Casbah of Algiers
Drif was twenty years old when, on 30 September 1956, she set a bomb in the Milk Bar café, which killed three French youths and injured dozens in one of the first actions of the Battle of Algiers. Algerian Communist Party-member Raymonde Peschard was initially accused of the bombing and was forced to flee from the colonial authorities. Drif was captured in early October 1957 along with Saadi Yacef, at No. 3 Rue Caton in the Casbah of Algiers by Lt. Colonel Jeanpierre and his 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment. [5]