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The Paris massacre that time forgot, 51 years on

Fifty-one years to the day, French President François Hollande has recognised the October 17, 1961 massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris. Historian Jean-Luc Einaudi talks to FRANCE 24 about one of the darkest chapters of French colonial history.

France remembers Algerian massacre 50 years on

François Hollande among those at event to mark anniversary of day protesters died at the hands of the police