Ali Boumendjel

Ali Boumendjel (; 24 May 1919 – 23 March 1957) was an Algerian revolutionary and lawyer.

Biography Access Theater from Ali Boumendjel station of the Algiers metro. Ali Boumendjel was born in Relizane to an educated family from Beni Yenni. He was the younger brother of Ahmed Boumendjel, also a nationalist politician and lawyer who would participate in the negotiations leading up to the Évian Accords. The younger Boumendjel was educated at the Lycée Duveyrier in Blida, where he met with other future figures of the Algerian revolution, such as Abane Ramdane, Benyoucef Benkhedda and Saad Dahlab. He then oriented his career toward law, and became a journalist for the journal Egalité, controlled by the integrationists led by Ferhat Abbas. Forty-three years later, in 2000, Aussaresses admitted that Boumendjel had been murdered.

Following the recommendations of the report by historian Benjamin Stora on remembrance of French Algeria, on March 2, 2021, French President Emmanuel Macron recognized that Ali Boumendjel was "tortured and murdered" by the French army. The president received four of Ali Boumendjel's grandchildren to announce to them the recognition, on behalf of France, of his assassination. The press release evokes the confession of Paul Aussaresses to have ordered one of his subordinates to disguise the murder as suicide.

Tributes A street and a metro station bear his name in Algiers as well as a city in Relizane, his birthplace.