Jean-Marie Le Pen served as a paratrooper in Algiers. Multiple witnesses placed him at torture sessions. He came home, founded the National Front, and built his political career on the rage of a million Europeans who felt France had betrayed them linktr.ee/empirepoduk
The daughter of a man who tortured Algerians in the Casbah leads the largest opposition party in France — built partly on the votes of the grandchildren of the very Algerians her father helped dispossess. The wound France refused to treat is now the wound driving its politics linktr.ee/empirepoduk
In this year's French election, the grandchildren of Algerian immigrants face off against the heirs of the dispossessed pieds-noirs. Two communities, one colonial wound, one ballot box. There are few places on earth where the history of empire casts a longer shadow. 🎙️ linktr.ee/empirepoduk
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