Emmanuel Macron also recognises role of state in 1957 death of dissident Maurice Audin The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has formally recognised that the French state was responsible for the death of a dissident mathematician in Algeria in 1957, admitting for the first time the French military's "system" of torture during Algeria's independence war. Macron paid a visit on Thursday to the widow of Maurice Audin, a French communist mathematician and anti-colonial activist.
Emmanuel Macron also recognises role of state in 1957 death of dissident Maurice Audin The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has formally recognised that the French state was responsible for the death of a dissident mathematician in Algeria in 1957, admitting for the first time the French military's "system" of torture during Algeria's independence war. Macron paid a visit on Thursday to the widow of Maurice Audin, a French communist mathematician and anti-colonial activist.
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