Lucien Aimé-Blanc is a former French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 police

Police

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 officer. He was vice chief of staff of the Antigang brigade and also of the Narcotics brigade. He led the Office central de répression du banditisme (OCRB).

Lucien Aimé-Blanc revealed in L'Indic et le Commissaire (2006) that left-wing activist Pierre Goldman

Pierre Goldman

Pierre Goldman, was a French left-wing intellectual who was convicted of several robberies and mysteriously assassinated. It has been suspected that the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación death squad was involved in his murder...

 had been assassinated on September 20, 1979 by a commando of the GAL

Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación

Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación were death squads established illegally by officials of the Spanish government to fight ETA, the principal Basque separatist militant group. They were active from 1983 until 1987, under Spanish Socialist Workers Party -led governments...

, a Spanish

Spain

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 death squad

Death squad

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, led by Jean-Pierre Maïone. According to Aimé-Blanc, Henri Curiel

Henri Curiel

Henri Curiel was a left-wing political activist. Born in Egypt, Curiel led the communist Democratic Movement for National Liberation until he was expelled from the country in 1950. Settling in France, Curiel aided the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale and other national liberation causes...

, a famous anti-colonialist opposed to the Algerian War (1954–62) may also have been the victim of the same Jean-Pierre Maïone, who was his informant for years.