Nothing has really been done to prevent torture. Everything, on the contrary, has facilitated it: the attitude of the opponent, the helplessness of authority, the indifference of public opinion, and the laws themselves.
Le Monde
Once again torturethe Algerian war's most harmful blemish on France's good namemade news. A year ago La Question, an account of French army torture in Algeria, sold 65,000 copies, stirred up a storm of public indignation before the government banned it. Last week Paris police seized another shocker. La Gangrène, 24 hours after it rolled off the presses....