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Paris Olympics in the Seine: ignoring the 1961 massacre?
French President Emmanuel Macron has finally ticked off one of his promises: making the Seine River clean for the Summer Olympics. Yet, sprucing up the Seine might not be enough to gain everyone's approval considering the river's murky past of state violence and colonisation, notably the 1961 massacre in which hundreds of Algerians were killed by the Parisian police.  Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Macron have put their long-standing squabbles aside to devise a plan to 'cleanse' the polluted Seine, where swimming has been banned for over a century. After investing US$1.4 billion to ready the Seine for the Olympics—mostly to prevent sewage leaks into the river—the Seine h

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