The F.L.N. waged an internecine war in Paris killing hundreds annually by 1960.
Evidence
In 1960 the killings reached a crescendo as the F.L.N. stepped up its campaign to achieve total ascendancy. Barely a day went by without a corpse fished out of the Seine, or found hanging in the Bois de Boulogne. A favourite place of reckoning was the quiet Canal Saint-Martin, flowing towards the Bastille in the east of Paris, which with hideous regularity yielded up its crop of sacks containing the disfigured bodies of Algerians. As during the Battle of Algiers, women were often employed as executioners’ “liaisons”; they would take a pistol concealed in a handbag to the appointed place, slip it to the killer, then take it back immediately the deed was done, to disappear silently into the crowd. Under the blanket of terror successfully imposed by the F.L.N., the French police received a minimum of information — even from the relatives of victims — with which to track down the terrorists. Meanwhile, the perfected system of fund-raising was bringing in from the Paris region alone something like three hundred million francs a month. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1254
Categorization
- XREF: Canal Saint-Martin sack-murders echo later paramilitary disappearances and the use of accomplices in silent crowd cover. — connects to: Mélouza massacre grew from F.L.N.-M.N.A. rivalry, not solely French action; During 1960 the F.L.N. waged a war of terror against the M.N.A. inside Paris; The F.L.N. adopted total war against French civilians in direct retaliation.
Related
- During 1960 the F.L.N. waged a war of terror against the M.N.A. inside Paris (similarity 0.92)
- MĂ©louza massacre grew from F.L.N.-M.N.A. rivalry, not solely French action (similarity 0.88)
- The F.L.N. moved its terrorism into metropolitan France in summer 1958 (similarity 0.82)
- The F.L.N. adopted total war on civilians as its strategy (similarity 0.80)
- The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.80)
- The F.L.N. adopted total war against French civilians in direct retaliation. (similarity 0.80)
- F.L.N. shifted its terrorist focus to metropolitan France (similarity 0.79)
- F.L.N. attacks on French schools were targeted war against French culture, not random savagery (similarity 0.79)
- French retaliation massacres played directly into the F.L.N.’s strategy (similarity 0.78)
- F.L.N. annihilated the rival M.N.A. militia with French troops watching passively (similarity 0.78)