"A welcome step": Macron's recognition of the assassination of Algerian activist Ali Boumendjel

"What we're talking about here is a system of repression." Cambridge University lecturer Arthur Asseraf says France needs to go beyond acknowledging individual wrongdoings in Algeria.

After recognizing the 1957 "torture and murder" of renowned Algerian activist Ali Boumendjel during his country's war for independence, President Emmanuel Macron debunked the French army's line that it was a suicide but refused a blanket apology for colonial rule.

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