The French followed the pattern of the British and Germans in Africa and put a couple of million people in concentration camps with the associated torture and repression. They took a nascent movement and empowered it, just like they did in Vietnam.

Empires are messy. Frankly, your argument sounds like the Americans complaining about Puerto Rican “immigrants”.

> Frankly, your argument sounds like the Americans complaining about Puerto Rican “immigrants”.

If Algeria was still part of France then perhaps. But the actual situation is completely different as previously explained.