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French police killed over 200 Algerians in Paris during a peaceful demonstration

63
years ago

17 October 1961,

In Paris, the French police murdered over 200 Algerians in defence of Algerian freedom and during a peaceful demonstration against the return orders imposed on the Algerians. Many of them drowned after being thrown by the police into the Seine River.

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