She participates, theJanuary 26, 1957, to the bomb attack at the Coq Hardi bar, during the Battle of Algiers . Accused by the Permanent Tribunal of the French Armed Forces , she was then the first sentenced to death, with her fellow fighter Djamila Bouhired , by the French military tribunal. His sentence was commuted to forced labor for life before regaining his freedom with the general amnesty provided for by the Evian Accords of19 mars 1962.