Algerians in France, 1954-1962 Fifty-one years after the October
1961 massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris, four Algerians
who lived in France during the Algerian war talk about their
bitter struggle for the independence of their homeland in a
FRANCE 24 documentary. Fifty years have passed since the end of
the brutal 1954-1962 war that led to Algeria’s independence from
France. For the numerous Algerians living in France during the
gruesome eight-year conflict, it was a dangerous time marked by
political activism and often bloody repression – and an era that
has long been silenced. In an in-depth report produced in
partnership with France’s Cité nationale de l’Histoire de
l’immigration, FRANCE 24 journalist Florence Gaillard talks to
four Algerian expatriates – two political activists, a cabaret
dancer and a witness to the infamous October 1961 Paris massacre
– about living in exile and the struggle for independence.
Video: Karim Hakiki