Didier Daeninckx is a French

France

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 author and left-wing politician, best known for his romans noirs

Hardboiled

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. He frequently uses fictional settings to transport social critique; his writings are characterized by a sobering social realism. An anti-fascist, he has also written on the Alsace Soviet Republic

November 1918 in Alsace

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, on eugenicist Alexis Carrel

Alexis Carrel

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, on Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial

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, etc.

In his book Le Goût de la vérité (1996), he accuses the Ras l'front cofounder Gilles Perrault

Gilles Perrault

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 of being "fascist".

In July 2001, the left-wing weekly Politis denounced Daeninckx as "using Stalin's methods".

He contributes to the website Amnistia.net in which wrote many former members of Red Brigades

Red Brigades

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(such as Enrico Porsia or Corrado Balocco).