#Algeria : The French ambassador to Algeria laid on Tuesday, on behalf of President Emmanuel Macron, a wreath of flowers in honor of the Algerian writer Mouloud Feraoun, assassinated 60 years ago by the OAS, a clandestine organization opposed to Algerian independence.
On March 15, 1962, four days before the ceasefire resulting from the Evian agreements, Mouloud Feraoun, teacher, great Algerian novelist, friend of Albert Camus and Emmanuel Robles, humanist and non-violent, was assassinated by a commando claiming to belong to the Secret Army Organization (OAS).
Mouloud Feraoun and five national education inspectors, coldly executed that day, were committed to the literacy, training and health of Algerians, within the social educational centers, created on the initiative of the ethnologist and resistance fighter Germaine Tillon.
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These centers were perceived by the OAS as centers of independence, and symbolized the rapprochement between the communities.
«It was President (Emmanuel) Macron’s wish that I be able to lay a wreath on his behalf today, in memory of these six teachers murdered on March 15, 1962, a few days before the ceasefire and Evian Accords»Gouyette said at the ceremony.
«It is a mark of consideration that the President of the French Republic wanted to express, who asked me to lay this wreath right here, at the place of his assassination.»added the diplomat.
According to the Elysée «this historical recognition is part of a long-term memorial policy, of looking history in the face and recognizing».
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Since his accession to power in 2017, Emmanuel Macron has multiplied memorial gestures in an attempt to «reconcile memories» between French and Algerians, but without «repentance».
On February 8, Macron had already paid tribute to the victims who died at the Charonne metro station in Paris during a demonstration for peace in Algeria on February 8, 1962, which was violently repressed by the French police.
Paris has been working for several months to renew the relationship with Algiers, following a crisis fueled by comments reported by Macron in October, blaming the system «politico-military» Algerian to maintain a «memorial pension» around the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962).
