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Algerian War

Ali La Pointe assassinated the Mayor of Boufarik and President of the Federation of Mayors of Algeria

Friday Dec 28, 1956
Algeria

On 28 December 1956, on the orders of Ben M'hidi, Ali La Pointe assassinated the Mayor of Boufarik and President of the Federation of Mayors of Algeria, Amedee Froger outside his house on Rue Michelet. The following day, a bomb exploded in the cemetery where Froger was to be buried; enraged European civilians responded by carrying out random revenge attacks (ratonnade), killing four Muslims and injuring 50.


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