Let us never forget the Pieds-Noirs, its Europeans who built Algeria.
You should know that the French represented almost 50% to 60% of Pieds noirs.
The rest were mostly Spaniards, Italians.
In 1960 The Pieds-Noirs population was 1 million living mainly in Algiers and Oran.
During the war thousands of Pieds- Noirs and hundreds of thousands of Harkis (Muslim pro-France) were killed by terrorists.
The Europeans had to flee Algeria to joins the French metropolis, a land that many did not know.
My whole family is Pieds-noirs.
My grandparents were born in Algiers as well as some of my uncles and aunts. My great grandfather was the caretaker of a Christian cemetery
2009 photos of the cemetery where my grandfather was the caretaker.
The graves have been destroyed. Even the dead they don't respect!
Yes they were authorized but the French government and the French of metropolis rejected them. The mayor of Marseille had said "throw them in the port" The Pieds noirs then settled mainly in the south of France. One million have migrated in a few months https://twitter.com/AnglesonWalter/status/1350903883565064194?s=19
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