Roger Coudroy
Roger Coudroy | |
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| Nickname(s) | Salah |
| Born | 1935 Belgium |
| Died | June 8 1968 Palestine |
| Allegiance |  Palestine |
| Service | Fatah |
| Years of service | 1968 |
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 will be shot dead by the Israeli army during a clash with this one.
Biography
Born in Belgium in 1935, he studied and worked in France before moving to the Middle East to practice his profession.
Roger Coudroy will eventually engage in Fatah and take the lead of a brigade.
He will write a book there: J'ai vécu la résistance palestinienne (I lived the Palestinian resistance) shortly before his death[1].
He was shot by IDF on June 3, 1968. He was the first European dead on the front against the state of Israel[2].
Bibliography
• J'ai vécu la résistance palestinienne, Roger Coudroy, 1968
Source
• Francis Balace et al., De l'avant à l'après-guerre : l'extrême droite en Belgique francophone, Brussels, De Boeck-Wesmael, 1994.