France punished hundreds of officers for brutality but without affecting their careers.

Evidence

In interviews with the author, Lacoste stated that he had “punished 480 officers for brutalisation”; Teitgen, however, counters that none of the punished suffered any serious setbacks to their careers. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 643

Categorization

• QUESTION: What form did the punishment take if careers were unaffected? An interesting gap between nominal discipline and real consequence.