Roger Gavoury

Roger Gavoury (born April 7, 1911 in Mello , † May 31, 1961 in Algiers ) was a French police chief. He was Division Commissioner Commissaire de police and Central Commissioner for Algeria. He was stabbed to death on May 31, 1961 in Algeria by two members of the OAS , Claude Piegts and Albert Dovecar , on the orders of Roger Degueldre . This happened eight days after he began investigating the OAS. Piegts and Dovecar were sentenced to death by a French military tribunal in Paris on March 30, 1962 , and executed by firing squad on June 7, 1962 . Delgueldre was also sentenced to death and executed on July 6, 1962.

Gavoury began his police career in Hazebrouck in 1936 and has held numerous posts. He helped organize the deployment of the police in French Morocco between 1956 and 1959. Gavoury went to Algeria in 1960. During the coup in Algeria in 1961, he was with his family in Charleville-Mézières . He immediately returned to Algeria, where he was murdered a month later. Three other commissioners were murdered in Algeria earlier that year.

Appreciations

• Posthumously promoted to "Contrôleur général de la Sûreté nationale "
• Order of the Nation (C itation à l'ordre de la Nation )
• His grave stone is "died for France" with the honorary title ( "Mort pour la France") characterized
• Knight of the Legion of Honor
• Military Merit Cross with Silver Star

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1. ^ World: France: Sense of Disarray . Time. June 9, 1961. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
2. ↑ ^{a b} May 31, 1961: assassinat à Alger du commissaire Gavoury ( French ) In: LDH Toulon . Ligue des Droits de l'Homme. Archived from the original on July 29, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 18, 2010.