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Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2021 8:48 pm
by jimbob
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.
Re: Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:08 pm
by Grumble
How has this been kept so low key?
Re: Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:22 pm
by Gfamily
Grumble wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:08 pm
How has this been kept so low key?
I think it's pretty well known about - just not acknowledged.
Re: Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2021 9:27 am
by individualmember
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
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2021 10:32 am
by bjn
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
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:03 pm
by jimbob
bjn wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 10:32 am
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.
Exactly - I was thinking of the comparison between that and bl..dy Sunday
Re: Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:11 pm
by noggins
Grumble wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:08 pm
o
How has this been kept so low key?
France is really f.cked up.
Al our postcolonial b.llsh.t/denial/angst with the shame of defeat and collaboration on top.
Re: Paris Massacre of October 17, 1961
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 12:18 pm
by individualmember
bjn wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 10:32 am
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.
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]