Bonnot Gang

The Bonnot Gang (La Bande à Bonnot ) was a criminal group, whose members are known to anarchism and which operated in France and Belgium from 1911 to 1912. It was made up of people who identified with the philosophy of Illegalismus. The gang used high-tech equipment such as bolt action and automobiles, which was not yet the police made ​​available.

Originally, the group in the press was simply referred to as " bandit car ", since a motor vehicle was used for a criminal act for the first time. After Jules Bonnot gave the popular newspaper " Petit Parisien " an interview, the organization was called in the wake of the Bonnot gang. The perceived by the press line function Bonnots was later strengthened when his spectacular death during an exchange of fire with the French police in Nogent became public.

Members

The Bonnot gang was originally made up of a group of French anarchists around the individualanarchistische magazine l' anarchy. It was founded by Octave Garnier, Raymond Callemin and René Valet. It was Garnier's idea to use automobiles for criminal acts. Jules Bonnot met in December 1911 to do so.

Main members of the gang were:

  • Raymond Callemin ( la Science )
  • Jules Bonnot (le Bourgeois ), a professional car thief
  • René Valet, secretary of the Revolutionary Youth
  • Anna Dondon, a convicted forger
  • Octave Garnier (le Terrassier ), an illegal war Objectors
  • Marie Vuillemin ( la Belge)
  • André Soudy ( Pas de chance ), a young ill with tuberculosis grocer
  • Édouard Carouy (le Rouquin ), a professional burglar
  • Jeanne Belardi, an Italian
  • Jean De Boe, organizer of the revolutionary group Brussels
  • Élie Monier, an illegal war Objectors
  • Eugène Dieudonné, an anti-militarist from Nancy

Other less central members were of the " chemist ", the anti-militarist Marius Medge, Antoine Gauzy, Pierre Jourdan, Charles Reinart Victor Lvovitch Kibalchich, the Russian refugee Godorowski, Henriette Maîtrejean and Berbe Leclech.

The political and social perspective of the band was heavily influenced by Bakunin and Pierre Joseph Proudhon and Max Stirner, Ludwig Büchner, Friedrich Nietzsche Félix Le Dantec and. Bonnots ideas voted more in line with those of the late anarchists Ravachol.

Jules Bonnot

Octave Garnier

Édouard Carouy

Eugène Dieudonné

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