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kids Algerian War: The Death of ALI THE POINTE

One of the tasks of the Algerian FLN in the Casbah of Algiers during its war of independence against France was clean of undesirable elements, pimps, drug dealers, criminals should be put at the service of the cause or eliminated.

The Casbah of Algiers

The dome was formed by intellectuals FLN Algerians for that task required men of action. Ali la Pointe was illiterate, the Casbah violent man who was recruited by the FLN and without the ideological basis the leadership demonstrated great loyalty to the organization until his last day alive. The struggle for independence was the redemption of a dark past.

Brahim Hadjadj, the actor who played so convincingly in the Pointe Ali in "The Battle of Algiers" of Pontecorvo.

Ali la Pointe wiped the Casbah and authority figure and came to be recognized. Mafia old patterns came under their fire.

During 1957, the FLN leaders were captured or killed by falling French forces. Torture by electric shocks or submarine of thousands of militants and civilians who had nothing to do was the result of using the 10th Colonial Parachute Regiment and the Parachute Regiment in the Foreign Legion in Algiers police tasks.

Tte. COL. Jeanpierre, who died in Marmara in 1958

These units were commanded by many officers who had passed through the Nazi concentration camps and then re-education camps of the Vietminh in Indochina. Some of them brought the "evil yellow" a way of thinking influenced by the Vietnam experience. Thought they knew the antidote to all hoist a national front and applied it on orders from the civilian government of Paris.

Detention and torture in Algiers

By October 1957 there was only Ali la Pointe. Located in the streets of the Casbah Abderaman May, his house was surrounded on October 7 at night by the Legionaries of 1st Lt. commanding REP. COL. Jeanpierre.

Ali la Pointe is locked into an opening in the wall with a false lid with Ben Hassiba Boualia, Bouhamidi Hamid and Omar, a boy of 13 who had email from the leadership of the FLN.

Hassiba Ben Boualia

shot from "The Battle of Algiers"

At dawn on October 8 Legion sappers placed explosive charges in the wall. They were warned several times by megaphone to surrender, but Ali la Pointe was not a man willing to spend even one day in the colonial dungeons.

After 6 o'clock in the morning gave the order to detonate the explosives. It was like an earthquake. The charges detonated by the latest bombs sympathy that hid the FLN. Houses in the Casbah support each other. The explosion caused the collapse of Abderaman 3, 5 and 7. Several Legionnaires were shocked and wounded. The evacuation of residents had not covered enough for such a crater. Many were under the rubble.

French authorities gave orders to find the body of Ali la Pointe. It was essential to demonstrate to the Casbah Algerian FLN in Algiers that had been completely beheaded.

Legionnaires equipment removed debris two days. Showed the bodies of four members of the FLN. Ali la Pointe was recognized by his tattoos. In addition, neighbors found the bodies of twelve adults and four children.

Street Abderaman 5 today

Ali la Pointe was 27. In July 1962, less than five years after Algeria declared its independence.