Macron: crackdown on 1961 Algerian protest ‘unforgivable’

French president attends memorial for those killed and lays flowers at bridge over the Seine

Emmanuel Macron has described a bloody police crackdown on Algerian anti-war demonstrators 60 years ago that led to many deaths as an unforgivable" crime.

Attending a memorial for those killed, Macron laid flowers at a bridge over the River Seine which marked a starting point for the protests in October 1961 that led to one of the darkest chapters of French postwar history.