US EditionCase of the Missing of Rivesaltes: the Analyses Confirm the Hypothesis of the Bodies of Harkis
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Scientific analyses of bones found last year in the communal cemetery of Rivesaltes, near Perpignan (south of France) indicate a high probability that they were the bodies of harkis who had been missing for a year. The families had not been informed of the displacement of the remains.
The number of bones, as well as the age at the time of death, are "coherent" with those whose bodies had disappeared, according to the researcher responsible for analysing them.
After the discovery at the beginning of April of four crates filled with bones in the cemetery Saint-Saturnin of Rivesaltes, a meeting was organized this Monday 27 October 2025 in the prefecture of Perpignan in order to deliver...
According to the prefecture, the researcher responsible for analysis informed on Monday, 27 October, that the bones discovered in the cemetery of Rivesaltes would most likely belong to Harki refugees who died in a camp in this commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales in the 1960s, whose bodies had never been found.
The bones discovered at the Rivesaltes cemetery are believed to belong to 49 very young children and three harki adults who died in the 1960s at Camp Joffre, according to the analyses presented Monday to their families by...
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