Guest of a program of the Berber television channel, the genius of mathematics and French deputy, Cédric Villani, did not hesitate to let go of his four truths regarding the nuclear tests perpetrated by France, in Reganne, in the Sahara Algerian, dering the 1960s.
In his speech, Cédric Villani first wanted to explain that “Algeria is a country that is excessively dear to me, a country where my parents were born and a country where I have been regularly in recent years”. The genius of maths confided that he was “aware of everything that affects the Algerian cause and the Algerian people”.
“I was one of those who worked for the recognition by France of what happened with Maurice Audin”, indicates Cédric Villani who explains that it was, therefore “quite natural” that it was is also interested in the dossier of nuclear tests carried out by colonial France in Algerian.
Reganne’s trials, an injury in the middle of the desert
Cédric Villani confides, that before a few years, he “was not aware at all” of the seriousness of this file and that he had therefore become aware thanks to pure chance, he says. “it is while discussing with the author of a novel, Christophe Bataille, he sends me a manuscript asking me for advice on scientific questions related to nuclear energy, and in his book, which is called the experience, there are these stories of tests, carried out in Reganne, in the desert, the way in which soldiers are sent very close to the site of the explosion to test the effects of radioactivity on their bodies”.
“But I said to myself, it’s not possible! how is it possible that humans have been treated like this! » Exclaims Cédric Villani, mathematician and member of parliament for Essonne. “It just seemed incredible to me, so I deg, and one thing led to another I worked on this file which is for me one of the files which must be taken up within the framework of the franco-Algerian relationship”.
“I do not know what is in the minds of the Algerian government, but there is something a little embarrassing because these tests actually took place after independence”, ends up releasing cédric Villani who adds that “the simple fact that Algeria authorized France to carry out these tests while she was a sovereign state is something very significant”.
Villani, who assures us that this was probably part of the Evian agreements, compares the case of Algeria with that of Polynesia, which “is still part of France”, unlike Algeria, whose “political situation is much more complicated because that (the tests) took place in a sovereign Algerian state which allowed things to happen, ” concluded the mathematician and politician.
