On Saturday, April 22, 1961, a coup de force took place in Algiers. Generals Challe, Salan, Zeller and Jouhaud established themselves in "high command". With the support of the first regiment of paratroopers, they wanted to try to put an end to Algeria’s policy of self-determination approved by referendum on January 8, 1961. On 23 April, President Charles de GAULLE addressed the nation to condemn this act.
Sujet muet. Pierre LAGAILLARDE, one of the leaders of French Algeria who led the Algiers insurrection during the Barricade Week, took refuge in Madrid. He will be co-founder of the OAS with Jean-Pierre Susini.
Sujet muet. Report in Algiers showing deserted streets, buses blocking a street and inscriptions on the walls: "OAS Salan", "OAS vaincra", "Down with the Gaullist occupant"...
Sujet muet. Alain de SERIGNY is the owner of one of the most influential Algerian daily newspapers, the "Echo d'Alger" and one of the most extremist representatives of the French Algerian movement. He will be with Pierre Lagaillarde the co-founder of the OAS.
Report in Algiers where the funeral of six leaders of social centres took place, among them the writer and school principal Mouloud FERAOUN, victims of the Ben Akhnoun shooting perpetrated by the OAS. In the centre of the city, Europeans observed the slogan of a dead city, while the army continued its patrols.
Testimony (hidden face) of a repatriated in difficulty of integration since his arrival in Marseille. He thinks that all the French are for the OAS in Algeria and that if he goes back to Algiers he will join this organization.
Sujet muet. On the walls of Oran, an opinion of the commander-in-chief of the OAS, Raoul SALAN, proclaims that he mobilizes the population to keep Algeria French. Views of the streets of Oran, military patrols, of the inscription on walls "Free the patriots - OAS alone vaincra - Salan", of the notice of mobilization.
Resumption of the attacks of the OAS in Algiers, in response to the letter of Edmond JOUHAUD stating: "Our feelings have not varied, but events have taken the course of the irreversible in Algeria. Independence is a fact that is practically a given and it is the death knell of our hopes but one that must be considered with realism. It is important that the action of the OAS stops as soon as possible". Views of Algiers and firefighters installing pipes to extinguish a fire, benches titles of Edmond Jouhaud’s letter.
Rushes of an interview with Raoul SALAN, then underground, by American journalists in French for the RTF New York. The general spoke on the OAS after the putsch of the generals in Algiers and explained that he wished to maintain a French Algeria.
The Algerian writer Rachid MIMOUNI talks about the responsibility of the OAS (Secret Armed Organization) in the departure of the Blackfoot from Algeria. "Beyond war and conflict, it was the OAS that fundamentally caused the breakup and mass exile of the Blackfoot," he said.
Sujet muet. Images of the Barricade Week between January 24 and 31, 1960, during which the insurgent insurgents of French Algeria heard protest against the eviction of General MASSU from his post as commander general of Algiers.
Silent report on the protest of 8 February 1962 against the OAS, banned by the Ministry of Interior, during which eight people died, killed by law enforcement at the Charonne metro station.
Sujet muet. In the aftermath of De GAULLE’s speech on self-determination, the Algerians of Bab El Oued switch to the Front for French Algeria. Images of Algerians signing their membership in this new party.
Demonstration in Lyon to protest against the attacks of the OAS which have multiplied in Algeria and in metropolitan France since the opening of the Evian negotiations with the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic.
General De GAULLE’s speech on the OAS activists, on the eve of the big left-wing demonstration against the metropolitan OAS attacks that made a symbol victim, little Delphine RENARD, disfigured by a bomb.
Sujet muet. Report on the banned protest, which took place on 19 December in Paris at the appeal of the CGT, the CFTC and the UNEF, against the OAS and for the opening of negotiations on peace in Algeria. Pictures of the demonstrators, of a sign "OAS assassins", of the police forces that hit participants and wounded.
Strengthening security in metropolitan and Algeria after the rattled coup of the generals and the activism of the ultras of the OAS in Algiers and Paris.
The INA Galaxy 
