Jean Bastien-Thiry

See also: Thiry

Jean Bastien-Thiry , of his complete name Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry , born the October 19th 1927 with Lunéville, shot the March 11th 1963 at the height of Ivry, was a military engineer French, lieutenant-colonel of the air force, which organized the Attentat of the Petit-Clamart in order to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.

Biography

Resulting from a family of soldier (his father was artillery lieutenant-colonel and its grandfather captain of cavalry), raises Polytechnic school and graduate of Supaéro, it specialized in the air-to-air missiles; he became principal military engineer of the Air in 1957. He had three girls.

Partisan of the French Algeria, member of OAS, it perceives the separation of with Algeria like “more serious still than that of with Alsace-Lorraine” and organizes against the general Of Gaulle the attack of the Petit-Clamart the August 22nd 1962, estimating to find in the remarks of Thomas d' Aquin (on legitimacy that in certain cases the Régicide can have) the conciliation between his project and his religion. Decree in September 1962 on its return of a scientific expedition in Great Britain, its lawsuit before the military Court chaired by the general Roger Gardet proceeds from January 28th to March 4th, 1963. Its lawyer is Master Jacques Isorni. Although it had made only one attempted murder, it was condemned to death, contrary to the gunners. However, De Gaulle refused of the grâcier, estimating that the fact of having made draw on a car occupied by a woman was a serious thing, and because, contrary to the other members of the commando, Bastien-Thiry had not taken direct risks. According to the rules of the death sentences by the Military Court, he was shot in front of a Firing squad at the height of Ivry, at the dawn of March 11th, 1963. It will be the last condemned to died by a Military Court, and thus the last with being shot in France.

A medical consideration nevertheless could have obtained this grace: Bastien-Thiry had made a Nervous breakdown little time before, and was still seems it under antidepressants at the time of its act; but by decision of condemned, the request for recourse in grace did not make state of it.

Declarations with the lawsuit

  • “It does not have there a direction of the History, there is no wind of the History because what makes the History, according to our Western design and Christian woman which is checked by all the historical facts, it is the will of the men, it is the intelligence of the men, they are their passions, good or bad. ”

  • “the danger which currently this country runs does not come from a risk of physical or material destruction: it is more subtle and deeper because it can lead to the destruction of human values, morals and spiritual which constitute the French inheritance. This inheritance comes from a heritage which is at the same time Greek, Latin, Western and Christian and rests on a precise design of freedom and dignity of the man and communities human and on the application of basic principles which are the research and the concern of justice, the respect of the truth and the word given and fraternal solidarity between all those which belong to the same Nation as a community. We believe that one does not violate with impunity and cynically these various principles without putting in danger of death, in his spirit and his heart, the very whole nation. ”

  • “capacity in fact to the possibility of making us condemn; but it does not have the right of it. The million men and women who suffered in their flesh, in their heart and in their goods, of the abominable policy and supremely unjust which was followed, is with us in this court to say that we made only our French duty. In front of the History, our fellow-citizens and our children, we proclaim our innocence, because we did nothing but put in practice the large one and eternal law of solidarity between the men. ”

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