Daily Mail published this video item, entitled “Macron interrupted by daughter of Algerian Harki as he asks forgiveness” – below is their description.
More than 200,000 Algerians fought with the French army in the war of independence that pitted Algerian independence fighters against their French colonial masters from 1954 to 1962. Trapped in Algeria, many were massacred as the country’s new masters took brutal revenge while thousands of others who escaped to France were interned in camps, often with their families, in degrading and traumatising conditions. ‘I want to express our gratitude to the fighters,’ Macron said at a ceremony at the Elysee Palace attended by around 300 people, mostly surviving Harkis and their families. ‘I’m asking for forgiveness. We will not forget,’ Macron said, adding that France had ‘failed in its duty towards the Harkis, their wives, their children’. His speech was interrupted several times by hecklers, with one woman in the audience accusing Macron of ‘making empty promises’.
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