Physical Address
Indirizzo: Via Mario Greco 60, Buttigliera Alta, 10090, Torino, Italy
The President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune sent a message to Algerians on the occasion of the celebration of the 64th anniversary of the day of October 17, 1961 commemorating the massacres perpetrated by the French police, then led by the sinister prefect Maurice Papon, against Algerian demonstrators.
The president’s message:
On October 17, we revive the memory of a day engraved in the national memory, testifying to the commitment of Algerian emigrants in favor of the glorious Revolution of Liberation, which, after seven years of armed struggle, had established itself as an epic of emancipation, an epic which drained, through the scale and resonance of its revolutionary momentum, the support of freedom-loving peoples throughout the world in favor of a people in struggle, resolved to to change the course of colonial history and to free ourselves from its yoke and its tyranny, at the cost of heavy sacrifices.
The noose which tightened on a colonizer surrounded by the legitimacy of the struggle and the justness of the cause, plunged him, at this stage of History, into hysteria, when the Parisian police, under the orders of the prefect of police at the time Maurice Papon, imposed an arbitrary curfew on members of the Algerian community.
His arrogance threw him into the abyss of crime and savage repression, attacking peaceful crowds out to demonstrate, which ended in a tragic outcome, with demonstrators who were drowned in the Seine and others brutalized, tortured and transferred to camps. The memory of these sacrifices made by the children of the community remains forever engraved in our minds.
In this annual stop where we remember the 64th anniversary of the demonstrations of October 17, 1961, I reflect with you in the memory of the generation of national activists abroad during the glorious war of national liberation who left us, and in the memory of the valiant martyrs, while sending my greetings to the children of our national community throughout the world, who carry love and loyalty to Algeria in their hearts, and who honor their commitment by participating in the dynamics of the economic transformations underway in the country, driven by the desire to take part in the process of national renewal and the construction of the modern national State to which the brave Algerian people aspire.