Word: sadok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Very well, sir," agreed Tunisia's Foreign Minister Sadok Mokkadem. "From now on we won't talk about Algeria at all, unless you raise the matter yourself." Ten minutes later the conversation was once again back on Algeria...
...prisoner's dock in Paris' ancient Palais de Justice last week stood a pale, emotionless young Algerian named Mohammed ben Sadok, on trial for his life. Before the case got to judgment, France learned once again that the political assassin often carries his prosecutor with him before the bar of justice...
Last spring Assassin Ben Sadok, mingling with the crowd pouring from Colombes Stadium after a championship soccer game, shot and killed 60-year-old All Chekkal, onetime vice president of the Algerian National Assembly and one of France's most vocal supporters in North Africa (TIME. June 10), as he walked toward his car with Paris' director-general of police. In court last week 26-year-old Ben Sadok offered a highly literate defense (his favorite authors: Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Holland. Sartre, Camus). He denied that he had any connection with the rebellious Algerian F.L.N., explained that...
Workers, intellectuals and clergymen leaped to Ben Sadok's defense. Jean-Pierre Mayer, a member of the Young Catholic Worker movement, who had worked beside him as a plumber in Strasbourg, testified for the accused. He cried: "Ben Sadok, you are my friend, you are my brother, as we are all sons of the same God. Ali Chekkal would understand your gesture. No more bayonets between us." Witness Mayer departed, weeping...
...place in the wretched Algerian quarters of French cities, where followers of the Cairo-backed National Liberation Front (FLN) fight Messali Hadj's older Algerian National Movement (MNA), and each terrorize fellow Algerians for contributing to the other. Chekkal's assassin, an unemployed plumber named Mohammed ben Sadok, admitted that he had been selected by the FLN for the honor of killing Chekkal...