Video: 'Algerian War of independence: Looking back at the Évian Accords, 60 years on • FRANCE 24 English'

(Monday, March 19, 1962, noon Central European Time; during the Algerian War) — After more than seven years of fighting between the French Army and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), a ceasefire was declared in the Algerian War today at noon local time pursuant to Article 1 of the Évian Accords.

Sporadic fighting continued in Saint-Denis-du-Sig (now Sig), where 52 people were killed in fighting between Muslim crowds and a Muslim unit of the French Army.

Video: 'The Algerian War, 1954-1962' (5 episodes)

Representatives of France and FLN leading the independence movement in Algeria signed the Évian Accords yesterday in Évian-les-Bains ending the war. Krim Belkacem and Saad Dahlab negotiated for the FLN, while the Minister for Algerian Affairs, Louis Joxe, appeared for France.

Krim successfully resisted a threatened partition of Algeria into European and Arab sections, as well as a plan to give dual citizenship to European Algerians, while Joxe was able to secure French military bases in the former overseas department.

The agreement would be approved by 91% of French voters and nearly 100% of Algerian voters in separate referenda, and Algeria would become independent on July 3, 1962.