See also: Attia

OJ Attia , of its true name Joseph Brahim Attia is a gangster Paris IEN of the years 1940 to 60, owner of the Gavroche in Paris (street Joseph de Maistre). He was member of the Gang of Tractions, but also was implied in the removal of Ben Barka and in the business of the colonel Antoine Argoud, contreversées operations charged to the French Special services under the era gaullist.

Old of the Battalions of light infantry of Africa (the Beats of Af ), its biography during the Second world war remains fuzzy, its deportation being put sometimes on the account of its Jewish origins, sometimes on its actions in French resistance, on suspicions to have even soaked in the traffics of rationing. Henri Lafont, chief of the Fuselage (the French Gestapo), wanted to recruit OJ Attia, but this one refused by patriotism to work for the Germans, although truand  ; it did not support the presence of the Germans in France. Lafont ordered its execution, but his/her friends Abel Danos and Pierre Loutrel (future Pierrot-the-insane ) succeeded in convincing Lafont to deliver it to the Germans. It was off-set with Mauthausen, where it helped of many deportees to avoid death, by its physical courage and its energy. The former minister gaullist of justice Edmond Michelet, former deportee, was character reference to one of the many lawsuits of OJ Attia.

He died of a Cancer of the throat.

Source: the large criminals of Alphonse Boudard.

Books on OJ Attia

• OJ Attia my father of Nicole ATTIA at GALLIMARD, 1974

• Life and died of a caïd - OJ Attia of Jean MARCILLY at BEECH, 1977