![France admits toturing Algerians in 1954 war for independence](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2018/9/13/7d65dea077dd47d48a2f6950aaa329b7_18.jpg)
President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Maurice Audin, a communist pro-independence activist who disappeared in 1957, "died under torture stemming from the system instigated while Algeria was part of France."
Macron, who paid a visit to Audin's widow on Thursday, was also set to announce "the opening of archives on the subject of disappeared civilians and soldiers, both French and Algerian."