Lucien Aimé-Blanc (23 March 1935 – 19 February 2020)"Mort de l’ancien commissaire Lucien Aimé-Blanc, légende de la police"
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. Born in

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, he became vice chief of staff of the

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(BRI) and also of the

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brigade. He led the '' Office central de répression du banditisme'' (OCRB). Lucien Aimé-Blanc revealed in ''L'Indic et le Commissaire'' (2006) that

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had been assassinated on 20 September 1979 by a commando of the GAL, a Spanish assassination squad, led by Jean-Pierre Maïone. According to Aimé-Blanc, Henri Curiel, a

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opposed to

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may also have been the victim of the same Jean-Pierre Maïone, who was his informant for years.

References

*Lucien Aimé-Blanc, and Jean-Michel Caradec'h. ''L'Indic et le Commissaire'' (Plon, 2006) French police officers 1935 births 2020 deaths People from Marseille {{Law-enforcement-bio-stub