Améziane Aït Ahcène

Améziane Aït Ahcène (1931 - April 24, 1959 in Tunis[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, 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, calibre 11.9 mm hit Ahencene.[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 exile prime minister Ferhat Abbas.[6] He later died of pulmonary edema in Tunisia due to his injuries.[7]

Notes
  1. Thomas Scheffler: Die SPD und der Algerienkrieg (1965–1963). Verlag Das Arabische Buch, 1995, ISBN 3-86093-074-5, S. 120
  2. "Mord per Blasrohr: Die Blutspur der "Roten Hand"", #Terrorismus #Nachrichtendienste #Zeitgeschichte (in German), 2017-09-16, retrieved 2018-12-01
  3. https://www.zeit.de/1958/37/unnoetige-graeben
  4. https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-41759681.html
  5. 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
  6. https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-42624140.html
  7. Matthias Ritzi, Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: Im Schatten des Dritten Reiches. Ch. Links Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-861-53643-7, S. 188
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