During the debate in the municipal council of Paris , on the Paris massacre of 1961 ( 17 October 1961 ) , Alex Moscovitch makes a remark that will be reproached to him . Anne Chemin in Le Monde , of 17 October 2011 , writes : '' " Le 27 octobre 1961 , Claude Bourdet , directeur du magazine France Observateur demande - en vain - une commission d'enquête du conseil municipal de Paris . " Ce qu'il nous faut , c'est très simple et très clair : l'autorisation et suffisamment de bateaux ( pour y mettre les Algériens ) , répond le conseiller Alex Moscovitch . Le problème qui consisterait à faire couler ces bateaux ne relève pas , hélas , du conseil municipal de Paris . " '' ( ' '' " The weaker , they finished them until death " ' '' . The circumstances of the death of a hundred Algerian demonstrators killed by the police on October 17 , 1961 , in Paris , have long been overshadowed : '' " On October 27 , 1961 , Claude Bourdet , director of the magazine France Observateur , asked in vain for a commission of inquiry from the Paris municipal council . What we need is very simple and clear : the authorization and enough boats ( to put the Algerians there ) , " replied Councilor Alex Moscovitch . The problem of sinking these boats is not , alas , the responsibility of the municipal council of Paris . " '' )
Paris massacre of 1961
Paris massacre of 1961
Alex Moscovitch