Elite paratroop leaders hesitated to fire on Muslim demonstrators

Evidence

As always when the paras were confronted with having to make a direct choice between the pieds noirs and the Muslims, especially when it involved shooting demonstrators, ambivalence set in. The colonel was disgusted by an F.A.F. leader who warned him that he could hold his men back no longer, and that there would be a ratonnade. He reminded him that “I too am a pied noir, and get it into your head that there cannot be any Algérie française without the Arabs!” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1313

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• XREF: connects to: Paratroop officers grew ambivalent about coup plotting against Muslims.

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