TECHNICIANS ARRESTED IN ALGERIA
Paris
SEPT. 16 -- Agence France-Presse reported yesterday in a dispatch from Algiers that seven French nationals have been arrested in Algeria under accusation of "collusion".with the underground Organisation de la Résistance Populaire [see World Outlook August 6] which is struggling against Colonel Boumedienne's arbitrary regime.
The name of only one of the victims has been revealed: Albert Roux, a technician working with the Office des Céréales.
Le Monde, which reported the arrest of Albert Roux in its September 14 Tssue, describes him as a member of the left socialist Parti Socialiste Unifié (one of the more radical groupings in France), a collaborator of Tribune Socialiste, and the main figure in the Committee to Aid the Victims of the Repression, which was formed in France at the end of the war with Algeria.
The other six included a technician of Algier's radio-television, a youth called up for military service in France who opted to serve his time helping Algeria (a choice open to French draftees), and a woman who formerly worked with the Algérie Presse Service.
Boumedienne's police claimed that they found "incriminating documents" in the homes of the victims,
Official French circles gave anonymous backing to the charges of the Boumedienne regime, stating that there did not "seem to be any doubt about the reality of the facts charged against those arrested."
The Boumedienne regime. notified the French embassy of the arrests and, in accordance with the terms of the "cooperation" granted by the de Gaulle government, turned the youth serving military time in Algeria, over to the embassy. What fate awaits the others was not reported.