Marcel Dupret

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Marcel Dupret (* 1910 in Brussels ; † June 10, 1971 in Skhirat ) was an ambassador for Baudouin I.

Life

Marcel Dupret was born as the son of the printing company owner Georges Dupret. In 1930 he took over the management of the Biermans printing works and expanded the range to include paper bags and playing cards .

After the Belgian colonial power withdrew from the Belgian Congo on June 30, 1960 , Dupret was consul general of the King of Belgium in Brazzaville and was instrumental in the murder of Patrice É. Lumumba involved. Marcel Dupret was Ambassador of Belgium in Baghdad on Abu Nawas Street, Kard el Pasha. On the occasion of the Six-Day War , the appointed government of the United States its charge d'affaires to the government of Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr in Baghdad Enoch S. Duncan 1967, from.

Marcel Dupret was based in the building of the US embassy in Baghdad, where an opponent of the regime had fled, and he was the consular representative of US citizens in detention matters.

When Skhirat attempted a coup , Marcel Dupret tried to jump over a wall onto the beach and was shot.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludo de Witte, The assassination of Lumumba 226 SS 23
  2. ↑ Ludo de Witte, L'assassinat de Lumumba , p. 67
  3. ↑ David Ryan, Patrick Kiely, America and Iraq: policy-making, intervention and regional politics 2009, 268 pp. 41
  4. ↑ The Belgian ambassador, Marcel Dupret, tried to jump over the wall on to the beach but was shot dead as he did so. Majallat al-Maghrib, volume 25
  5. ↑ ABC , July 13, 1971, Marcel Dupret, que aparece en la fotografía de la izquierda.
personal data
SURNAME Dupret, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1971
Place of death Skhirat