After acknowledging the role of France in the assassination of Algerian freedom fighter, lawyer Ali Boumendjel, French President Emmanuel Macron made a new gesture to facilitate access to classified archives including the Algerian War.
The Objective is to break taboos, solidify relations between France and Algeria, but also to shed light on certain grey areas.
The national archives and the services of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Armed Forces will be able to declassify archives that are over 50 years old more quickly, which will reduce the waiting time for researchers who want to access them.
Euronews Guillaume Petit speaks to Céline Guyon, President of the Association of French Archivists. He asked her about how much faster will it be and what can be expected to access thousands of documents, thousands of boxes?