André Serot

André Pierre Serot (born July 24, 1896 in Xertigny , † September 17, 1948 in Jerusalem ) was a Colonel in the French Air Force .

He took part in the First World War as a volunteer and was awarded the Croix de guerre in 1916 . A year later he was admitted to officer training at the Military School of Saint-Cyr and was reconnaissance pilot . During the Second World War , after the occupation of his home country, he worked for an undercover French counterintelligence service.

After the end of the war in 1947 he became a military observer for the United Nations (UN) and commander of the French contingent of the UN peacekeeping mission to monitor the ceasefire in the Middle East . In this role he accompanied the Swedish officer Folke Bernadotte , who was active as a UN mediator in the Palestine War . On September 17, 1948, both were shot by members of the Jewish terrorist group Lechi .

The Lechi group was crushed a few days after the attack by a prohibition law by the new Israeli government and the arrest of their leaders. Nathan Yellin-Mor , who allegedly participated in the murder of Bernadotte and Serot, was convicted of membership in a terrorist organization in 1949, but was released a short time later.

literature

• Serot, André. In: Edmund Jan Osmańczyk , Anthony Mango: Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements. Third edition. Routledge, New York 2003, ISBN 0-41-593924-0 , Volume 4, p. 1747
• Serot, André-Pierre. In: Reeva S. Simon, Philip Mattar, Richard W. Bulliet : Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. Macmillan Reference USA, New York 1996, ISBN 0-02-897064-0 , Volume 4, p. 367