- Pierre Lagaillarde
Pierre Lagaillarde (
Courbevoie ,15 May 1931 ) was French politician, and a founder of theOrganisation armée secrète (OAS).Lagaillarde was a lawyer at
Blida inAlgeria , a reserve officer of theparatrooper s, and an elected deputy ofAlger . He took the presidency of the "Association générale des étudiants d'Alger" (General Association of Alger's Students) in 1957, and also took part in theAlger insurrection of May 1958, which broughtCharles de Gaulle back to power. Lagaillarde was member of the "Comité de salut public" which opposed Algerian independence, and occupied the "Gouvernement général de l'Algérie" (local colonial administration). In November 1958, he was on the electoral list "Algérie française" (French Algeria), and then take the head of the insurrection during the week of the barricades in January 1960.Lagaillarde was then detained in
la Santé in Paris, and took advantage of his parole to escape to Spain (along withJean-Jacques Susini ,Jean-Maurice Demarquet ,Marcel Ronda andFernand Féral Lefevre ), where he joinedRaoul Salan and founded theOrganisation armée secrète on3 December 1960 . Deprived of his deputy status, he was sentenced "in absentia " to ten years of prison in March 1961.In October 1961 he was arrested in Madrid, along with the Italian neofascist
Guido Giannettini [ René Monzat, "Enquêtes sur la droite extrême",Le Monde -éditions, 1992, p.91. Monzat quotesFrançois Duprat , "L’Ascension du MSI",Edition les Sept Couleurs , Paris, 1972 ] . Franco then exiled him to theCanary Islands .Lagaillarde was pardonned through the 1968 amnesty law.
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* [http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/IMG/arton769.jpgA picture of Pierre Lagaillarde]
* [http://www.ecpad.fr/ecpa/include/DrawImage.asp?f=ALG%2058-226-R44.jpgAnother picture (on the monument first level left in battle dress)]
*fr icon [http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/decision/1961/612d.htm Decision of the national assembly]
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