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]