Améziane Aït Ahcène (1931 – 1959)[1] was an Algerian lawyer, FLN politician, and ambassador of the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale in West-Germany. He was shot out of a moving car on November 5, 1958, in Bonn and died months later in a Tunisian hospital.[2]
Améziane Aït Ahcène studied law and was a lawyer in Algeria. He came to Bonn, the capital of West-Germany, as head of the unofficial German Mission of the Algerian Freedom Movement (FLN).[3] On November 5, 1958, Améziane Aït Ahcène was shot down from a moving car outside the Tunisian embassy in Bonn. A burst from a heavy submachine gun, according to Der Spiegel, the weapon used was an 11.9 caliber machine pistol. [4] The attack is attributed to the French state-run terrorist organization of the French secret service SDECE, La Main Rouge.[5]
Améziane Aït Ahcène received medical treatment in Tunis and was subsequently appointed head of the FLN by exiled prime minister Ferhat Abbas.[6] He later died of pulmonary edema in Tunisia due to his injuries.[7]
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- ^ Thomas Scheffler: Die SPD und der Algerienkrieg (1965–1963). Verlag Das Arabische Buch, 1995, ISBN 3-86093-074-5, S. 120.
- ^ "Mord per Blasrohr: Die Blutspur der "Roten Hand"", #Terrorismus #Nachrichtendienste #Zeitgeschichte (in German), 2017-09-16, archived from the original on 2018-02-21, retrieved 2018-12-01
- ^ "ZEIT ONLINE | Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl".
- ^ "Mercier ging durch die Stadt". Der Spiegel. 18 November 1958.
- ^ Jean-Paul Cahn: Algeriens Guerillakrieg und die deutsch-französische Grenze (1954–1962) In: Andreas Fickers, Andreas Fickers, Rüdiger Haude, Werner Tschacher (Hrsg.): Jeux sans Frontières? - Grenzgänge der Geschichtswissenschaft. transcript Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-839-44105-3, S. 124,
- ^ "BERUFLICHES: AIT AHCENE - DER SPIEGEL 7/1959". www.spiegel.de. Archived from the original on 2017-03-17.
- ^ Matthias Ritzi, Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: Im Schatten des Dritten Reiches. Ch. Links Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-861-53643-7, S. 188,