events
Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
Related Wikipedia articles
Maurice Papon
French policeman, politician, and Axis collaborator (1910–2007)
Maurice Papon was a French civil servant and Nazi collaborator who was convicted of crimes against humanity committed during the occupation of France. Papon led the police in major prefectures from the 1930s to the 1960s, before he became a Gaullist politician. When he was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
1961 Paris massacre
1961 police killing of Algerian independence demonstrators in Paris, France
The 1961 Paris massacre was the mass killing of Algerians who were living in Paris by the French National Police. It occurred on 17 October 1961, during the Algerian War (1954–62). Under orders from the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon, the National Police attacked a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Algerians
Citizens and nationals of Algeria
Algerians are the citizens and nationals of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. The majority of the country's population is composed of Arabs who make up 85% of the population, and there is a Berber minority of 15%. The term also applies more broadly to any people who…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)