France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBy deprogramming an unprecedented documentary on the Algerian war a few days before its broadcast, scheduled for Sunday, March 16, in the program La Case du si\u00e8cle (France 5), France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions did not imagine that its decision would provoke so much eddy on the other side of the Mediterranean. “It is a lack of vigilance on our part on a sensitive subject”<\/em>admits the management of the group, contacted by The world<\/em>. France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions claims to have wanted “Adjust its programs to be in line with the geopolitical news of the moment”<\/em>hence the choice to devote the evening of March 16 to Russia and the United States, and that of March 23 to Syria. “The documentary will be given to the antenna by June”,<\/em> supports the group’s management.<\/p>\nIn the tempestuous climate which has permeated relations between Paris and Algiers for several weeks, the announcement, on March 11, of the withdrawal of the grid of the survey of Claire Billet and Christophe Lafaye “Algeria, special weapons sections”,,<\/em> aroused a wave of indignation in Algeria. The provision of the program, the next day, in free access to the digital platform of the French audiovisual group, has changed anything.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> “A debate on genocidal nature of the colonial fact is among historians” <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\nThe same day, the official daily life El Moudjahid<\/em> devoted his headlines to it, evoking a “Smalling scandal”<\/em> Under a scathing title: “France flouts freedom and silencing a documentary that reveals its crimes”<\/em>. Extracts from the film, available since March 9 on the Radio Television Swiss (RTS) website, were already circulating on social networks.<\/p>\nTaking the opposite of France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions, the Algerian public channels broadcast the documentary on the evening of March 12. An approach which responds, according to the historian Christophe Lafaye, associate researcher at the University of Burgundy Europe, to ” An extremely important need for history in Algerian society, a need also recognition of colonial war damages<\/em> \u00bb.<\/p>\nAt least 440 caves identified<\/h2>\n Because the investigation he conducted with the director Claire Billet lifts the veil on a dark and little known page of war: the large -scale use of toxic gas against Algerian fighters. An article published in the journal XXI<\/em>in 2023, signed by Claire Billet and backed by Christophe Lafaye’s research, had already given the floor to some witnesses, whose faces punctuate the documentary. “I wanted to work on the memory of the war of independence, and I was that they had to collect their words as soon as possible because they are elderly today <\/em>“Explains the journalist, who filmed part of the images in Kabylia and the Aur\u00e8s massif, near a cave where many civilians died.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> \u201cAlgeria and France. A land for two peoples (1830-1962) “: an scholarly history of the secessionist penchants of the colonial <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\nAs the historian reminds us, the mission of these special weapons sections was double. They intervened ” To fight against combatants of the national liberation army refugees in the caves and to carry out systematic infections of the caves which could not be completely destroyed <\/em>And whose walls are always contaminated, more than half a century after the end of the fighting. The gas identified on military documents is CN2D, a compound of chloroaccetophenone – powerful irritant – and adamsite – vomit agent -, whose massive use obliged the insurgents to flee the sites “Treaties”,<\/em> at the risk of dying there. The method recalls the “smoking” to which the French expeditionary force used during the conquest of Algeria in the 19th century.<\/p>\nBetween 8,000 and 10,000 operations of this type would have taken place on Algerian soil between 1956 and 1962, evaluated the academic, which has not located only 440 places so far, hampered in its research by access to operations reports and staff documents. According to the heritage code from the 2008 law, these elements respond to the regime of incommunicable perpetuity archives, on the pretext that they are likely “To cause the dissemination of information to design, manufacture, use or locate nuclear, biological, chemical weapons or any other weapons with direct or indirect effects of destruction of a similar level”<\/em>.<\/p>\nA political decision<\/h2>\n From the overseas national archives, private funds, couriers collected from descendants, Christophe Lafaye was still able to highlight this use of toxic gas, experimental in 1956, then generalized throughout Algeria from 1957 with the creation of the special weapons brigade (Bas) and the establishment of 119 teams of cave. This organization was rationalized thanks to the Challe plan (named General Maurice Challe) in 1959.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> In the crisis with Algeria, France plagued by tightness <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\nThe deprogramming of the documentary “Algeria, special weapons sections” is only “ adventure<\/em> “In the eyes of the historian, but she may help be talked about about this unknown page in history and to make the State react:” It was not the army alone that made the decision to resort to chemical weapons, it is a political decision by Maurice Bourg\u00e8s-Maunoury, Minister of Defense in 1956, approved by the civil and military authorities in Algeria<\/em> \u00bb.<\/p>\n\n Newsletter<\/span> <\/p>\n“Le Monde Afrique”<\/p>\n
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“” The film exists thanks to France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions which devoted financial means to it<\/em>recognizes Claire Billet, But if there had not been this controversy, I am not sure that one would have talked about it as much, when it approaches a subject of public utility <\/em>\u00bb. The director was contacted by the environmental parliamentarian and secretary of the National Assembly Sabrina Sebaihi, who wishes to project the documentary before the deputies.<\/p>\n\n Simon Roger<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n Reuse this content <\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\nTm-En-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image extracted from the documentary “Algeria, special weapons sections” by Claire Billet and Christophe Lafaye. France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions By deprogramming an unprecedented documentary on the Algerian war a few days before its broadcast, scheduled for Sunday, March 16, in the program La Case du si\u00e8cle (France 5), France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions did not imagine that its decision would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,10165,1946,14246,2135,1309,3543,9955,23377,247],"class_list":["post-106558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-army","tag-arouses","tag-chemical","tag-controversy","tag-documentary","tag-france","tag-french","tag-postponement","tag-televisions","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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