Police killing of French-Algerian student Oussekine remembered on screen, at last

Flowers and letters lay in front of the entrance of 20 rue Monsieur le Prince in Paris where Malik Oussekine died, killed by the police on December 4, 1986, on the fringe of a demonstration against the reform of the higher education system. AFP - MICHEL GANGNE

Thirty five years after Malik Oussekine was beaten to death by police during a student demonstration, his story is finally being told in a four-part series beginning Wednesday on Disney+ and a feature film debuts at this month's Cannes Film Festival.

On the night of 6 December, 1986, two police officers beat 22-year-old Malik Oussekine to death on the sidelines of a student protest in Paris.