ABSTRACT
In November 1956, Fernand Yveton, a member of the Combattants de la Libération (Freedom Fighters), planted a bomb at the Hamma power station, an attempted sabotage, which can in no way equate with a terrorist action. Analysis proved that it was a time bomb precisely set so that the explosion could not occur before the personnel had left. To no avail: Yveton was arrested, sentenced to death, a reprieve was refused, he was executed. Not the slightest hesitation: this man declared and proved that he did not wish to kill anyone, but we wanted to kill him, and we did so without wavering. We had to look intimidating, didn’t we? And, as one idiot said the other day, ‘show the terrible face of an angry France’. How pure and how sure of your purity you need to be to dare to dispense this archangel’s Justice! And even if we agreed with them for a moment that this absurd war has some sense, can we not see what the French military and civilian population would have to demand of
themselves if they were to hope to justify the dreadful severity of this sentence?
