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Since a law of 2012, March 19 is the national day of remembrance of the victims of the Algerian war. Corn this date is criticized by part of the political class, returnees and harkis.
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15h17 : For the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Evian agreements which put an end to the war in Algeria,franceinfo met the famous photographer Raymond Depardon, which immortalized this conflict. In 1961, when he was 19, he remembers the atmosphere on the other side of the Mediterranean. “Ohn told me ‘Raymond, if you get arrested, you hide your films.’ (…) It was violent as time”he assures.
15h00 : On the occasion of a ceremony organized at the Elysée to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Evian agreements, Emmanuel Macron declared “to assume” the sometimes controversial memorial gestures made since the beginning of the five-year period on the Algerian war. “I think the day will come when Algeria will take this path”added the head of state.
(GONZALO SOURCES / AFP)
14h09 : It’s time to take stock of the news.
• A military barracks was destroyed by a Russian strike in southern Ukraine, in Mykolaiv, leading to fears of a heavy toll. Dozens of people were killed. Follow our direct.
• “This date marks neither the end of war nor the beginning of peace”, declares Macron on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Evian agreements. Relive the speech of the President of the Republic.
• Tank trucks supplying service stations and oil depots are authorized to drive on weekends until April 10according to a decree published in the Official Journal.
• Fabien Galthié’s XV of France, opposed to England this evening (9 p.m.), is only 80 minutes away from a grand slam in the Six Nations Tournament which has eluded it for twelve years.
14h08 : The President of the Republic has finished his speech on the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Evian agreements.
14h08 : “During these few years I have held many hands, I will not let go of them. I have a dream, that they hold each other, that is what makes the strength of a nation, its fraternity despite the silences, the impossible, the unthought. I am confident, there will inevitably be moments of nervousness, there will still be feelings of injustice, but we will get there”.
14h08 : “This date is that of such an important ceasefire (…) By having this moment of recognition and commemoration, I also wanted to bring together all these memories and allow us to move forward in this history and its transmission. for ourselves and for our future.”
13h40 : “This path of recognition that we are going to pursue, because it is now unstoppable, is simply the condition for all of us not to forget anything, to deny nothing of the irreducible nature of the sufferings, the pains of what has been experienced, but to assume that they are all French, because the Algerian war, its unspoken, had become the matrix of resentment.
14h07 : “Today is a stage, it is also a very imperfect journey, but it is a journey of recognition which consisted in putting an end to denials, to silences (…) I was able do things that were unbearable for some of you in this room and which were then unbearable for others. I believe that it was necessary to do them each time. Because each time the Republic had to may reach out his hands and lift his silences and recognize what was long awaited.”
13h15 : “This date marks neither the end of the war, nor the beginning of peace (…) It cannot be the only one, nor be denied, forgotten, jostled.”
13h16 : “This date [du 19 mars] is first of all that of relief, but I also know how much this date is not the end of the violence.
14h06 : “Thank you for having had the courage, the sincerity all four to have given us these testimonies”assures Emmanuel Macron at the start of his speech.
13h10 : Follow Emmanuel Macron’s speech live to commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the Evian agreements.
13h06 : France commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Evian Accords and the ceasefire in Algeria. Since the law of December 6, 2012, March 19 is the “national day of remembrance and meditation in memory of the civilian and military victims of the war in Algeria and the fighting in Tunisia and Morocco”. But this date continues to be rejected among the harkis and repatriates and within a part of the right and the extreme right, as explained in this article.
13h04 : Then it is the turn of Lalia Ducos, Franco-Algerian who experienced the war in Algeria, to express herself. “Witnesses disappearing over time, I thought it was important to participate with the different actors [au souvenir de cette guerre] and that the diversity of our individual stories would allow younger generations a better understanding of a conflict that for 60 years will have marked individuals as well as French and Algerian societies”she assures.
13h03 : After the Minister Delegate, Jean-Pierre Louvel, former member of the conscripts of the contingent and member of the Fnaca (National Federation of Veterans of Algeria) takes the floor and recounts his journey during this war in Algeria and following this conflict. “Transmit the memory request of the requirement”he assures. “Today, March 19 is a day of remembrance and contemplation”he adds.
12h43 : Before Emmanuel Macron’s speech for the commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the Evian agreements, Geneviève Darrieussecq, Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Armed Forces, in charge of Memory and Veterans Affairs, speaks: “March 19 is the symbol of lives turned upside down by the Algerian war and its consequences, of deep wounds and fractures between the actors of the same drama.” Follow our direct.
12h01 : It’s time to take stock of the news.
• The Russian Defense Ministry said it had used “Kinjal” hypersonic missiles the day before to destroy an underground weapons warehouse in western Ukraine. Follow our direct.
• France commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Evian agreements and the ceasefire in Algeria, with a ceremony at the Elysée where Emmanuel Macron will once more plead for a “appeasement” memories on both shores of the Mediterranean. Follow our direct.
• Tank trucks supplying service stations and oil depots are authorized to drive on weekends until April 10according to a decree published in the Official Journal.
• Fabien Galthié’s XV of France, opposed to England this evening (9 p.m.), is only 80 minutes away from a grand slam in the Six Nations Tournament which has eluded it for twelve years.
