Emmanuel Macron asked his ambassador to Algeria to table, on Tuesday, March 15, a wreath of flowers in the memory of the writer and a murdered teacher, sixty years ago, by the organization of the secret army.
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A new gesture for reconciling memories. Tuesday, March 15, at 3 pm, the French ambassador in Algeria, François Gouyette, must deposit, on behalf of the President of the Republic, a sheaf of flowers in tribute to Mouloud Ferraoun and his five companions. Sixty years ago, day for day, this recognized Algerian writer and a humanist teacher was coldly murdered by the organization of the secret army (OAS), in the heights of the capital. For this commemoration in front of the stele erected on the scene of the drama, Mr. Gouyette should be accompanied by Léïd Rebigua, Minister of Mujahideen and Holders, and Abdelmadjid Chikhi, Memorial Advisor for Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
On March 15, 1962, at 10 o’clock in El-Biar, several leaders of socio-educational centers (CSE) had found themselves at a local Chateau-Royal, on the road to Ben-Aknoun. In the open meeting, a commando of the OAS Fit Irruption, designated six national education inspectors – Salah Ould Aoudia, Ali Hammoutee, Mouloud Ferraoun, Robert Eymard, Marcel Basset and Max Marchand -; Then took them outside to execute them at the machine gun.
Three days of the signing of the Evian agreements, which was going to end seven years of war between the colonial power and the National Liberation Front (FLN), these crimes had aroused a terrible emotion in French companies. and Algerians. In a moving text, the Tillion Germaine Resistant – which had launched these structures, in 1955, to help the poorest, ensuring, among other things, literacy classes – stressed that these “Muslim” or “Catholics” victims “had” a common passion: the rescue of Algerian childhood “. For her, “stupidity, fierce stupidity” had “murdered” Mouloud Ferraoun “coldly, deliberately”.
A highly symbolic tragedy
It’s Benjamin Stora who proposed to Emmanuel Macron to celebrate the memory of the Kabyle writer. “He said yes, explains the historian. Mouloud Ferraoun was anticolonialist but he loved France. By killing him, we committed a murder against culture and attempted to destroy the possibility of gateway between France and the Algeria. “It was also a positive and long-standing demand from the associations of the Victims of the OAS, like the friends of Max Marchand, Mouloud Ferraoun and their companions. “The sacrifice of my father and his dead companions for the defense of the values of the Republic and for the independence of Algeria in a fraternal relationship with France will not have been vain,” greets Jean-Philippe Ould Aoudia, son of one of the victims.
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