Macron meets Algerian-born French citizens with one eye on election

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French president seeks to address France’s colonial legacy in north Africa.

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Emmanuel Macron has told representatives of the Pieds Noirs – the Algerian-born French citizens who fled to France after Algerian independence – that a 1962 shooting by French troops against them was “unforgivable for the republic”, reports The Guardian.