The Paris Massacre of 1961: The Night French Police Attacked Algerian Protesters
On October 17, 1961, thousands of Algerians gathered in Paris to protest a discriminatory nighttime curfew imposed on Algerians living in the French capital. The demonstration took place during the Algerian War of Independence, a conflict that had been raging since 1954. What followed was one of the darkest episodes in modern French history. French…