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In the collective imagination France is a paradise of democracy, as French invented it with their famous revolution.

Of course  the guillotine was a French invention too and looks as a good symbol for this song and its subject: the French colonialism in Algeria.

Without watering down the whole history of Algeria, it might be enough to look at the horror of  the "Paris massacre".

On October 17th 1961, Maurice Papon, previously collaborationist of the Vichy Republic, chief of police in Paris decides to ban demonstrations and to prevent riots  based on ethnicity: all the North-Africans were subject to a curfew and gathering was forbidden. But Algerians, eager to demonstrate for the independence of their country organized a peaceful mass demonstration. The reaction of Papon and  the police was terrifying: 200 people killed and hundred injured. Unarmed protesters were attacked even with pickaxes and dumped injured or dead in the Seine. Witnesses told that the Seine looked red and in the following days the bodies re-emerged at Pont Saint-Michel.

Considering this massacre in their capital city, imagine what the inventors of the guillotine were able to do in Africa: executions, tortures and deportations of millions of people.

 

Black feet

الأقدام السوداء

Back home

العودة إلى المنزل

No house

دون منزل

Spit and slap

بصق وصفع

Black feet to Salazar

الأقدام السوداء لسالازار

Then to Franco

ثم إلى فرانكو

Then Pinochet

ثم بينوشيه
Black feet

الأقدام السوداء

Kings of torture

ملوك التعذيب

Bombing villages

قصف القرى

Moving people

تحريك الناس

Black feet

الأقدام السوداء

Dark soul

روح الظلام

Nazi methods to export

الأساليب النازية للتصدير

 

FLN beats up all of you

جبهة التحرير الوطني يتغلب عليكم جميعا 

Sometimes the truth re-emerges

في بعض الأحيان تظهر الحقيقة من جديد

Sometimes a body re-emerges

في بعض الأحيان يضهر جسد من جديد

Pont Saint-Michel remembers you

يتذكرك جسر سان ميشيل

FLN beats up all of you

جبهة التحرير الوطني يتغلب عليكم جميعا 

 

 Black feet founded OAS

الأقدام السوداء أسسوا منظمة الجيش السري 

Inspiration for CIA

إلهام لوكالة المخابرات المركزية

French out of Vietnam

الفرنسيون خارج فيتنام

French out of Algeria

الفرنسيون خارج الجزائر

Black feet founded OAS

الأقدام السوداء أسسوا منظمة الجيش السري 

Inspiration for all the fascists

إلهام لكل الفاشيين

Thousands of death in the heart

الآف من الموت في القلب

FLN in the heart of Algeria

جبهة التحرير الوطني في قلب الجزائر

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