The Paris massacre of 1961 occurred on 17 October 1961, during the Algerian War (1954–62). Under orders from the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon, the French National Police attacked a demonstration by 30,000 pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians. After 37 years of denial and censorship of the press, in 1998 the French government finally acknowledged 40 deaths, although there are estimates of 100 to 300 victims. Death was due to heavy-handed beating by the police, as well as mass drownings, as police officers threw demonstrators into the river Seine.
There were multiple episodes of violence between French police and the French Algerian community during the Algerian War. The police department was racist on an institutional level and terrorized Algerians with violence; pro-liberation Algerians targeted and killed police with bombing campaigns.
It was in this context that the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon (a former Nazi collaborator later convicted of crimes against humanity) ordered police to kill Algerians, insisting that they would be protected from any consequences.
Under these orders, the French National Police attacked a demonstration by 30,000 pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians on October 17th, beating dozens to death and throwing people into the Seine river, where many drowned.
Forty years after the massacre, on 17 October 2001, Bertrand Delanoë, the Socialist Mayor of Paris, put up a plaque in remembrance of the massacre on the Pont Saint-Michel. How many demonstrators were killed is still unclear. In the absence of official estimates, the plaque commemorating the massacre reads, "In memory of the many Algerians killed during the bloody repression of the peaceful demonstration of 17 October 1961"
October 17, 1961: A massacre of Algerians in the heart of Paris 
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i've got a growing suspicion that people are thinking about "the wall" in terms not of political/strategic expedience, but in terms of "this person is really bad"
they ain't make no bad person yet a stable socialist society wouldn't be able to serve restorative justice to
Online communist spaces are actually so bloodthirsty it scares me sometimes lol
They deserve reeducation and compassion.
In the absence of such a restorative justice system we'll keep fantasizing about merking fuckwits tho.
Theres a lot of rich people who should face their crimes and i believe death is suitable for many of them
There are 3 types of people. 1People who will work to further communism, 2 People who might help communism, and 3 People who will work to subvert communism. 2 gets reeducation 3 gets the wall as quickly as they are identified.
"Good and bad" morality doesn't factor in to it.
skill issue. Cuba is under siege and still sparsely uses that tool. you gonna tell me nobody's worked to subvert communism in cuba since 2003?
Cuba has had 70 years to get where they are. It isn't skill that made them stop using the wall. Its because they used the wall that there is no no credible threats to communism. Having Usa somewhat willingly take over a million gusanos also kept the overall wall usage down.