Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
Just heard about this on the World Service. Absolutely shocking
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58927939
16 years from the liberation of Paris.
Unsurprisingly, the police chief who ordered the massacre was convicted in 1998 for crimes against humanity when he was working for the Vichy regime
But nobody was charged for these crimes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58927939
16 years from the liberation of Paris.
Unsurprisingly, the police chief who ordered the massacre was convicted in 1998 for crimes against humanity when he was working for the Vichy regime
But nobody was charged for these crimes.
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation
Re: Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
How has this been kept so low key?
where once I used to scintillate
now I sin till ten past three
now I sin till ten past three
Re: Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
I think it's pretty well known about - just not acknowledged.
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Re: Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
On a tangent, I’m reminded that my brother has been researching one of the UK’s worst events, 37 killed and 23 injured in the Denmark Place fire. In that, at least the perpetrator was found and convicted, albeit under a false name. But it was in August 1980 and yet it’s remarkably little known.
Re: Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
There’s a bit of a difference between state sponsored murder of their citizens and residents, for which no one got punished, and a bloke going off the handle and committing mass murder and being punished for it.
Re: Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
Exactly - I was thinking of the comparison between that and bl..dy Sunday
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Re: Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
Oh yeah, absolutely true. I did write ‘on a tangent’, the association that came to my mind was simply [lots of deaths] + [not well known about]