La Main Rouge

La Main Rouge, German Red Hand, one operated by the foreign department of the French intelligence service Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure ( DGSE ) in the 1950s Terrorganisation who pursued the goal of supporters of the Algerian Unabhängigkeitsbestrebung and leading members of the Front de Libération was National ( FLN) to liquidate in the Algerian war.

In the Federal Republic of Germany of the Red Hand were assigned several bombings, including against the arms dealer Otto Schlüter on September 26 of 1956, and on June 3, 1957, Puchert (aka Captain Morris) on 3 March 1959. However, could ultimately are never clarified.

On November 27, 1959, the then thirty -year-old Christian Durieux the Daily Mail gave an interview in which he claimed that the attacks on Schlüter and Puchert and is lying on the October 1, 1958 in Hamburg harbor freighters Atlas and also on the Algerian exile politicians Amédiane Ait Alcene to have committed on behalf of the Red Hand.

In particular, the apparent inaction of the French authorities was seen abroad as an indication of the French Government that this had prompted the aggressive action against supporters of the FLN.