"Parliament also formally demanded an apology and reparations from Paris in a move that seeks to redress attempts to sweep the issue aside. The law assigns France legal responsibility for its colonial past in Algeria and the tragedies it caused, placing historical accountability at the centre of the state's legal framework. While analysts say the law carries no enforceable international weight, its political impact is significant, signalling a rupture in how Algeria engages France over colonial memory."
"The text catalogues crimes of French colonial rule, including nuclear tests, extrajudicial killings, physical and psychological torture and the systematic plundering of resources. It also asserts that full and fair compensation for all material and moral damages caused by French colonisation is an inalienable right of the Algerian state and people. France brutally ruled Algeria from 1830 to 1962 through a system marked by torture, enforced disappearances, massacres, economic exploitation, mass killings and large-scale deportations and marginalisation of the country's indigenous Muslim population."
Algeria's parliament unanimously passed legislation declaring French colonisation a crime and demanding apology and reparations from Paris. Law assigns France legal responsibility for colonial abuses and places historical accountability at the centre of state law. Lawmakers approved the bill while wearing national scarves and chanting "Long live Algeria." The text catalogues colonial crimes including nuclear tests, extrajudicial killings, physical and psychological torture, and systematic plundering of resources. It affirms the inalienable right of the Algerian state and people to full and fair compensation for material and moral damages. The measure has symbolic political impact despite limited international enforceability.
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