The return of remains of Algerian resistance fighters “plus one Egyptian fighter” to home after 170 years : Good news of the day

Between sad news of having an alleged serial rapist in Egypt to the sad news of the bad economic conditions in Lebanon, I believe that this is the good news of the day.

Algeria restored back the remains of 24 resistance fighters who fought the French invasion from 170 years ago in an official majestic reception.

Algerian soldiers carrying the remains of the resistance figures
in caskets covered by Algerian flag "Reuters"

Algerian President Abdel Magid Tabboune led the official military reception the remains which were put in caskets with the Algerian flag.

Algerian President Abdel Magid Tabboune paying respect 
to the resistance icons "Algerian TV"

The scene gave me goosebumps. To see those resistance men returning back home after 170 years in this way was one of the best scenes this year.

Part of the official military reception "Algerian TV"

Now interestingly, it turned out the 24 remains including the remains of an Egyptian man who joined the resistance.

This man was called “Moussa Bin Hassan El-Shazli” who originally descended from Damietta who immigrated to Algeria in the 19th century. During the Algerian resistance against the French invasion, Sheikh Moussa Bin Hassan El-Shazly were among the leaders of the Zaatcha Resistance.

At the official reception of the remains of Algerian resistance fighters
"Reuters"

The resistance lost following a bloody siege, the leading figures were executed as the French invasion committed what we can call now war crimes against the people of the city.

The French invaders executed or rather beheaded the leaders of the resistance including our Egyptian sheikh and then took the heads or rather the skulls of those resistance icons to be exhibited for 170 years including decades at the infamous Musee de L’ Homme “Museum of human”.

It is sad that we have not been introduced to this man except only now.

The Algerian soldiers at the official reception of the resistance fights
"Reuters"

This is the first time I know about this 19th century Egyptian who resisted the French invasion in Algeria and I believe the Egyptian ambassador just surprised as me.

Thanks to late George Floyd and #BlackLivesMatter movement that led to a reexamination of history, it seems that Algeria got some of the remains of its resistance fighters from France according to French media after 170 years.

I hope that one day that Floyd’s daughter will know that her daddy’s death created a chain of reactions that reached far away on the other side of the ocean.