Algerian nationalist lawyer Ali Boumengel now has a street named after him in Gonesse

The town of Gones, north of Paris, on Tuesday unveiled a plaque in an alley named after Algerian nationalist lawyer Ali Boumengely, who Emmanuel Macron admitted was “tortured and killed” by the French army in 2021 during the Algerian war.

The event took place on Tuesday afternoon in the presence of “familyBy Mr Boumengel, the city’s communications department told AFP. A memorial plaque bearing his name was posted in the alley of the famous Fauconnier district. Another alley in the same district is also named after Fani Pechi.A few years ago, a former city manager and elected official who was repatriated from Algeria“, said the same source.

“These two events are part of the mayor’s desire for a process of reconciliation of memories, respecting each story, the year of the 60th anniversary of the end of the Algerian war and the history of the symbolic district.,” argued the city, located in the Val d’Oise and led by socialist Jean-Pierre Blazy.

Advocate for Algerian independence

This inauguration has a symbolic meaning. This is “for the first time, to my knowledge, in France“that the commemorative plaque on the street named after Ali Boumenjeli was opened”this Algerian activist for democracy, for peace and Algerian independence– emphasized historian Benjamin Stora, a specialist in the Algerian war (1954-1962).

“The struggle continues for the respect of human rights, a fairer and more equal society, which must face the painful past with simplicity.The French historian wrote in a message sent to AFP. Mr. Stora is the author of the report on the memory of colonization and the war in Algeria presented to the President of the Republic in January 2021.

At the beginning of March 2021, Emmanuel Macron admitted:In the name of France“Nationalist lawyer Ali Boumengel was”.tortured and killedOn March 23, 1957, by French army soldiers during the Battle of Algiers, contradicting the official suicide thesis. The move was part of a series of events organized since the head of state’s arrival in 2017 in an attempt to “build a peaceful and shared memoryThe colonization of Algeria and the war that led to its independence in 1962.