CBC prepares documentary about French nuclear tests in Algeria

The CBC TV channel has prepared a documentary film about the French crimes committed in the Algerian city of Reggane, Report informs.

Ballali Abdelkerim Benali is one of the residents of Reggane, whose father, while working in a French military base, stole secret documents. The papers, among other things, contained the facts of the French military conducting nuclear tests on humans and animals.

“Father told us how the French tortured the Algerian resistance fighters and experimented on them like on rats. My father even had photos of some French soldiers, but they were subsequently destroyed,” he said.

In 1960-1966, France conducted at least 17 nuclear tests in the city of Reggane. As a result, the health of the local population was seriously harmed, and the number of oncological diseases has sharply increased there.

The documentary contains interviews with residents of the city who are still suffering from the consequences of these nuclear tests and are demanding compensation from Paris.