In Toul, the statue of General Marcel Bigeard, torturer in the Algerian War, is controversial

This is a controversial statue. In Toul, in the Grand Est region, a sculpture of General Marcel Bigeard was erected last month. Celebrated as a hero of the resistance and the Indochina War, the soldier also hides a past as a torturer during the French occupation of Algeria. A terrifying face that the Algerian victims of his methods and their descendants have not forgotten, some of whom now reside in Toul, a stone’s throw from the statue recently emerged from the ground.