465:, Bastien-Thiry claimed that while the other conspirators might have been trying to kill the head of state, he had only been attempting to capture de Gaulle in order to deliver him to a panel of sympathetic judges. Bastien-Thiry, who had been deemed fit to stand trial by psychiatrists despite a history of clinical depression, was convicted and sentenced to death, as were two of his accomplices, de la Tocnaye and Prevost. The only conspirator to escape was OAS member Georges Watin (also known as "The Lame Woman" or "The Limp" because of an old war wound), who died in February 1994 at age 71. Another suspect, OAS commander and retired French major Henri Niaux, hanged himself in prison on 15 September 1962.
435:) and some nearby shops were raked with machine-gun fire. De Gaulle and his wife and entourage escaped, uninjured. After the attempt, holes from 14 bullets were found in the president's vehicle, one of which barely missed his head. Another 20 were found to have struck the nearby Café Trianon and an additional 187 spent shell casings were found on the pavement. De Gaulle was said to have credited the unusual resilience of the unarmored Citroën DS with saving his life: although the shots had punctured two of the tyres, the car escaped at full speed.
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358:, where he specialized in the design of air-to-air missiles. In 1957, he was promoted to principal military air engineer. He was married to Geneviève Lamirand whose father, Georges Lamirand (1899–1994), had been General Secretary of Youth from September 1940 to March 1943 in the government of
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an integral part of the French nation, as opposed to other French colonies. However, French rule did not grant voting rights to
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Algeria, in September 1959 de Gaulle reversed his policy and supported Algerian independence. Until this time, Bastien-Thiry had been a Gaullist, but he now he became an opponent. As a result of the new policy, two referenda on
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Bastien-Thiry in Algiers, but no further collaboration ensued. Bastien-Thiry never had contact with the OAS organisation and he never stated that his direct chief was Jean Bichon, who was arrested later.
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