France to acknowledge its abuses in former colony Algeria, but won’t apologize

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said France wants to acknowledge its colonial-era abuses in Algeria. However, Paris is not going to issue a formal apology for those wrongdoings. Algeria was a French colony for 132 years until 1962. Macron’s office said the president instead intends to make ’symbolic acts’ to recognize the harsh colonial realities and help the two countries reconcile.