Améziane Aït Ahcène Explained

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.

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).[2] 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. [3] The attack is attributed to the French state-run terrorist organization of the French secret service SDECE, La Main Rouge.[4]

Améziane Aït Ahcène received medical treatment in Tunis and was subsequently appointed head of the FLN by exiled prime minister Ferhat Abbas.[5] He later died of pulmonary edema in Tunisia due to his injuries.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Thomas Scheffler: Die SPD und der Algerienkrieg (1965–1963). Verlag Das Arabische Buch, 1995,, S. 120.
  2. Web site: ZEIT ONLINE | Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl.
  3. News: Mercier ging durch die Stadt. Der Spiegel. 18 November 1958.
  4. 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,, S. 124,
  5. Web site: BERUFLICHES: AIT AHCENE - DER SPIEGEL 7/1959 . www.spiegel.de . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170317183417/http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-42624140.html . 2017-03-17.
  6. Matthias Ritzi, Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: Im Schatten des Dritten Reiches. Ch. Links Verlag, 2011,, S. 188,