The 60th anniversary of Algeria’s independence, July 5, 1962, marks the end of more than 130 years of colonization by France. This policy, marked in particular by the segregation of so-called indigenous people, did not apply only to Algerian territory. It’s a little-known story that we tell you today in Great reportthat of a colonial enclave on the metropolitan territory, on the scale of a hospital.
In the 1930s, in Bobigny in the northern suburbs of Paris, the Franco-Muslim hospital was created, now called Avicenne hospital. Its operation is a summary of the ideology, in progress until 1962 in Algeria.
“The Avicenne Hospital of Bobigny, a colonial heritage”, a great report by Marie Casadebaig.
(Rebroadcast July 5, 2022)