Algerian war: the story of Jean-Marie Le Pen's nazi dagger.
On the morning of March 3, 1957, Mohamed Cherif Moulay, 12, discovered a dagger in the entrance hallway of the family home in the Casbah of Algiers. Hanging from a khaki-colored belt, the weapon lay in a dark corner. It was forgotten by the French paratroopers who had subjected his father to "the question" (the french army's euphemism for a torture seance) the night before. Ahmed Moulay, 42, was tortured with water and electricity, in front of his six children and his wife, before being finished off with a burst of machine gun fire. The tortured man had the corners of his mouth slashed with a knife. An army statement announced that he had been shot while trying to escape. When he found this dagger, Mohamed Cherif Moulay hid it in the cupboard of the electric meter in the entrance hall.
The paratroopers returned twice in the following days and ransacked the house. To no avail. The child remained silent. Rania Moulay went to the police station to file a complaint. She was told: "Your husband died during a settling of scores between fellaghas." When a white priest, Father Nicolas, learned of the incident, he became indignant and intervened. The police finally opened an investigation. "So that they would be forced to admit that it was not fellaghas but French soldiers who had killed my father, I gave them the khaki canvas belt, but not the dagger that I had detached from the belt and kept," recalls Mohamed Cherif Moulay, now 67 years old. The investigation would be a deadend.
The dagger ended up in the buffet in the Moulays' dining room. It would remain there until April 2003, when the special correspondent of Le Monde in Algiers managed to bring it back to France. This piece of evidence was be presented to the 17th chamber, during the defamation trial brought by Jean-Marie Le Pen against Le Monde, on May 15.
Made of hardened steel, 25 centimeters long and 2.5 centimeters wide, it is a knife of the type used by the Hitler Youth, manufactured by German cutlers from the Ruhr, according to the investigation conducted by the journalist Sorj Chalandon. The blade bears the name of J.A. Henckels, a manufacturer in Solingen. The handle, partly covered in black bakelite, is inlaid with a diamond whose crest fell off in the 1970s, after being handled by the Moulay children. On the scabbard of the dagger, one can read: J. M. Le Pen, 1er REP.
Source: https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2012/03/16/le-grand-blond-au-poignard_1669337_3212.html
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