FILE - In this Oct.17, 1967 record photo, Algerians travel retired of Paris subway presumption with their hands connected their heads aft being arrested successful Paris for nonaccomplishment to obey curfew imposed connected Algerians. A tribute march is organized successful Paris Sunday Oct.17, 2021 for the 60th day of the bloody constabulary crackdown connected a protestation by Algerians successful the French capital, during the last twelvemonth of their country's independency warfare with the assemblage power. About 12,000 Algerians were arrested and "several dozens" were killed, "their bodies thrown into the Seine River." Historians accidental astatine slightest 120 protesters person been killed, immoderate changeable and immoderate drowned successful the Seine River. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this Oct.17, 1967 record photo, Algerians travel retired of Paris subway presumption with their hands connected their heads aft being arrested successful Paris for nonaccomplishment to obey curfew imposed connected Algerians. A tribute march is organized successful Paris Sunday Oct.17, 2021 for the 60th day of the bloody constabulary crackdown connected a protestation by Algerians successful the French capital, during the last twelvemonth of their country's independency warfare with the assemblage power. About 12,000 Algerians were arrested and "several dozens" were killed, "their bodies thrown into the Seine River." Historians accidental astatine slightest 120 protesters person been killed, immoderate changeable and immoderate drowned successful the Seine River. (AP Photo, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

PARIS – A tribute march was organized connected Sunday successful Paris for the 60th day of the bloody constabulary crackdown connected a protestation by Algerians successful the French capital, during the last twelvemonth of their country’s independency warfare with its assemblage power.

The commemoration comes aft French President Macron acknowledged that “crimes” committed connected Oct. 17, 1961 — which authorities person sought to screen up for decades — were “inexcusable for the Republic.”

“The repression was brutal, violent, bloody” nether orders of Paris constabulary main Maurice Papon, Macron said successful a connection released Saturday. About 12,000 Algerians were arrested and dozens were killed, “their bodies thrown into the Seine River,” the president's bureau said.

Historians accidental astatine slightest 120 protesters died, immoderate changeable and immoderate drowned, according to Macron's office. The nonstop fig has ne'er been established arsenic archives stay partially closed.

Papon aboriginal became the highest-ranking Frenchman convicted of complicity successful crimes against humanity for his relation successful deporting Jews during World War II.

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Human rights and anti-racism groups and Algerian associations successful France staged a tribute march successful Paris connected Sunday afternoon. They called connected authorities to further admit the French state's responsibilities successful the “tragedies and horrors” related to Algeria's independency warfare and to further unfastened up archives.

Earlier Sunday, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo attended a tribute ceremonial astatine the Saint-Michel bridge, successful the capital's metropolis center.

Macron paid tribute to victims connected Saturday astatine the Bezons span implicit the Seine River successful the northwest of Paris. He was the archetypal president to be a commemoration lawsuit for the massacre.

Earlier this year, helium announced a determination to velocity up the declassification of concealed documents related to Algeria’s 1954-62 warfare of independency from France. The caller process was introduced successful August, Macron's bureau said.

The determination was portion of a bid of steps taken by Macron to code France's brutal past with Algeria, which had been nether French regularisation for 132 years until its independency successful 1962.

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In 2018, Macron formally recognized the work of the French authorities successful the 1957 decease of a dissident successful Algeria, Maurice Audin, admitting for the archetypal clip the French military’s usage of systematic torture during the war.

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