Veteran F.L.N. leader Froger’s assassination aimed to deepen communal fracture

Evidence

With the F.L.N. clearly winning more points in Algiers than out in the bled, Yacef, in agreement with his superior, Ben M’hidi, decided to exacerbate further the rift between the two communities by assassinating a prominent pied noir leader. The victim selected was seventy-four-year-old Amédée Froger, the “ultra” mayor of Boufarik and President of the Federation of Mayors of Algeria, a distinguished ancien combattant from the First World War and a figure of considerable power and influence; the assassin, Ali Amara, was better known as Ali la Pointe. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 560

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the book’s framing of revolutionary violence as deliberate strategy to polarize communities, compare with Horn’s analysis of ‘savage war of peace’ concept.

Related

• Algerian revolutionaries split between moderates and hard-liners over the pied noir presence (similarity 0.78)
• Pied noir factions demanded a second front against FLN and Paris alike. (similarity 0.78)