Emmanuel Macron is set to become the first French President ever to commemorate the murders of scores of Algerians by Paris police – while refusing to apologise for such atrocities or investigate them properly.
The contradiction is raised in a new official report into France’s 132-year colonial rule of Algeria and the savage war of independence that ended it.
It has led to accusations that Mr Macron wants to win over French voters from Algerian backgrounds, while also courting French nationalists who glorify their old Empire.
