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00:24 Macron receives archives to "soothe" memories.
00:27 Emmanuel Macron presides over a reception dedicated to the archives on Monday morning,
00:31 to take a new step towards recognizing the responsibility of the state in the
00:35 suffering of its former fighters alongside the French army during the Algerian war.
00:39 This reception is held five days before the National Day of Homage to the Archives,
00:44 which is celebrated every September 25 since 2003,
00:46 especially in the south of France where they are very present.
00:49 The strong time on Monday will be, at 10.30, Emmanuel Macron's speech in which he will open
00:55 the site of the repair, going further than his predecessor François Hollande who,
00:59 in 2016, had recognized the responsibilities of the French governments in the abandonment of the archives.
01:04 "The president considers that the work accomplished for 60 years is important but that we must take
01:10 a new step in recognizing the lack that has been made of the archives but also the lack
01:13 of the French Republic for its own values ", explains the Elysée.
01:17 "The history of the archives is a history of French and it is the history of the French,
01:22 it is in this state of mind that we must address this new chapter ", according to the presidency.
01:26 The archives are these former fighters, up to 200,000 men, recruited as auxiliaries of the
01:32 French army during the conflict that opposed from 1954 to 1962 Algerian nationalists to France.
01:38 At the end of this war, some of them, abandoned by Paris,
01:43 were victims of reprisals in Algeria.
01:45 Dozens of thousands of others, often accompanied by women and children,
01:49 were transferred to France where they were placed in transit and reclassification camps
01:54 under indecent and permanently traumatic conditions.
01:56 A law is in demand. Since then, the Republic has taken steps,
02:01 there have been various compensation procedures installed over time,
02:04 reminds a councilor of the presidency.
02:06 So many gestures judged insufficient by the archives associations,
02:11 which claim, in an open letter to Emmanuel Macron,
02:14 that a "law of recognition of the abandonment of the archives" should be voted by the end of the year.
02:19 "We saw you have the courage to recognize the dark pages of our history,
02:22 on the war in Algeria, Rwanda or the nuclear tests in Polynesia.
02:26 We hope that you will be the one to put an end to 60 years of a certain hypocrisy
02:31 consisting of recognizing the abandonment of the archives in the speeches but to refuse it in a law ",
02:35 writes AGIR, the Association Justice Information Reparation for the Archives.
02:39 The associations, which say they represent a community of about 400,000 people,
02:44 archives and descendants, also claim a revaluation of existing compensations.
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