Meanwhile, Delouvrier was using Colonel Dufour—the officer most respected by Lagaillarde, the ex-para—to “negotiate terms”. By that night a most remarkable “deal” had been concluded. Lagaillarde’s men would be permitted to march out of their “Alcazar” as “soldiers”, bearing arms, and would be accorded full honours by Dufour’s 1st R.E.P. But they would not be allowed to march through the town; instead, they would be loaded into trucks and transported inconspicuously out to the R.E.P. base at Zéralda, where those who so wished could opt to join a unit attached to the Foreign Legion and fighting with them out in the bled. There would be a free pardon for all—except the leaders of the insurrection.

XREF: Connects to the broader pattern of negotiated surrender in the Algerian War and French colonial crises, where the state often granted honors to armed opponents to avoid escalation.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1124