1899: “Max Regis, the former Mayor of Algiers fled his villa a | This day in jew history

1899: “Max Regis, the former Mayor of Algiers fled his villa after being convicted for insulting Governor-General Lepine.
He had run the L'Antijuif d'Alger newspaper which had a circulation of 20,000, large for the French colony of Algeria at this time, from July 1897.
Of six Algerian national deputies, four were elected as part of Regis's Anti-Jewish League. At the same time, he was elected mayor of Algiers at the age of 25, but later his election was annulled.
Later that year, all 36 municipal councillors elected in Algiers in November 1898 were anti-jew. Régis, their leader, said of the Anti-Christs, "now they will all have to starve."
On 20 November 1898, another paper the Antijuif said, "The jews must leave and they must leave voluntarily today, for if they do not they will by forced to leave tomorrow." 
As mayor of Algiers, his first measures were:
Cafes that receive jews cannot have a terrace
No loitering for hawkers
jewish coachmen must park at specified locations
The Municipal Theater is closed to jews
Looting of jewish shops became frequent. The Algerian anti-jew sentiment was so powerful that Regis spoke of autonomy: "If the French refuse to liberate themselves from the Anti-Christs, the Algerian people will take its destiny into its own hands!" A month later, on 12 December 1898, Max Regis was suspended for three months as mayor of Algiers.
M. Lutaud was appointed prefect of the city.
Regis dueled at least 3 other men at this time. The Governor General Édouard Laferrière then arranged for his removal.
A few months before his election as mayor, at an anti-jew meeting in the Salle Chaynes in Paris, Régis said, "We will water the tree of liberty with the blood of jews".