La mort mystérieuse du colonel Halpert le 15 février 1946 à Constantine. Enquête historique

On February 15, 1946, Colonel Émile Halpert, government commissioner at the Military Tribunal of Constantine in charge of judging the insurgents of the May 8, 1945 uprising in North Constantine, had a stormy interview with André Le Troquer, Minister of the Interior.

In the evening, Émile Halpert was found lifeless in his hotel room: he reportedly committed suicide. At the time, his death was more or less obscured and did not lead to long journalistic developments or subsequent historical studies: was it an assassination or a suicide?

The author, who discovered these facts during his research on the events of 1945 in Algeria, has taken up in detail the life and career of the magistrate, analyzed the family, historical, legal, political, and psychological context, to deliver his conclusions to us. During this true police investigation, numerous questions are raised, certainties appear, and questions remain.