Hamida Djandoubi

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Hamida Djandoubi or Hamida al-Dschandubi ( Arabic حميدة الجندوبي, DMG Ḥamīda al-Ǧandūbī ; * September 22, 1949 in Tunisia ; † September 10, 1977 in Marseille ) was a Tunisian pimp and murderer and the last person to be executed in Western Europe . He was the last convict in the world to be beheaded by a guillotine .

Life

The Tunisian national, who lost his right leg in an accident, was a pimp in Marseille . After he tried to force his lover Elisabeth Bousquet into prostitution and she reported him, he spent several months in prison in 1973. In revenge, he kidnapped the then 21-year-old Bousquet on July 5, 1974, tortured her for several hours and strangled her. The responsible jury in Aix-en-Provence , the same court that had pronounced the death sentence against Christian Ranucci almost a year earlier , sentenced him to death on February 25, 1977 and also sentenced him to the rape of a 15-year-old girl, that he had forced into prostitution, guilty.

After the rejection of a petition for an appeal by the Court of Cassation in Paris on June 9, the then President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing refused to convert the judgment into life imprisonment on September 9, 1977 . The very next day Djandoubi was at 4:40 pm in the Marseilles prison Les Baumettes of executioner Marcel Chevalier on the guillotine beheaded . According to the prison doctor who was present, Djandoubi's head reacted to calls for about 30 seconds, which is, however, controversial according to today's medical opinion (see death after severing the head ).

literature

  • Jeremy Mercer : When the guillotine fell: the bloody beginning and horrifying end to France's river of blood, 1791-1977 . St. Martin's Press, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-312-35791-7 . (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benoît Garnot: La peine de mort. Du Moyen Âge à 1981. Humensis, ISBN 978-2-410-01270-5 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Djandoubi, Hamida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian murderer and last person to be executed in France
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunisia
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1977
Place of death Marseille