The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues

Evidence

As for France, if at every hand in Algeria one could detect the roots, and pattern, of the war of 1954–62, so too in a similar fashion did the civil war between Algerians of the 1990s soon overflow across the Mediterranean. In 1995 and 1996 feuding between rival clans of the GIA brought terrorism to the Paris Metro, killing and wounding over eighty persons. Supposedly aimed at dissuading the French from backing the repression of the Algiers government, in what could have been a hideous preview of 9/11, an Air France plane hijacked, pointedly, on Christmas Eve, 1994, was evidently programmed to be flown suicidally into the Eiffel Tower. The problem of immigration became an ever hotter issue for any French government to handle, as carnage in Algeria—on top of overpopulation—persuaded increasing numbers of Algerians to seek refuge, and employment, in France. In the winter of 2005–6, outbursts of rage in the overcrowded banlieues, with their substandard housing, gave the lie to the Gaullist notion that, with the end of the war in 1962, France could wash its hands of the “Algerian Problem.” Now there are over five million of Algerian extraction living in France. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 46 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 46; French Muslim presence traces to Algeria’s 1830-1962 colonial conquest; Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime. (+5 more)

Related

• Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself (similarity 0.94)
• French Muslim presence traces to Algeria’s 1830-1962 colonial conquest (similarity 0.86)
• F.L.N. terrorism backfired against France more than against Algeria itself (similarity 0.85)
• Nearly 1.4 million pieds noirs resettled in France after Algerian independence (similarity 0.84)
• Most of the million-plus pieds noirs resettled in metropolitan France (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s post-independence civil conflict replicated both the OAS bombings and French counter-terror patterns (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N. coerced Algeria’s Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s post-independence ‘peace’ proved as savage as its war (similarity 0.82)
• Algeria’s 1990s civil war killed roughly 100,000 people. (similarity 0.82)
• The Algerian War was anticolonial, not religious, yet seeded later jihad (similarity 0.81)
• The pied noir exodus far outpaced French government predictions (similarity 0.81)
• Post-war France’s economic boom absorbed over a million pieds noirs. (similarity 0.81)
• The Algerian War killed about one million Muslims and expelled roughly a million settlers (similarity 0.81)
• A lingering Algerian hatred of French rule simmers until it erupts into war (similarity 0.81)
• 1.38 million pieds noirs and Muslim refugees poured into France (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• French Muslim presence traces to Algeria’s 1830-1962 colonial conquest #expands (0.60)
• Algeria’s civil war terrorism carried the conflict into France itself #expands (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 46