 The revelation that hundreds of people had been killed by the Paris "Sûreté" was a great shock in France and led to uncomfortable questions being raised about what had happened during the Algerian War.The American historian William Cohen wrote that the Papon trial "sharpened the focus" on the Algerian War, it not provide "clarity" as Papon's role as a civil servant under Vichy led to misleading conclusions in France that it was former collaborators who were responsible for the terror in Algeria, when in fact most of the men responsible like Guy Mollet, General Marcel Bigeard, Robert Lacoste, General Jacques Massu and Jacques Soustelle had all been "résistants" in World War Two, which was a fact that many French historians found very unpalatable.On 15 June 2000, "Le Monde" published an interview with Louisette Ighilahriz, a former FLN member who described in graphic detail her torture at the hands of the French Army and made the sensational claim that the war heroes General Jacques Massu and General Marcel Bigeard had personally been present when she being tortured for information.