Outbreak of the Algerian War

Just after France had to accept the loss of its colony in Indo China, the next crisis emerges in French Algeria: On 1 November 1954 a series of attacks take place across the country against the colonial power’s representatives and public institutions.

© Mongella L'Echo d'Alger quoting the minister of the interior Francois Mitterand on it's front page: „Algeria is France and France does not admit another authority in Algeria than it's own.“

The newly-founded „National Liberation Front“ (FLN) under the leadership of Ahmed Ben Bella is behind the attacks. They mark the beginning of a nearly eight-year-long, incessant and bloody war of liberation which will lead to Algeria’s independence in 1962.