Algerians In Paris Warned By Police

Press, Volume C, Issue 29638, 7 October 1961, Page 11

Algerians In Paris Warned By Police

(N .2 J’.A.-Reuter— Copyright) I* ARIS, October 5. A grim warning was issued to North Africans in Paris tonight: “If you must go out at night, go out by yourself. Otherwise police might mistake you for Algerian terrorists.”

In fact, the wisest course was not to go out at all between 830 pm. and 5.30 am. The warning is part of a new “get-tOugh” campaign with terrorists who have killed 280 Paris policemen in seven years, eight of them in the last four months. The police announcement pointed out that most terrorist attacks were carried out by gangs of three or four, so all groups of North Africans "ran the risk of appearing suspicious to police patrols.” In another measure today, cafes and bars run by, or frequented by. North Africans were ordered to close at 7 p.m. in future. The authorities have expelled from France recently about 1000 Algerian Moslems who have been unable to

give valid reasons for their presence in thescountry. They were »ent back to their home villages in Algeria where they have to report to the authorities once a week. Earlier this week, the Paris Police Prefect, Mr Maurice Papon, who waa attending the funeral of a policeman killed by North Africans, warned Algerian gunmen that “for each blow received we shall return 100." Visit Likely Reports in Paris aay that President de Gaulle may go to Algeria next month. His last trip to Algeria started riots in which 61 people were killed, the British United Press reported. French officials are quoted as saying that such a trip “cannot be excluded.” It is believed that if President de Gaulle made the trip it would Involve the institution of his three-stage plan to prepare Algeria for three elections leading to independence. It would also enable him to meet General Ahmed Rata, named on Wednesday as an infantry commander in Algeria and who is believed to be President de Gaulles choice to lead a 50,000-man all-Moslem force to supervise any such elections.

The three-stage plan sails for selection of a MoslemEuropean Parliament which would phoose a Moslem-con-trolled Provisional Council which would then name an executive caretaker government to supervise the elections.

Explosions In Algeria Last night, a chain of explosions brought death, injury and destruction to Algiers and other major Algerian cities.

Six Moslems were Injured as 11 bomta exploded in Algiers and suburbs. Near Saida. western Algeria, an 11-year-old Moslem child was “blown to pieces” police said, when he picked up a concealed bomb. In Oran, police said four Europeans were slightly injured last night in a series of bomb blasts that shook the city’s centre.

Bombs badly damaged a yacht anchored in the harbour and a Moslem grocery, and set Are to a liquor store, causing much of the liquor itself to explode. Plastic charge explosions also occurred in Sidl-Bel-Abbes and Constantine.