October 1961: A massacre in Paris

Fayard, Paris, October 2001, 384 pages (+ 8 p. of plates) - ISBN 978-2213610191

Revised, expanded, and definitive edition of Einaudi's work on the massacre of October 17, 1961, published for the 40th anniversary of the events.

This new investigation clarifies and consolidates knowledge of the events through evidence, thanks to the opening of official archives in which Einaudi played a large part.

The author consulted the archives of the Ministry of Justice, the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office, the Paris Hospitals, the Gendarmerie and the Police Prefecture, and collected new testimonies.

Einaudi irrefutably demonstrates that the police repression caused around two hundred deaths and that in the heart of Paris, the police massacred people based on their appearance in full view of the highest government authorities.

In a long introduction and an unpublished afterword, the author returns to the debates and controversies sparked by his book, notably his victorious trial against Maurice Papon who had sued him for defamation.

Einaudi responds point by point to his opponents, notably the historian Jean-Paul Brunet, and confirms his conclusions with damning documentation.

This landmark work definitively establishes the historical truth about one of the largest massacres of civilians in Western Europe since 1945.