Insofar as Krim was Courrière’s source concerning the death of Abane, it should be remembered that Krim was an interested party and possibly had an axe to grind against his former colleagues. He was in fact murdered, in sinister circumstances, while in exile years after the war. On the other hand, neither his nor Lebjaoui’s account—nor a similar version which appeared in the widely circulated Historia magazine series, “La Guerre d’Algérie”, has been refuted by any Algerian source. In Algiers in 1984 a senior Algerian official told the author simply: Abane “was helped to suicide”.

QUESTION: The accounts come from interested parties and are unrefuted rather than confirmed. Is the 'helped to suicide' euphemism verifiable from Algerian sources?

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 724