 After the funeral ended, members of the funeral party as they left the church lynched the first seven Muslims on the street that they encountered.The lynchings were the beginning of a pogrom where the "pied-noirs" went about revenging the massacre committed by the FLN by killing as many Muslims as possible while the French Army stood by and watched.The massacre of hundreds of Muslims by "pied-noir" vigilantes in Philippville's football stadium was the highlight of the killings with many "colons" coming out to watch the killings.