President Emmanuel #Macron has admitted for the first time that French soldiers murdered a top Algerian independence figure then covered up his death, in the latest acknowledgement by Paris of its colonial-era crimes. Macron met four of the grandchildren of #AliBoumendjel and admitted “in the name of France” that the lawyer had been detained, tortured and killed in #Algiers on March 23, 1957.
Algerians react to France admission of colonial crimes
