 Hundreds of Muslims fled to the mountains to escape the massacre and many of the men joined the "Armée de Libération Nationale" (ALN), the armed wing of the FLN.The French Army made no attempt to stop the killings and afterwards, the French authorities made no effort to prosecute those "colons" who killed Muslims during the pogrom.The effect of the killings by both sides in Philippville, El-Halia and elsewhere was to destroy any hope of inter-communal reconciliation.