Pied noir civilians enthusiastically participated in killing O.A.S. targets directly

Evidence

Hacq now decided that the remaining barbouzes had to be got out of the country, but once again Degueldre struck first. The last barbouze detachment of twenty-five men was trapped in a seedy hotel and submitted to a siege continuing forty-eight hours without the Algiers police making any effort to intervene. Four survivors tried to break out by car to get a wounded comrade to hospital, but were shot up on the way. Out of control, their car ran into a wall, and a terrible scene now took place. Pied noir occupants of the neighbouring apartment blocks rushed up, prevented the injured men from getting out of the car, then set fire to it and danced jubilant round the flaming pyre. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1504

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier material on vigilante violence and the degradation of the settler population in Algeria across the war. — connects to: The O.A.S. extorted pieds noirs with surveillance and threats; O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend; The murder of elderly charwomen shocked even the O.A.S. (+1 more)

Related

• The O.A.S. extorted pieds noirs with surveillance and threats (similarity 0.93)
• The murder of elderly charwomen shocked even the O.A.S. (similarity 0.90)
• Pied noir civilians burned wounded barbouzes alive as they fled (similarity 0.84)
• Pied noir soldiers balked at shooting Muslim demonstrators to save Algérie française (similarity 0.81)
• Pied noir civilians treated a deadly frontier battle as a public spectacle. (similarity 0.81)
• Desperation drove the poorer pieds noirs to rally to the O.A.S. as their protector (similarity 0.81)
• Pied noir militants read self-determination as betrayal of the war dead (similarity 0.80)
• The barbouzes suffered ambush almost immediately after arriving in Algiers (similarity 0.80)
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend (similarity 0.79)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.79)
• The pied noir lobby immediately demanded violent suppression of the revolt (similarity 0.79)
• The sacrificial barbouzes served as a decoy that exposed the OAS (similarity 0.79)
• The O.A.S. continued assassinating de Gaulle long after Algeria fell. (similarity 0.79)
• Killing French conscripts turned the army decisively against the O.A.S. (similarity 0.78)