Mariotti monument
The Mariotti memorial is located at the intersection of Brandbergweg and Nordstraße in Halle (Saale) and commemorates the death of the French sergeant major Phillipe Mariotti (* 1939) on March 22, 1984.
occasion
On March 22, 1984, the French member of the Military Liaison Mission Philippe Mariotti was killed as a driver during a blockade by members of the Ministry of State Security and the 11th Motorized Rifle Division .
The aim of the reconnaissance trip was to observe the 11th motorized rifle division of the NVA stationed in the Otto Brosowski barracks , which was to hold an exercise with Polish and Soviet armed forces in March 1984. The mission vehicle was rammed according to a plan that had been worked out in advance. In order to avoid an impending blockage, Mariotti tried to avoid the NVA truck approaching in the middle of the street. The emergency stop used at the last second came too late, the French car slipped under the bumper of the NVA blocking vehicle and Mariotti died immediately. Tour officer Jean-Paul Staub was seriously injured, NCO Blancheton was slightly injured, and some of the tour equipment was stolen.
monument
The memorial consists of a memorial stone and a metal plaque with inscription attached to it. The text in German reads:
- March 22, 1984 In memory of Oberstabsfeldwebel Phillipe Mariotti in the service of the French military liaison mission to the Soviet armed forces in Germany, he was the victim of a vehicle blockade by the GDR State Security
Below is in French:
- 22 mars 1984 A la mémoire de l'adjudant-Chef Phillipe Mariotti Membre de la mission militaire française de liaison auprès des forces armées soviétiques en Allemagne, il fut victime d'un barrage de voitures du service de sécurité de la RDA
The memorial was erected on the 20th anniversary of the disaster on March 21, 2004 in the presence of General a. D. Jean Paul Huet, then head of the French Mission, revealed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Söhnke Streckel: "Juwel 853". The fatal end of a trip by the French military liaison mission ( Memento des Originals from March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Listen and Look. Journal for the critical reappraisal of the SED dictatorship, issue 02/2008, pp. 52–55, accessed on December 10, 2011.
- ^ Matthias Heisig: Dangerous encounters. Cars, “blockages” and the death of Philippe Mariotti, in: Mission Accomplished. The military liaison missions of the Western powers in Potsdam from 1946 to 1990, Berlin 2004, pp. 108–114.
- ^ French sergeant receives a memorial in Halle , in: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of March 21, 2004, Halle (Saale)
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 32.8 " N , 11 ° 55 ′ 25.6" E