2e RCP arrested a prominent young lawyer and FLN sympathiser Ali Boumendjel
Saturday Feb 9, 1957 Algeria
On 9 February, paratroopers of the 2nd Parachute Chasseur Regiment (2e RCP) arrested a prominent young lawyer and FLN sympathiser Ali Boumendjel. After attempting suicide Boumendjel volunteered everything he knew, including his involvement in the murder of a European family.
