Améziane Aït Ahcène (1931 – 1959) was an Algerian lawyer, FLN politician, and ambassador of the Algerian '' Front de Libération Nationale'' in

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. He was shot out of a moving car on November 5, 1958, in

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and died months later in a

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n hospital. Améziane Aït Ahcène studied law and was a lawyer in Algeria. He came to

, the capital of West-Germany, as head of the unofficial German Mission of the Algerian Freedom Movement (FLN). On November 5, 1958, Améziane Aït Ahcène was shot down from a moving car outside the Tunisian embassy in Bonn. A burst from a heavy submachine gun, according to

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, the weapon used was an 11.9 caliber machine pistol. The attack is attributed to the French state-run terrorist organization of the French secret service SDECE, La Main Rouge. Améziane Aït Ahcène received medical treatment in

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and was subsequently appointed head of the FLN by exiled prime minister

Ferhat Abbas Ferhat Abbas (; ALA-LC: ; 24 August 1899 – 24 December 1985) was an Algerian politician who acted in a provisional capacity as the then yet-to-become independent country's Prime Minister from 1958 to 1961, as well as the first President of the ...

. He later died of

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in Tunisia due to his injuries.Matthias Ritzi, Erich Schmidt-Eenboom: Im Schatten des Dritten Reiches. Ch. Links Verlag, 2011, , S. 188,

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