Ben Barka
Mehdi Ben Barka (* 1920 [?] In Rabat ; † October 29 or 30, 1965 in Fontenay-le-Vicomte , Essonne department , France ; Arabic المهدي بن بركة, DMG al-Mahdī b. Baraka ) was a Moroccan opposition politician.
Life
Ben Barka was the son of a Moroccan bailiff. He became a grammar school teacher for mathematics and a private teacher at the court of Mohammed V. There he taught his son and heir to the throne Hassan II in mathematics.
A member of the Istiqlal party since 1944 , Ben Barka organized the armed resistance after Mohammed V was exiled by the French protectorate power (1953–1955). After Morocco gained independence , he was President of the Parliamentary Consultative Assembly until 1958 and in 1959 founded the left-wing party “National Union of People's Forces / United National People's Front” ( UNFP ).
Because of his criticism of the dismissal of Prime Minister Abdallah Ibrahim by Mohammed V, he had to flee abroad before a high treason trial in 1960 (Switzerland, Egypt, most recently France). He was then sentenced to death in Morocco . During the Moroccan- Algerian conflict, he sided with Algeria. On October 29, 1965, he was kidnapped and murdered by two SDECE agents , Souchon and Voitot, in front of the Lipp Brasserie on Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris . The crime was never fully resolved. The Moroccan interior minister, General Oufkir, and the chief of the Moroccan security police , Colonel Ahmed Dlimi , were charged in France with the masterminds behind the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Ben Barka. Dlimi, who surrendered to French justice, was acquitted in June 1967. General Oufkir was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for this act .
According to other sources, Mossad agents lured him from Geneva to Paris (pretending to be meeting a film producer), where French security forces arrested him and handed him over to Morocco. Ben-Barka was then shot dead on October 30 by Muhammad Oufkir, head of the Moroccan security service, or one of his agents. The Israelis had already met with Oufkir in the autumn to negotiate the search for Ben Barka and the kidnapping. The reason for the cooperation was securities for Moroccan Jews.
Processing in film and literature
Jean-Luc Godard's 1966 film Made in USA loosely deals with the events of Ben Barka's death.
The film Das Assentat (1972) by director Yves Boisset based on the script by Ben Barzman , Basilio Franchina and Jorge Semprún is based on this political scandal in recent French history, which has not yet been fully clarified. The character of Sadiel, played by Gian Maria Volonté , is based on Ben Barka. In 2005 the film I saw the murder of Ben Barka was released. Barka is portrayed here by Simon Abkarian .
In the novel, a code name of Otto of Lisa St Aubin de Terán the figure Mehdi Ben Barka and his unexplained death are presented.
The French crime writer Jean-Patrick Manchette uses the authentic case as the basis of his Série noire novel The Affair N'Gustro .
In the novel Grasses of the Night by the French Nobel Prize winner for literature Patrick Modiano , the kidnapping of Ben Barka forms a background for the plot.
The novel 1965 - Rue de Grenelle by JR Bechtle tells the fictional story of a Munich student who is unintentionally involved in the kidnapping of Ben Barka.
Fonts
- Revolutionary alternative . Edited and introduced by Bassam Tibi. Trikont-Verlag , Munich 1969, DNB 730352617 .
literature
- Zakya Daoud; Maâti Monjib: Ben Barka. Ed. Michalon, Paris 1996. ISBN 2-84186-020-5 .
- Wolfgang Kraushaar : From the protest chronicle. In: Mittelweg 36 . 18th year, 2009, no. 1, pp. 104-108.
Web links
- Le Monde Diplomatique: "Mehdi Ben Barka et la Tricontinentale", October 2005 (French)
- "New edition of the Ben Barka affair" Report on new investigations (2007) on Qantara.de, November 9, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ephraim Kahana, Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence, Scarecrow Press 2006, pp. XXVII
- ↑ The attack in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Lisa Saint Aubin de Terán: Code name Otto . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-458-17340-3 , pp. 335–343.
- ↑ Jean-Patrick Manchette: The N'Gustro Affair . Distel, Heilbronn 2002, ISBN 3-923208-64-2 .
- ↑ Patrick Modiano: Grasses of the Night . Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24721-5 .
- ↑ JR Bechtle: 1965 - Rue de Grenelle . Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-627-00217-6
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ben Barka |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ben Barka, Mehdi (full name); المهدي بن بركة (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moroccan opposition politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rabat |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1965 or October 30, 1965 |
| Place of death | Fontenay-le-Viscount |