Roger Coudroy

Roger Coudroy (1935–1968), nicknamed Salah by the Palestinians, was a revolutionary nationalist militant member of Jeune Europe and Fatah, engaged in armed struggle in Palestine. He was be shot dead by the Israeli army during a clash.

Roger Coudroy
Nickname(s)Salah
Born1935
Belgium
DiedJune 3 1968
Palestine
Allegiance Palestine
Service/branchFatah
Years of service1968
Battles/warsIsraeli–Palestinian conflict

Biography

Born in Belgium in 1935, he studied and worked in France before moving to the Middle East to practice his profession.

Coudroy would eventually engage in Fatah and take the lead of a brigade.

He wrote a book there: J'ai vécu la résistance palestinienne (I lived the Palestinian resistance) shortly before his death.[1]

He was shot by the IDF on June 3, 1968. He was the first European to die on the front against the state of Israel.[2]

Bibliography

  • J'ai vécu la résistance palestinienne, Roger Coudroy, 1968
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See also

  • Revolutionary Nationalism
  • Pan-European Nationalism
  • Jean Thiriart

Source

  • Francis Balace et al., De l'avant à l'après-guerre : l'extrême droite en Belgique francophone, Brussels, De Boeck-Wesmael, 1994.

References


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