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A rifleman killed during the Thiaroye massacre is being honored during the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the tragedy in Thiaroye, Senegal, on December 1, 2024.
French administrative justice recognized on Friday that the State was at fault for not having implemented the “means likely to shed light on the precise circumstances” surrounding the death of one of the African riflemen massacred by the French army in 1944 in Thiaroye, Senegal.
In a press release, the Paris administrative court, which had been seized by the son of one of the riflemen killed in 1944, noted that the French authorities, after having “delivered several erroneous information” to the soldier’s family in the years following his death, had then “not implemented all the means (…) at their disposal to shed light on the precise circumstances of his death as well as on his place of burial.”
On December 1, 1944, the French army opened fire on these riflemen from several West African countries, who had fought for France and were demanding their pay.
The circumstances of the killing, the number of victims, and their burial locations remain unclear to this day.
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