Algiers averaged thirty to forty killings a day in early 1962

Evidence

Cities that had once enjoyed the flashy late-night existence of an Alicante now became East Berlins — but East Berlins ruled by the mores of Chicago of the “Roaring Twenties”. (Indeed, the parallel of Chicago fixed itself on the minds of the French security forces so that an alerte Chicago become the standard code-name flashed between patrol cars to designate a strounga or a killing. But, as C. L. Sulzberger pointed out at the time, “more people in Algiers die violently each day than in the Midwestern city’s gaudiest era”.) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1506 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The sudden deaths of Algerians in hospitals, a common occurrence in any establishment caring for the sick and the injured, are interpreted as the effects of a murderous and deliberate decision, as the result of criminal maneuvers on the part of the European doctor. The Algerian’s refusal to be hospitalized is always more or less related to that lingering doubt as to the colonial doctor’s essential humanity. It needs to be said, too, although it is not the rule, that in certain hospital services experimentation on living patients is practiced to an extent that cannot be considered negligible. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 404 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Daily mass killings in Algiers normalised death to the point of passers-by ignoring victims.; Algiers under the O.A.S. suffered more daily violent deaths than Prohibition-era Chicago — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1506; Algerian deaths in hospitals were read as deliberate European murder. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 404

Related

• Daily mass killings in Algiers normalised death to the point of passers-by ignoring victims. (similarity 0.96)
• Algiers under the O.A.S. suffered more daily violent deaths than Prohibition-era Chicago (similarity 0.90)
• Algerian deaths in hospitals were read as deliberate European murder. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Algiers under the O.A.S. suffered more daily violent deaths than Prohibition-era Chicago #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1506
• Algerian deaths in hospitals were read as deliberate European murder. #complicates (0.30) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 404