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Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and Algerian Consul General in Paris Said Moussi take part in commemorations of the 1961 massacre of Algerian protesters at a rally in Paris to protest a decision to impose a curfew solely on the country's French Algerian minority. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron takes part in commemorations of the massacre by Paris police of protesters at a rally 60 years ago against France's rule in its then-colony Algeria. In a statement from the Élysée Palace, the head of state condemned as "inexcusable" the "crimes" that were committed on the night of October 17, 1961, under the command of the notorious Paris police chief Maurice Papon. IMAGES
Moscow, Jun 21 (EFE).- Russia commemorated Monday the 80th anniversary of Operation Barbossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany during the World War II.The invasion, known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia, began on Jun. 22, 1941. (Camera: MAXIM SHIPENKOV).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE GATHER TO COMMEMORATE THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF OPERATION BARBOSSA, THE GERMAN INVASION OF THE SOVIET UNION, AT THE POKLONNAYA HILL IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA.
San Salvador, Nov 16 (EFE).- El Salvador on Monday marked the 31st anniversary of the massacre of six Jesuit priests and two women on Nov. 16, 1989 - a notorious episode in that Central American country's civil war.The 31st anniversary of the massacre of six Jesuit priests, five of them Spanish, and two women, was marked by a setback in the judicial case, after the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court order to close the perpetrators. On the night of Nov. 16, 1989, a unit of the Salvadoran army's elite Atlacatl Battalion slaughtered Spanish priests Ignacio Ellacuria, Segundo Montes, Ignacio Martin-Baro, Amando Lopez and Juan Ramon Moreno, and Salvadoran Jesuit Joaquin Lopez. Also slain were their cook, Elba Ramos, and her 16-year-old daughter.The only person still behind bars for the massacre is Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benvides, one of the two people sentenced to 30 years in prison in a 1992 trial. (Camera: VLADIMIR CHICAS). SHOT LIST: A COMMEMORATION DEDICATED TO THE JESUIT PRIESTS AND TWO WOMEN KILLED IN 1989 DURING THE CIVIL WAR, SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR.
French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Colombey-les-deux-Eglises cemetery to pay his respects at the tomb of General de Gaulle, who died just 50 years ago, on 9 November 1970, in the village of Haute-Marne, where he had retired (COMPLETES VIDI8UW2ML_EN) IMAGES