Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo swam in the Seine river ahead of the Olympics, the same river where around 63 years ago the French pol

◾Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo swam in the Seine river ahead of the Olympics, the same river where around 63 years ago the French police threw the bodies of murdered Algerian protestors: ◾On 17 October 1961 around 30,000 Algerians had taken to the streets of Paris in a peaceful protest against a curfew, and calling for independence nearly seven years into the war against French rule in North Africa, which had occasionally spilled onto the streets of the French capital, the police killed at least 100 protesters, some of whom were thrown into the River Seine, making it one of the darkest pages of France’s chequered colonial history... some official documents survived revealing the extent of the killings. “There were a lot of bodies. Some with the skulls crushed, others with shotgun wounds,“ she said. One photo captured the chilling sentiments of the time, showing graffiti scrawled along a section of the Seine’s embankment saying: “Here we drown Algerians.“ ◾Follow: Source: Fearless John - @European_dissident