André Gazut, the insubordinate
André Gazut, the insubordinate
André Gazut, once coproducer of the RTS news program "Temps Présent", talks to me about his experience as an indirect witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war. The man refused to serve in the French army after learning that Algerian prisoners were tortured between 1954 and 1962. This is also the reason why André Gazut left France to settle in Switzerland.
Here is the story of how he discovered the photos of his colleague at the parisian monthly magazine "Réalités" Jean-Philippe Charbonnier. How his photos changed his life.
Photo André Gazut (right) and Nils Andersson, a French photographer who left France for Switzerland in 1960 and Nils Andersson who published "La Question" by Henri Alleg in Switzerland, reissuing it fourteen days after it was banned in France. Despite this censorship by the French government, 150,000 copies of this book were distributed clandestinely and contributed considerably to revealing the phenomenon of torture in Algeria by reinforcing the testimonies that had been published in the press during the year 1957.
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