Pierre Overney
Pierre Overney ( 1948 - February 25, 1972 ) was a French worker and Maoist who was shot by the Renault factory police in Billancourt .
Circumstances of death
About a year after Renault sacked Pierre Overney, on February 25, at the end of the morning shift on avenue Émile-Zola in front of the Billancourt factory, he was handing out leaflets with a dozen other Maoists of the Gauche prolétarienne for a demonstration to commemorate the metro station massacre Charonne . When the Maoists, some of them armed with poles or clubs, stepped a few meters through the factory gate, they were stopped by several factory police officers.
At 2:30 p.m., without any previous violence and without being directly threatened, the chief of the works police, Jean-Antoine Tramoni, killed Overney with a pistol shot in the chest. The events were documented by the present journalist Claude-François Jullien from the Nouvel Observateur and photographed by Christophe Schimmel from the Agence de presse Liberation (APL) .
Overney's grave is in the Père Lachaise cemetery (59th Division).
aftermath
Overney's violent death resulted in a demonstration of over 120,000 people through Paris . There was no further political or social impact because the dominant union at the Renault plant , the CGT , which at the time was close to the French Communist Party , which was working towards a parliamentary success , did not join the protests. This development was partially received as a visible end point of the 1968 movement .
Jean-Antoine Tramoni, who shot Overney, was murdered on March 23, 1977 by the Noyaux armés pour l'autonomie populaire (NAPAP).
On November 17, 1986, a "Pierre Overney command" from Action Directe shot and killed the director of the Renault works, Georges Besse, on his doorstep.
literature
- Morgan Sportès: Ils ont tué Pierre Overney . Grasset, Paris 1972, ISBN 978-2-246-71201-5 .
- Groupe pour la fondation de l'Union des communistes de France marxistes-léninistes: A propos du meurtre de Pierre Overney: Renault-Billancourt, quelquesproblemèmes fondamentaux du prolétariat révolutionnaire . F. Maspero, Paris 1972.
Web links
- http://www.mao-projekt.de/INT/EU/F/Frankreich_Renault_Pierre_Overney.shtml
- Death for nothing . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1972, p. 106 ( Online - Mar. 6, 1972 ).
- Romain Leick: Death of the Left . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 2008, p. 166-168 ( Online - June 2, 2008 ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Terrorists murder the Renault boss . Die Zeit, November 21, 1986
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Overney, Pierre |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French worker and Maoist who was shot by the Renault factory police |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1972 |
Place of death | Billancourt , Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine department , France |