Ferme Gauthier

[5] The planting of vast orange groves to the north and east of the farm has made it possible to vary agricultural income while taking advantage of the abundance of water in Oued Isser.

This is how the villages of Souk El Had were supervised by the political commissar and moudjahid Yahia Boushaki (1935-1960), who managed to recruit dozens of activists committed to attack the colonial farms around Oued Isser.

[7] The sabotage of colonial equipment has bewildered, frustrated and frightened French farmers and townspeople, especially after the maquisarde cell leader Bouzid Boushaki (born 1935) planted a bomb in the post office in Thénia (old Ménerville).

[8] After the reconfiguration, the halls of forced detention, interrogation, torture and assassination inside this farm accommodated about 200 detainees in an area of not less than 5000 square meters of the original buildings of this facility.

[19] The relocation of the families of the Gautier torture center, infamous during the War of Liberation for having served as a concentration camp, will allow its recovery and its transformation into a museum or historical site in homage to the martyrs (Shuhada) who suffered the worst vicissitudes there.