Larbi Ben M’hidi

Nationalist organisers decide to launch the FLN

📅 10 Oktober 1954

A meeting of nationalist organisers resolved to transform the CRUA into the Front de libération nationale (FLN) and to begin an armed uprising on 1 November. The decision followed years of political...

French paratroopers arrest FLN leader Larbi Ben M’hidi

📅 23 Februari 1957

French paratroopers arrested Larbi Ben M’hidi, a central FLN leader, during the Battle of Algiers. He was interrogated in military custody and later killed extrajudicially. French authorities...

French forces kill Larbi Ben M’hidi in custody

📅 4 Maart 1957

Larbi Ben M’hidi was killed by French forces after being held in custody; the death was disguised as suicide. His killing was part of a wider pattern of torture, disappearance, and extrajudicial...