00:00I have a first question: you mentioned Algerian flags and asked what they were doing.
00:03there.
00:03Can you remind us what happened on October 17, 1961?
00:08No, but I don't care, madam.
00:09David, go tell that you don't care to that man who saw his friends beaten and thrown into
00:12the scene.
00:13Go tell those families of victims who are still demanding justice today that you don't care.
00:16So, since David is bothered by talking about Algeria, we're going to talk about it, and as loudly as possible.
00:20On October 17, 1961 in Paris, Algerians demonstrated against a discriminatory curfew imposed only on them
00:26'to them.'
00:27There were women, children, babies. 20,000 to 40,000 people marched peacefully.
00:31But for Maurice Papon, the police prefect, their mere presence in the center of Paris was unbearable.
00:36Papon, the former Vichy official who had organized the deportation of Jews from Bordeaux during the war,
00:41They prepared everything to punish those Algerians who simply dared to demonstrate.
00:44While the Algerian families were marching peacefully, suddenly the police began to charge them.
00:48The protesters are being chased down and beaten.
00:50The police opened fire before throwing them into the scene.
00:53Neither women nor children will be spared from the outbreak of violence.
00:56Despite this, the Algerians did not resist.
00:58There were no clashes, and no police officers were injured.
01:00The violence was purely and completely gratuitous.
01:03A real massacre.
01:04The state is announcing only 5 deaths.
01:06That's a lie.
01:07Historians estimate that there were between 30 and 200 of them.
01:09Such uncertainty arises because the government will have done everything to suppress the affair.
01:13and that the victims can never be identified.
01:15The following day, many newspapers repeated the police version of events.
01:18They are lying when they say the protesters were violent.
01:20that they were threatening Paris and that the police were just doing their job.
01:23No justice will be served.
01:25No apology to the victims' families.
01:26Even today, the state struggles to fully acknowledge its responsibility in the massacre.
01:31And so, because of blind people like you, Mr. Lysnard,
01:33We still use the same law enforcement techniques today as we did back then.
01:36We continue to view Algerians from the suburbs as a threat.
01:39We continue to monitor them 7 times a week.
01:42Historians explain that these are the direct legacies of colonization.
01:45All this because the State has never fully questioned itself.
01:48Colonization is not a thing of the past.
01:51Its effects continue to this day.
01:52And as long as cowards like you refuse to acknowledge it,
01:55We will never be able to learn from our mistakes and do better.
