Drifa Ben M'hidi says Emmanuel Macron's recognition of France's responsibility for the deaths of just two people - French communist activist Maurice Audin and Algerian lawyer Ali Boumendjel - is insufficient.
She demands from France a solemn recognition as well as an apology to Algeria.
Our guest affirms that the French general Marcel Bigeard, who had arrested his brother in Algiers in 1957, confessed to him during a meeting in the 1980s that his brother had not committed suicide, unlike the French official version.
Drifa Ben M'hidi rejects the regrets expressed by Marcel Bigeard.
She adds that she will never be able to forgive Paul Aussaresses, the French officer who publicly confessed twenty years ago to having hanged Larbi Ben M'hidi.
She accuses François Mitterrand, then Minister of Justice, of having his brother executed, assuring that he was aware of the actions of the French soldiers in Algeria.
Drifa Ben M'hidi believes that only recognition by France of its colonial crimes will allow the painful page of the war to be turned.
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