Red All Saints\' day

The red All Saints' day is the name given to the attacks having taken place on November 1st 1954 in Algérie then French Colonie, which made many victims on both sides of the two camps and which marks the beginning of the war of independence of Algeria.

The attacks were organized by FLN (Face of National Release) against French teachers. About thirty more or less disordered attacks take place in this day of All Saints' day in all the territory… Seven died, including two Moslems.

The only European victims are a couple of young teachers come from the metropolis to inform the children of the village. Their coach is attacked in the throats of Tighanimine. They are extracted from the vehicle as well as the other passengers and are touched by a gust of machine-gun intended for the caid Hadj Sadok. Guy Monnerot succumbs at once but his wife, Jacqueline, will survive her wounds. The murderers of the two French would have enfreint the order to attack only members of the francophile Moslem elite, except for Europeans. They would have been sanctioned later by their chiefs.

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http://www.herodote.net/histoire11012.htm

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