Yacef Saâdi

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Yacef Saâdi (1955)

Yacef Saâdi (born January 20, 1928 in Algiers ; † September 10, 2021 there ) was one of the leaders of the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) during the Algerian War of Independence . From 2001 to 2016 he was a senator in the Conseil de la Nation of Algeria.

Life

Yacef Saâdi was born in 1928 in Algeria , which was under French rule, and completed an apprenticeship as a baker. In 1945 he joined the Parti du peuple algérien , a nationalist party that was soon declared illegal by the French administration. Then its members gathered in the newly founded Mouvement pour le triomphe des libertés démocratiques (MTLD). Between 1947 and 1949 he served in the paramilitary wing of the MTLD. After the organization was dissolved, he moved to France and lived there until 1952, then returned to Algeria to resume his work as a baker.

When the Algerian War began in 1954, Saâdi joined the FLN. In May 1956 he was the military chief of the FLN in the Autonome d'Alger zone. He thus became one of the leaders of the Algerian war party in the attack on Algiers from January to September 1957. He was arrested by French troops on September 24, 1957 and sentenced to death. During his capture, according to - dubious - information from the French General Paul Aussaresses , he revealed the location of Ali la Pointe , another FLN leader , to the French troops . Saâdi was pardoned by French President Charles de Gaulle in 1958.

During his time in prison, Saâdi wrote his war memoirs, which were published by Juillard in Paris in 1962 under the title Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger . After the Algerian war, he also advised the film The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo , which was based on his book. Saâdi himself also took on a role in this film.

On January 6, 2001, Saâdi was appointed a member of the National Council ( Conseil de la Nation / Majlis al-'Umma ) by President Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika . His mandate was not renewed in January 2016.

Yacef Saâdi died in Algiers on September 10, 2021.

Web links

Commons : Yacef Saadi  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Amine Ait: Yacef Saâdi est mort: un grand nom de le révolution s'éteint. In: algerie360.com. September 10, 2021, accessed September 11, 2021 (French).
  2. ^ Walter Schicho: Handbook Africa - North and East Africa . tape 3/3 . Brandes & Apsel Verlag / Südwind, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-86099-122-1 , p. 90 .
  3. ^ Yacef Saadi: Ali-la-Pointe. In: Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger 1956. Julliard, Paris, 1962, accessed September 11, 2021 (English, translated by Mitchell Abidor; reproduced from marxists.org).
personal data
SURNAME Saâdi, Yacef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Algerian resistance fighter, leader of the Front de Liberation Nationale
BIRTH DATE January 20, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Algiers
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Algiers