Crimea Belkassem
Crimea Belkassem ( Arabic كريم بلقاسم), also written Belkassem Krim (* 1922 in Kabylia , Eastern Algeria; † October 18, 1970 in Frankfurt am Main ), was an Algerian officer and politician who played an important role in the Algerian War, the struggle for Algeria's independence from France . He was later murdered by political competitors in German exile.
Berbischer Ethnicity, went Belkassem as a young man against his father's will to Algiers , supported himself as a worker, became familiar with the French language and way of life and felt the French culture more closely linked than the Islamic. Joined the French army in 1942, he fought in an infantry regiment until the end of the war - most recently as a sergeant. In these three years he changed from a friend to a bitter opponent of the French.
The Muslim Algerians were discriminated against Jewish and Christian French by the Code de l'indigénat and Belkassem gained the knowledge that he belonged to the second class in France. After the end of the war, he initially worked as a jeweler, but Belkassem soon joined the nationalist “Algerian People's Party”. Instead of participating in the disputes between messalists and centralists, he and comrades founded the secret task force OS ( Organization spéciale ) in 1946/47 , which will prove to be the nucleus of the future "National Liberation Army" (ALN). In the Algerian government in exile, he was Deputy Prime Minister from 1958 to 1962, as well as Minister of Defense (until 1960) and Foreign Minister (until 1962). In the intra-party power struggles of the Front de Liberation Nationale (National Liberation Front FLN) after the independence of Algeria (1962) defeated by the faction around Ben Bella , he went into exile in 1963 (Italy, Switzerland). In 1967 he founded an opposition group in Paris against the government of Houari Boumediennes , the Algerian head of state from 1965 to 1978. In April 1969, a “revolutionary court” in Oran sentenced him to death in absentia for conspiracy against the Algerian government. A year and a half later he was found strangled in the "Intercontinental" hotel in Frankfurt . The perpetrators - presumably three Moroccans - managed to escape. He was later rehabilitated by the Algerian state. His body was buried on Martyrs' Square in 1984. The airport in the Algerian city of Hassi Messaoud is named after him.
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- ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia , 19th edition, Volume 3, 1987
- ↑ Website chroniknet , accessed 23 January 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Belkassem, Crimea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | كريم بلقاسم (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Algerian officer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kabylia , Eastern Algeria |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1970 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |