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(en) France, UCL AL #348 - Culture, Read Fabrice Riceputi: Le Pen and torture. Algiers 1957, history against oblivion (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Date Sun, 5 May 2024 08:19:17 +0300


In February 2023, a series of podcasts Jean-Marie Le Pen, l'obsession nationale is broadcast on the France Inter website. The producer Philippe Colin affirms, in addition to the words of the historian Benjamin Stora, that "soldier Le Pen undoubtedly did not practice torture in Algeria". Fabrice Riceputi, like others, is amazed. If during its radio broadcast, in the summer of 2023, the comment was modified saying that "we cannot prove that Jean-Marie Le Pen was tortured in Algeria but it is a possibility", basically nothing change, Le Pen is cleared. Yet he himself affirmed in November 1962: "I have nothing to hide. I tortured because I had to."

Fabrice Riceputi, former student of Pierre Vidal-Naquet, co-host with historian Malika Rahal of the site 1000autre.org which documents cases of violence, torture and executions committed by the French army in Algeria, then launches into an operation salutary : document as a historian the practices of MP Jean-Marie Le Pen, who volunteered as a lieutenant in the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment in Algeria and who took part in the first months of what the authorities called the "battle of Algiers".

Fabrice Riceputi then methodically takes up all the pieces of the file which he meticulously restores: the changes in Le Pen's versions over the decades and his political rise; his stay as a volunteer during his four months in Algeria; his "bloody journey" in Algiers and finally the undertaking, so far relatively profitable, of calling into question the credibility of Algerian witnesses and victims.

Riceputi's work perfectly illustrates the systemic racism that has persisted since colonial times. Systemic racism of which Le Pen was one of the most zealous promoters and which, even today, smears the victims and whitewashes the executioners. But from now on, once this work is closed, we will be able to affirm following Pierre Vidal-Naquet that "it would be defaming Le Pen to say that he did not torture".

David (UCL Savoies)

Fabrice Riceputi, Le Pen and torture. Algiers 1957, history against oblivion, The Clandestine Passenger, 144 pages, 17 euros

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Fabrice-Riceputi-Le-Pen-et-la-torture-Alger-1957-l-histoire-contre-l-oubli
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