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Verges got his start defending Djamila Bouhired, an Algerian nationalist accused and convicted of planting bombs in cafes in 1957. (In a nice touch, Schroeder inserts footage from the classic “Battle of Algiers” to illustrate her story.) Verges used her case to confront France with its long history of atrocities in that country.
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