LEADERS OF O.A.S.

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29931, 19 September 1962, Page 22

LEADERS OF O.A.S.

Sentences Of Death

(N.Z.P A. -Reuter— Copyright) PARIS, Sept. 17. A Paris Military Court today sentenced Andre Canal —otherwise known as “The Black Monocle”—to death for his role as the alleged head of the “action, propaganda, and finance” section of the Secret Army in Metropolitan France. The Court also imposed a sentence of life imprisonment on Jean-Marte Vincent, leader of a plastic bomb commando group which disfigured and almost blinded a four and a half year old girl while attempting to blow up the home of the Minister of Culture (Mr Andre Malraux) last February. Canal, who got his nickname from the black monocle he wears over a glass eye, remained impassive, but Vincent cried out: “It's not so” and then embraced Canal Police announced an Air Force officer had confessed to leading the attempt to kill President de Gaulle last month. He was named as Lieutenant - Colonel JeanMarie Basr.ien-Thiry, aged 34, of the French Air Force. Police said he had been under interrogation since Saturday. He had confessed to presiding over meetings at which the abortive machine-gun attack was planned. Police said he had a former major, Henri Niaux, as an accomplice. Niaux, who hanged himself in a prison cell on Saturday, had been earlier identified as the ring-leader of the plot.