Mujahedeen Minister pays tribute to memory of 17 October’s Algerian victims

Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:07
PARIS- Minister of Mujahedeen (War Veterans) Tayeb Zitouni paid Wednesday, in Paris, tribute to the memory of the Algerian victims of the massacres of 17 October 1961 in Paris.

On the second day of his visit to France, the first of its kind, the minister paid tribute to the memory of the Algerian victims at Saint-Michel Bridge, where a commemorative plaque was affixed on the wall of the bank from which hundreds of Algerians were thrown in The Seine.

He was accompanied by French Secretary of State for Veterans and Memory Jean-Marc Todeschini.

Previously, Tayeb Zitouni laid a wreath of flowers on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the First World War at the Triumphal Arch.