Ariane Chemin
Ariane Chemin (b. 1962) is a senior reporter for Le Monde. She previously worked for the French daily’s politics and society sections.
Updated: 17 October 2011
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By Ariane Chemin
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France : A new army of ghosts haunts Corsica
1 November 201220822 Le Monde Paris -
France: Long history of a forgotten massacre
17 October 201158210 Le Monde Paris
Never mind Sicily or Naples, the most crime-ridden European region is what the French call "the Isle of Beauty" — Corsica. There, nationalists and racketeers, who are sometimes one and the same, are regularly felled by bullets. A journalist from French daily Le Monde took a “murder tour” of the sites of these crimes that everyone knows about but which are cloaked in a shroud of silence. 
Exactly 50 years ago today, between 100 and 200 Algerians, who were taking part in a peaceful demonstration, were murdered by Paris police. After decades of official cover-up, the collective memory of the events of 17 October 1961 is finally being restored.