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On this day, 17 October 1961, scores of Algerian demonstrators were massacred by police in Paris after a curfew from 8:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m was order for “Algerian Muslim workers,” “French Muslims,” and “French Muslims of Algeria.” Some 30,000-40,000 had been marching in the demonstration called for by the Algerian National Liberation Front, which was fighting for independence from France. 11,000 of various nationalities and religions were arrested and up to over 200 demonstrators were beaten to death, robbed by police and thrown in the River Seine. The chief of police during the operation had been a prominent Nazi collaborator. At the time the French media hardly covered the killings, and the government only eventually admitted it occurred and 40 were killed in 1998.
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