Pierre Lagaillarde

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Pierre Lagaillarde (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ laɡajaʁd]; Courbevoie, 15 May 1931 – 17 August 2014) was a French far-right politician, and a founder of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a clandestine militant organisation that sought to prevent Algeria's independence from French colonial rule. Lagaillarde was a lawyer at Blida in Algeria, a reserve officer of the paratroopers, and an elected deputy of Algiers. He was president of the Association générale des étudiants d'Alger (General Association of Algiers’ Students) in 1957, and took part in the Algiers insurrection of May 1958, which brought Charles de Gaulle back to power. Lagaillarde was a member of the Comité de salut public which opposed Algerian independence, and occupied the Gouvernement général de l'Algérie (local colonial administration). In January 1960, he became a leader of the insurrection during the week of the barricades. Lagaillarde was then detained in La Santé Prison in Paris, and while imprisoned, he was visited...

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