A Historic Step Towards Justice On Christmas Eve, the Financial Times reported about Scrooge-like claimants who ruin their opponents' Christmas by serving them lawsuits on 24 December. However, this year, the Algerians went one better. This Christmas Eve, the Algerian Parliament unanimously passed legislation declaring France's brutal colonisation a crime. The law asserts that France has "legal responsibility for its colonial past in Algeria and the tragedies it caused." Whil