The O.A.S. extorted pieds noirs with surveillance and threats

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 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend; Pied noir civilians enthusiastically participated in killing O.A.S. targets directly — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1504; Surveillance block-wardens ultimately lost loyalty or were assassinated (+1 more)

Related

• Pied noir civilians enthusiastically participated in killing O.A.S. targets directly (similarity 0.93)
• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend (similarity 0.88)
• The murder of elderly charwomen shocked even the O.A.S. (similarity 0.87)
• The O.A.S. continued assassinating de Gaulle long after Algeria fell. (similarity 0.83)
• Desperation drove the poorer pieds noirs to rally to the O.A.S. as their protector (similarity 0.83)
• The sacrificial barbouzes served as a decoy that exposed the OAS (similarity 0.83)
• O.A.S. murders in late 1961 were indiscriminate and grossly exceeded their intended targets (similarity 0.82)
• Pied noir militants read self-determination as betrayal of the war dead (similarity 0.82)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.81)
• Pied noir civilians burned wounded barbouzes alive as they fled (similarity 0.80)
• France deliberately sacrificed its barbouze operatives to distract the O.A.S. (similarity 0.80)
• The pied noir lobby immediately demanded violent suppression of the revolt (similarity 0.80)
• The O.A.S. terror campaign backfired and sped French withdrawal from Algeria. (similarity 0.79)
• Pied noir soldiers balked at shooting Muslim demonstrators to save Algérie française (similarity 0.79)
• Pied noir settlers plotted repeatedly to kill de Gaulle over Algeria (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• O.A.S. terror drove out the very pieds noirs it claimed to defend #expands (0.70)
• Surveillance block-wardens ultimately lost loyalty or were assassinated #expands (0.60)
• Pied noir civilians enthusiastically participated in killing O.A.S. targets directly #contradicts (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1504
• O.A.S. murders in late 1961 were indiscriminate and grossly exceeded their intended targets #qualifies (0.40)