Pierre Lagaillarde
Pierre Lagaillarde (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ laɡajaʁd]; Courbevoie, 15 May 1931 – 17 August 2014) was a French politician, and a founder of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS).[1]
Lagaillarde was a lawyer at
Lagaillarde was then detained in la Santé in Paris, and took advantage of his parole to escape to Spain (along with Jean-Jacques Susini, Jean-Maurice Demarquet, Marcel Ronda and Fernand Féral Lefevre), where he joined Raoul Salan and founded the OAS on 3 December 1960. Deprived of his immunity as a deputy, 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.[2] The Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco, later exiled Lagaillarde to the Canary Islands.[1]
Lagaillarde was pardoned by France through the 1968 amnesty law.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "L'ancien chef de l'OAS Pierre Lagaillarde est mort" (in French). liberation.fr. 17 August 2014. Archived from the original on 25 August 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ^ René Monzat, Enquêtes sur la droite extrême, Le Monde-éditions, 1992, p.91. Monzat quotes François Duprat, L'Ascension du MSI, Edition les Sept Couleurs, Paris, 1972.
External links
- (in French) A picture of Pierre Lagaillarde
- (in French) Another picture (ref ALG-58-226-R44 on the monument first level left in battle dress) (ECPAD)
- (in French) Decision of the national assembly