Georges Figon
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Georges Figon was a freelance barbouze
(French crook) that arranged the meeting with Mehdi Ben Barka
in the Brasserie Lipp. Later he told L'express
that he had seen who killed Barka. He accused General Oufkir whom he saw torturing Barka. Before the second trial Figon was found dead on January 17, 1966, in his apartment, according to official records by suicide
. But there were some loose ends and suicide was the easiest way to explain what happened. In the book of Henrik Kruger, the great heroin coup, the author tells that the one who shot and thus far killed Figon, was Christian David.
Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage
The Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage was France's external intelligence agency from 6 November 1944 to 2 April 1982 when it was replaced by the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure...
(French crook) that arranged the meeting with Mehdi Ben Barka
Mehdi Ben Barka
Mehdi Ben Barka was a Moroccan politician, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces and secretary of the Tricontinental Conference...
in the Brasserie Lipp. Later he told L'express
L'Express (France)
L'Express is a French weekly news magazine. When founded in 1953 during the First Indochina War, it was modelled on the US magazine TIME.-History:...
that he had seen who killed Barka. He accused General Oufkir whom he saw torturing Barka. Before the second trial Figon was found dead on January 17, 1966, in his apartment, according to official records by suicide
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
. But there were some loose ends and suicide was the easiest way to explain what happened. In the book of Henrik Kruger, the great heroin coup, the author tells that the one who shot and thus far killed Figon, was Christian David.