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.[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, 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. [4] The attack is attributed to the
Frenchstate-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 by exiled prime minister
Ferhat Abbas.[6] He later died of
pulmonary edema in Tunisia due to his injuries.[7]
^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,
ISBN978-3-839-44105-3, S. 124,