Massu was still sticking to his 'electric torture was not so bad' story when he was interviewed in the Spectator in 1994
'Anyway, I tried la gégène on myself; it was not so terrible.' 'To which part of the body did you attach the wires' he was asked by Simon Cortauld. 'I don't remember - it gives you a shock, but I didn't make a tragedy out of it. The gégène had been used in other parts of Algeria. I was surprised, but then I was told that it had been in general use since Indo-China. The Battle of Algiers was not something that we enjoyed; but we carried it through with a certain style [élègance].' quoted here: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/defeat-french-humanism.htm