Jean-Pierre Cherid

Jean-Pierre Cherid ( November 20, 1940 in Algiers - † March 19, 1984 in Biarritz ) was a French terrorist in the OAS . He was originally a paratrooper in the French army and joined the OAS in the Algerian War .

Life

After his time in the Algerian War (1954–1962), Cherid appeared in Spain in 1976. He was one of the right-wing mercenaries recruited by the Spanish secret service Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa to take part in the Montejurra massacre. This was the attack on the left Partido Carlista . Since then, Cherid has been part of the group that waged an illegal war against ETA in the French Basque Country. This part of the secret service operated under different names: Antiterrorismo ETA , Batallón Vasco Español or AAA death squad. In 1978 it participated in the assassination of Argala , a member of the ETA. Argala had participated in the 1973 assassination of Francisco Franco's Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco . No organization took responsibility for this attack. In 1979 he tried unsuccessfully to murder the ETA activist Txomin in Biarritz. A few months later his group murdered the ETA activist, Enrique Álvarez, "Korta", in Bayonne . On December 31, 1980, Cherid murdered ETA member José Martín Sagardía in Biarritz . The BVE took responsibility for this attack. The new government of Spain in 1982 did not influence the dirty war against the ETA. The Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación , was the new name of the death squads during the government of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español . Cherid died in an explosion while preparing an explosives attack against an ETA member. The Guardia Civil is said to have approved the assassination attempt, according to materials found on him. In 1996, while the Spanish Parliament was running a dirty war commission, Cherid's family applied for a pension. Álvaro Martínez Sevilla, from Izquierda Unida , accused Interior Minister José Barrionuevo of granting this pension, which he refused. In 2008, Cherid was charged with involvement in the 1976 disappearance of ETA activist Pertur. According to the testimony of an Italian neo-fascist, Cherid ran a house outside of Barcelona where death squads tortured kidnapped people on behalf of the Spanish secret services.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 36 etarras muertos por sus propias bombas El Mundo ( Spanish )
2. ↑ MONTEJURRA: LA OPERACIÓN RECONQUISTA Y EL ACTA FUNDACIONAL DE LAS TRAMAS ANTITERRORISTAS ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish)  
3. ^ Diego Carcedo : Sáenz de Santa María. El general que cambió de bando ( Spanish ). Temas de Hoy, Madrid 2004, ISBN 84-8460-309-1 , pp. 148-155.
4. ^ Diego Carcedo : Sáenz de Santa María. El general que cambió de bando ( Spanish ). Temas de Hoy, Madrid 2004, ISBN 84-8460-309-1 , p. 218.
5. ↑ Spain's Dirty War Against Basque Militants ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2002 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in Euskal Herria Journal  
6. ↑ "Yo maté al asesino de Carrero Blanco»
7. ↑ El Mundo , December 21, 2003 (Spanish) ( English account of El Mundo article )
8. ^ Diego Carcedo : Sáenz de Santa María. El general que cambió de bando ( Spanish ). Temas de Hoy, Madrid 2004, ISBN 84-8460-309-1 , p. 217.
9. ^ Diego Carcedo : Sáenz de Santa María. El general que cambió de bando ( Spanish ). Temas de Hoy, Madrid 2004, ISBN 84-8460-309-1 , p. 395.
10. ↑ 3,000 personas asistieron al entierro del “etarra” Sagardi , El País , January 2, 1981 (Spanish)
11. ↑ Un senador de IU dice que Barionuevo pagó la pensión a la viuda del gal Cherid , El País , January 27, 1996 (Spanish)
12. ↑ Diario Vasco : La masía del caso 'Pertur' ( Spanish ) Retrieved March 26, 2009.