Joëlle Aubron

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Joëlle Aubron (born June 26, 1959 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , † March 1, 2006 ) was a French terrorist and co-founder of Action Directe (AD).

Life

Aubron was a leading member of the French radical left terrorist organization Action Directe. In 1984 she married Régis Schleicher , also a member of the 'Action Directe'; the marriage soon ended in divorce. Until she went underground in 1985, Aubron ran an anarchist bookstore.

After the assassinations of General René Audran on January 25, 1985 and the Renault boss Georges Besse on November 17, 1986, she was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 for murder along with the other AD members Nathalie Ménigon , Jean-Marc Rouillan and Georges Cipriani .

After surgery for a brain tumor in 2004, she was released early from prison in accordance with the Kouchner Act (loi Kouchner of March 4, 2002). The following year it was discovered that Aubron also suffered from lung cancer . She died on March 1, 2006 of complications from this disease.

literature

  • Michael Y. Dartnell: "Action Directe: Ultra Left Terrorism in France 1979-1987" , Frank Cass Publishers 1995, ISBN 0714642126

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel 6/1985
  2. ↑ text
personal data
SURNAME Aubron, Joëlle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuilly-sur-Seine
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 2006