In the summer of 1973, an unprecedented wave of racist assassinations swept across France. In four months, around fifty Algerians mainly were killed, including 17 in Marseille, the epicenter of these shootings. Botched investigations, perpetrators rarely identified… Crimes that have gone unpunished and denied up to the highest levels of the state. We are now 11 years after the end of the Algerian conflict.
50 years later, the lack of justice remains painful for families. But witnesses of the time, historians and elected officials are trying to bring these assassinations out of oblivion. Memory work has begun.
“Marseille remembers the racist crimes of 1973”, a major report by Baptiste Coulon.