Sixty years after the end of the Algerian war, the Parliament is preparing to definitively adopt on Tuesday, by a final vote of the Senate, a bill to ask "forgiveness" to the harkis, which opens the way to compensation for some families.

This text comes to concretize a commitment made by President Emmanuel Macron, who, on September 20, had asked "pardon" to these Algerians who fought alongside the French army, but who were "abandoned" by France after the signing of the Evian Accords on March 18, 1962.

Nearly 60 years later, the wounds opened by this deadly war (1954-1962) are far from being healed.

And the discussion of the text aroused a lot of emotion and passion in the hemicycles of the two assemblies, tensions also in the harkie community.

A bill that provides “reparations”

Deputies and senators reached a compromise text in a joint committee, which was approved last week for the last time by the National Assembly.

The vote of the high assembly will therefore be worth final adoption.

This bill is "that of the recognition by the Nation of a deep tear and a French tragedy, of a dark page in our History", argues the Minister in charge of Memory and Veterans Affairs Geneviève Darrieussecq.

Nearly half of them have been relegated to camps and “foresting hamlets”.

"These places were places of banishment, which bruised, traumatized and sometimes killed", according to the minister.

For these, the bill provides for “reparation” of the damage with, as a result, a lump sum taking into account the duration of the stay in these structures, from 2,000 to 15,000 euros.

The number of potential beneficiaries is estimated by the government at 50,000, for an overall cost of 302 million euros over approximately six years.

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