Dominique Venner

"Dominique Venner, who has shot himself dead in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris aged 78, was a prize-winning historian and leading figure on the French far-Right; he called for the defence of the Europe from “Islamicisation” and the “boredom” of bourgeois liberal and socialist ideas.






Born on April 16 1935, the son of an ardent supporter of the fascist, anti-Semitic Parti Populaire Français , Venner became a member of the neo-fascist Jeune Nation and Jeune Europe groups during the 1950s, taking part in an attack on the headquarters of the French Communist Party in November 1956.
He had returned from two years’ service in the bloody Algerian war only the previous month, and in 1961 he joined the Organisation de l’Armée Secrète (OAS), a paramilitary group which launched a campaign of assassinations and bombings to prevent Algeria breaking free from French colonial rule. The campaign culminated in an assassination attempt on the French president General de Gaulle. As a result of his membership Venner spent 18 months in La Santé prison. By the time he was released in 1962, the war in Algeria was over."
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