Word: biaggi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew more arrogant with success. They called an organization meeting to merge war veterans, Poujadists and students into a Committee for Public Safety. Veteran leaders who had consulted Mollet were shouted down. "Why talk to Mollet?" the crowd yelled. Up sprang a little man with bulging eyes. Jean Baptiste Biaggi, a Corsican lawyer from Paris, had flown in, a week earlier, with the avowed purpose of whipping up a new French Revolution. "Victory is yours now! Don't drop it!" bellowed Biaggi. "Mollet's surrender was unconditional. Throw out his policy just as you did Catroux...
...crowd roared approval, and before the evening was over, Biaggi was in control of the Committee for Public Safety. Next day Biaggi took his oratory and obscenities to the meeting of local mayors, talked them into issuing a manifesto demanding that all convicted Algerian terrorists now in jail be hanged out of hand...