AMBUSH OF DE GAULLE

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 13

AMBUSH OF DE GAULLE

r* ‘ i- Wap- .- ■' . raitt . . .tease. Affm**!OsgvHpMt *nas trial of IB man mcvhM to artiiiih nmlm Grate All ata* Mfc, wto .tad' bean held Kliff wore resumed thia ■featkfofl.’ l Hh otter . frp • l**t»g tried ttata moraine, daftaoe counsel ■reitZt fo* *K» , 'ryawt was not ccmpotairi in the effbir. Ueuteoaot-Cototal Wmß Maria Btaten-Tbtey, aged M, who was alleged to have directed the machinegun sanimah attempt on Preciden* de GeuUe’s life, tad said that he and the other . accused would net appear in Court Police named BaetienThiry. a French Air Force engineer, as corrieseed “supreme leader" of the coin* mondo, Reuter repeated.. The men ware charged with an attempt on the life of the against the autnonty or the State with use of arene. Ttey face a possible death sentence. Bastien-Thiry appeared in the dock in uniform, as did Lieutenant Alain de Bougreoert de la Tocnaye, aged 37. Others in the dock were Pascal Bertin, aged 21, a student; Pierre Magade, a mechanic bora in Algeria; Etienne Ducaaae. 24, a student; Jacques Prevost, an electronics engineer; Alphonse Constantin, 35, a boilermaker; Gerard Buisines, 36, a former legionnaire; and Laslo Varga, a Hungarianborn mechanic.

The six who have fled include two Hungarian former legionnaire*. Maitre Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignan-cour, the former Right-wing Deputy who saved the O.A.S leader, Raoul Salon, from the firing squad, represented Bastien-Thiry. He contended that the Court had “no legal existence.”