This is the big day.

A decree from the Ministry of Culture makes available from this Thursday all "public archives produced in the context of cases relating to acts committed in connection with the Algerian war between November 1, 1954 and December 31, 1966" .

This concerns "documents relating to cases brought before the courts and the execution of court decisions" and "documents relating to investigations carried out by the services of the judicial police", specifies the text published in the Official Journal.

This openness will perhaps allow historians to shed light on certain gray areas of France's action in Algeria, from the start of the independence insurrection in 1954 until independence in 1962.

A long work to shed light on the past

Until now, all these archives were legally non-consultable for 75 years, except by obtaining an exemption.

These archives are "kept at the National Archives, the National Archives of Overseas, in the departmental archives services, in the archives service of the prefecture of police, in the archives services under the Ministry of the Armed Forces and in the Archives Directorate of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs ”, specifies the decree.

For twenty years, successive French governments have facilitated access to archives relating to sensitive periods in the country's history: first the Second World War and the Occupation, then the end of the Empire. colonial after war.

In September 2018, Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that the disappearance of the mathematician and communist activist Maurice Audin, in 1957 in Algiers, was the act of the French army and opened the archives on this affair.

Then in March 2021, he announced a simplification of the procedure for access by exemption to classified archives over 50 years old.

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