the Algerian war.
“Tens of thousands of people disappeared during the Algerian War. Many families do not know under what conditions they were executed or buried, “he argued.
This declaration of scale comes in any case two days after the visit to Algiers of the chief of French diplomacy, Jean-Yves Le Drian, in an attempt to defuse a crisis of rare gravity between the two countries.
