André Aliker (Roches-Carrées,

Lamentin Lamentin ( Guadeloupean Creole: ) is a commune in the French overseas department and region of Guadeloupe. It is part of the agglomeration of Pointe-à-Pitre, in the north part of Basse-Terre. Three islets are included in the commune: Christop ...

, 10 February 1894 - 10, 11 or 12 January 1934) was a militant Martiniquais communist journalist who was abducted and murdered. Aliker was editor of ''Justice'', the

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

newspaper, publishing for example in 1933 accusations that Eugène Aubéry, the wealthy

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owner of the Société Anonyme de Lareinty, had bribed the judges of the Court of Appeal to dismiss charges of tax fraud against his wife in 1929.Histoire de la Martinique: Volume 2 Armand Nicolas - 1996 "Grâce à ce riche mariage, Eugène Aubéry est nommé, en octobre 1919, administrateur de la Société Anonyme de Lareinty. Dès lors, c'est lui qui mène l'affaire. Avec tant d'habileté qu'en 1924 sa femme se trouve propriétaire de .." On 1 January 1934, Aliker was abducted for the first time, beaten and thrown into the sea, but survived. He wrote to his brother

Pierre Aliker Pierre Aliker (9 February 1907 – 5 December 2013) was a French Martinican politician, physician and independence activist. Born in Le Lamentin, Aliker co-founded the Martinican Progressive Party (MPP) in March 1958. In January 2009, at the age ...

(doctor and later co-founder of the Parti progressiste martiniquais) that Eugène Aubéry had put a price on his head. Some days later he was again abducted by persons unknown and his body was washed up on the beach with his arms tied behind him on 12 January.

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