Drowning by bullets
On the evening of October 17, 1961 about 30,000 Algerians, ostensibly French citizens, descended upon the boulevards of central Paris to protest an 8:30 curfew. The curfew was in response to repeated terrorist attacks by Algerian nationalists in Paris and other French cities. They were met by a police force determined to break up the demonstration. Demonstrators were beaten, shot, even drowned in the Seine. This video exposes the massacre, and the cover-up
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1 videocassette (52 min.) : sound, color with black and white ; 1/2 in.
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In English and French with English subtitles
Narrator, Mark Halliley.
Directed and produced by Philip Brooks and Alan Hayling ; editor, Michèle Courbou.