Gave Order for His Own Execution
LONDON, March 20. Reuter’s Algiers correspondent reports that Pierre Pucheux, the former Vichy Minister of the Interior, who was found guilty of treason by a French Court in Algiers, as his last wish, asked permission to give the order to the firing squad to fire. This was granted. He walked, courageously to a firing range on the outskirts of Algiers, where a firing squad consisting of 12 mobile guards was drawn up. He had scarcely uttered the word “Fire” when he fell. The body was handed over to relatives. The British United Press correspondent says that Pucheux died without a bandage over his eyes and faced the firing squad without support. His hands were not tied. The Algiers correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph agency reports that an Arab who was charged before a military tribunal with cooking for the Germans was sentenced to death after a short hearing. 1 A new series of trials of 17 alleged members of the African Falange has opened in the room in which Pucheux was sentenced to death. The defendants are charged with treason and collaborating with the enemy.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 67, 23 March 1944, Page 7
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