In a spontaneous reprisal, some of their comrades, led by an informer from Trinquier's D.P.U. to a Turkish bath that was supposed to be a hideout of the F.L.N., sub-machine-gunned all and sundry in it. Nearly eighty Muslims were reported killed; a number of them were poor beggars who habitually came in to find night-time shelter in the baths. Not one of the paras involved was ever brought to justice, although their identity was said to be known at the Gouvernement-Général.

FICTION: A clandestine reprisal killing in a Turkish bath, sanctioned by silence from authorities, holds strong story material for historical fiction or thriller narratives.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 646