Sixty years after the massacre of Algerians who came to demonstrate peacefully in Paris, two historians, Emmanuel Blanchard and Naïma Huber Yahi, look back at the violent repression of 17 October 1961. "It is high time that a strong statement be made at the highest level of the State to acknowledge the responsibility of the French State in this massacre," says Naïma Huber Yahi. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES