36 SENTENCED TO DEATH Massacre Trial
In Algeria (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) PHILIPPEVILLE (Algeria), March 8. A military court has sentenced 36 Moslem Algerians to death—2l of them in their absence —for the massacre of 36 Europeans in August, 1955. The Court sentenced seven Moslems to hard labour for life, two to 20 years’ hard labour and 19 to prison terms for their part in the massacre. One man, Mohamed Alioua. was acquitted. The night curfew was lifted to allow the public to attend the closing session of the trial which opened on February 17. The Court took 12 hours to consider its verdict. The prosecution alleged that 36 persons, including 12 children and several women, were slaughtered with firearms, axes, picks and
knives when Moslems attacked the iron mining village of El Hamia, and the neighbouring marble quarries of Fil-Fila on August 20, 1955.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28532, 11 March 1958, Page 11
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