Monde: French authorities declassified archives of court cases and investigations on the Algerian war
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The French authorities have declassified archives of court cases and police investigations related to the 1954-1962 Algerian war. Reported by Le Monde.
On December 10, Minister of Culture of the country Roselyn Bashlo-Narkin announced her intention to disclose archival documents as a memorial gesture. She stressed that this step should contribute to the restoration of relations between Paris and Algeria based on the truth.
According to an interdepartmental decree, the materials of the state archives created in the framework of cases concerning the Algerian War, in the period from November 1, 1954 to December 31, 1966, can be freely examined. According to the newspaper, without this decision, access to them could be obtained only 75 years after the military conflict.
The Algerian War is an armed conflict between the French colonial administration and opposition representatives who fought for the country's independence from Paris. In fact, the rebels were defeated in the war, but subsequently France recognized the independence of Algeria.
On December 16, it became known that the United States had declassified an archive of 1,491 new documents related to the investigation into the assassination of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. This is the information, the publication of which did not cause objections from the American authorities. The second part of the archive is planned to be made public by December 15, 2022.
