Earlier, in his school days, he already noted resentment at having to write down the names of his European colleagues in blue, Muslims in red, and later complained: “My brother returned from Europe with medals and frost-bitten feet! There everyone was equal. Why not here?” On demobilisation Krim broke with his father, who was a retired caid well-trusted by the authorities, and joined the M.T.L.D.

XREF: Connects to broader anti-colonial movements across the Maghreb and the symbolic power of racial classification systems in colonial administration.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 237