The event carries in itself a great political and historical symbolism. The memorial question could be fleshed out by other gestures from the French side.
The bust bearing the effigy of Maurice Audin was inaugurated yesterday in the prestigious square that bears his name in the heart of Algiers-Centre. The atmosphere was at its peak, the friends and activists who knew this illustrious activist of the anti-colonial cause, of the defense of just causes and of progress, did not hide their joy and happiness to see Maurice Audin regain his aura. so tarnished by the negligence of colonial thought and its substitutes.
Maurice Audin is among his people, a communist who was right in recognizing himself as an Algerian not only concerned with the pain and suffering of his peers, that is to say Algerians like him who languished under the domination and rampant colonial exploitation.
The presence of a considerable number of people and Algerian officials in the inauguration ceremony of the bust bearing the effigy of Maurice Audin, provides information on the sure and inestimable value of this valiant son of Algeria who gave his life to make heard and known the cause of his country which was under the influence of one of the most macabre settlement policies of colonial France.
The representatives of the association Josette and Maurice Audin and the Algerian officials through the minister of the Mujahideen got on the same wavelength to shed light on those responsible for his disappearance.
The event carries in itself a great political and historical symbolism. The memory question, which remains the real headache that prevents Algeria and France from moving towards more peaceful relations, could this time be fleshed out by other gestures on the French side.
Admittedly, President Emmanuel Macron distinguished himself compared to his predecessors on the question of memory and on the war and the crimes committed by colonial France against the Algerian people during the long colonial night which lasted more than 132 years. .
The work of memory, truth and reconciliation between the Algerian and French peoples is being done even if it started in a timid way. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, had criticized the colonial system, during a trip to Algiers in February 2017, and in 2018, “the recognition of the responsibility of the French State in the death of the mathematician Maurice Audin, who died in 1957 in Algiers”. Another initiative was started by the French president consisting in “returning to Algiers the skulls of the Algerians killed in 1849 during the conquest of the country, and whose remains had been kept at the Musée de l’homme, in Paris”.
These initiatives, which the predecessors of the current president, Emmanuel Macron, did not dare to take, make Macron a president who knew how to unbolt the drawers of memory by ensuring that relations between Algeria and France must come out of the passion to be part of a logic of the future.
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