“We have things to rebuild with Algeria, they can only be rebuilt on the basis of the truth”, justified the Minister of Culture.
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The Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot announced, Friday, December 10, the next opening of the archives on “judicial inquiries” of the Algerian War (1954-1962), nearly 60 years later and when the Franco-Algerian relationship has been in crisis for months.
“I open with 15 years in advance the archives on the judicial investigations of the gendarmerie and the police which relate to the war in Algeria”, she announced on BFMTV. A statement that comes two days after the visit to Algiers of Jean-Yves Le Drian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
“I want that on this question – which is disturbing, irritating, where there are falsifiers of history at work – I want us to be able to look it in the face. You don’t build a national novel on a lie . “
Roselyne Bachelot, Minister of Cultureon BFMTV
“It is the falsification that brings all the wanderings, all the troubles and all the hatred, again justified the minister. We have things to rebuild with Algeria, they can only be rebuilt on the basis of the truth. ” Asked about the consequences of this decision, in particular on the confirmation of acts of torture committed by the French army, “it is in the country’s interest to recognize it”, added Roselyne Bachelot.
This announcement is part of the policy of memorial reconciliation initiated by the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron. On September 13, 2018, the president had thus recognized that the disappearance of the mathematician and communist activist Maurice Audin, in 1957 in Algiers, was the act of the French army and promised his family wide access to the archives.
On March 9, 2021, continuing its policy of “small steps”, he announced a simplification of access to declassification procedures for classified archives over 50 years old, making it possible to shorten the waiting times associated with this procedure.