Posted on 02/11/2023 11:39:14 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
Fernand Iveton (or Yveton) was guillotined on this date in 1957, for Algeria.
An pied-noir gas worker, Iveton (English Wikipedia entry | French) attempted to bomb the Algerian Gas Company in support of the National Liberation Front, to which he also belonged.
Wishing to commit his sabotage sans bloodshed, he timed the bomb to detonate when the plant would be empty … but under close surveillance, he was stopped in the act of setting it on the evening of November 14, 1956.
Iveton’s tenderness for his countrymen’s lives was not reciprocated by the military court which, acting with frightful emergency powers, death-sentenced him as a terrorist 10 days later. The man’s last mercy appeal was denied by the Minister of Justice, Francois Mitterrand* — who as President of France a quarter-century hence would abolish the the death penalty....
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Bombing a gas company sounds like it could kill a whole lot of people not even connected with it regardless of WHEN you blow it up. I’ll give credit for picking the target well, even if execution was lacking.
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