Thirty to forty percent of Casbah men were arrested during the battle

Evidence

The numbers of Muslim suspects passing through the hands of the paras as a result of the D.P.U. and the other forms of intelligence collection ran into enormous figures, with Edward Behr reckoning that between thirty and forty per cent of the entire male population of the Casbah were arrested at some point or other during the course of the Battle of Algiers. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 589

Categorization

• QUESTION: What were the total numbers involved, and what proportion were released without charge?
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 589