The half-voluntary ignorance, the cowardly indifference, in which readers of the Figaro have basked for years do not justify themselves in any case, whatever may be the ensign with which one would pretend to cover them, and anti-fascism least of all... It is striking to observe that these tortures, more than the "scientific" technologies applied during the Battle of Algiers, seem to apply in most cases to beatings (passages à tabac) disproportionately aggravated by the responsible policeman. ...any symmetry with the 1957 Battle of Algiers would however be absurd; it was all of the 10th D.P. which in 1957 controlled, arrested, and tortured. The team of the "Tagarins" [barracks] remains to the contrary isolated...To our knowledge, nobody has accused the units charged with controlling Bab-el-Oued of torturing...