Commando Delta

The Commando Delta were terrorist units that belonged to the OAS in Algeria . They were active in the early 1960s. For example, the units killed Muslim Algerians who lived in neighborhoods of white Christian Algerian-French people in order to ethnically cleanse these neighborhoods. The Commando Delta units were set up and commanded by Roger Degueldre in 1961. Degueldre deserted from the Foreign Legion in 1961 .

The Commandos Delta were also actively involved in the murder of French who opposed the "French Algeria Cause" and were viewed by the OAS as traitors. The French police officer Roger Gavoury, for example, was a victim of such attacks. However, it is suspected that the French secret service Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) or the Service d'Action Civique also committed murders in order to blame the OAS.

organization

• BAO - Bureau d'Action Opérationnelle, (Lieutenant Roger Degueldre , Adjutant Lieutenant Pierre Delhomme), in charge of operations.
  • Commandos Delta (Lieutenant Roger Degueldre)
    • Delta 1 ( Albert Dovecar )
    • Delta 2 ( Wilfried Schliederman )
    • Delta 3 ( Jean-Pierre Ramos )
    • Delta 4 (Lieutenant Jean-Loup Blanchy )
    • Delta 5 ( Josué Giner , alias "Jésus de Bab-el-Oued")
    • Delta 6 ( Gabriel Anglade )
    • Delta 7 ( Jacques Sintes )
    • Delta 9 ( Jo Rizza )
    • Delta 10 ( Joseph-Edouard Slama )
    • Delta 11 ( Paul Mancilla )
    • Delta 24 ( Marcel Ligier )
    • Delta 33 ( Jacques Bixio )

The Algerian War

The Commandos Delta were demonstrably responsible for the following actions:

• Assassination attempt at Château-Royal: murder of six people who worked on social services
• Operation “Rock and Roll”: Caused 120 explosions within two hours on the night of March 5th to 6th, 1962
• the March 22, 1962 murders that led to the isolation of the Bab El Oued neighborhood
• Operation Charlotte-Corday: The attempt to kidnap or murder Charles de Gaulle in 1962

The OAS was charged with the murder of several thousand Algerians.

Later use of the name Commando Delta

The name Commando Delta was later used in connection with right-wing extremist attacks in France:

• November 1977: Attack on a communist bookshop in Toulon .
• December 2, 1977: Laïd Sebaï , member of the Amicale des Algériens en Europe (“Friends of the Algerians in Europe”) murdered in Paris.
• 4th December 1977: Bomb attack on Algerian workers in Marange-Silvange
• December 11, 1977: Molotov cocktails were thrown into the entrance area of ​​a so-called Sonacotra house in Strasbourg-Meinau . Sonacotra (today Adoma) are residential buildings from social housing with a high proportion of foreigners.
• December 27, 1977: Attack on a union hall in Cambrai , with minor damage.
• December 31, 1977: Bomb attack on the town hall of Marcoing .
• March 14, 1978: Attack on the Amicale des Algériens office in Toulon.
• March 24, 1978: Attack on an office of the French Communist Party in Toulon.
• May 4, 1978: Henri Curiel is assassinated in Paris
• April 7, 1980: Arson attack on the door of a militant communist in Aubervilliers.
• June 7, 1980: Arson attack on the house of a member of the French Communist Party in Aubervilliers.
• March 3, 1981: Attempted parcel bomb attack against a director of Le Monde newspaper .
• September 30, 1983: Commandos Delta accused themselves of an attack on the International Forum at the Palais des Congrès in Marseille , 1 dead, 26 injured.

literature

• Yves Courrière: La guerre d'Algérie. Part 4: Les feux du désespoir. Fayard , 1969.
• Arnaud Déroulède: OAS: étude d'une organization clandestine. Curutchet, 1997.
• Vincent Guibert: Les commandos Delta. Curutchet, 2000.
• Georges Fleury: Histoire secrète de l'OAS Grasset & Fasquelle, 2002.
• Rémi Kauffer: OAS: histoire d'une guerre franco-française. Seuil, 2002.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alistair Horne: A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 . New York Review of Books, 1977-2006, ISBN 978-1-59017-218-6 , p. 483.
2. ^ Yves Courrière : La guerre d'Algérie. Part 4: Les feux du désespoir. Fayard, 1969.
3. ↑ GTD ID 197712020001 . In: Global Terrorism Database . University of Maryland. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
4. ↑ GTD ID 197712040001 . In: Global Terrorism Database . University of Maryland. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
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