Pierre Overney (1948 – 25 February 1972) was a French worker and
Maoist
Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...
political activist. He was killed by a security guard.
Death
Pierre Overney was a worker in the
Renault
Groupe Renault ( , , , also known as the Renault Group in English; legally Renault S.A.) is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans, and in the past has manufactured ...
automobile factory. He was fired from his job. On Friday, 25 February 1972, Overney and other activists were distributing pamphlets to the workers as they entered and left the gates. Pierre got into a dispute with security guard Jean-Antoine Tramoni. The guard pulled a gun and shot Overney.
Reactions
Armed actions
On 1 March 1972, in response to the murder, a group of activists set fire to the cars in the Renault depot.
On 8 March 1972, the Maoist organization ' kidnapped
Robert Nogrette.
Funeral
200,000 attended Overney's funeral, including
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and litera ...
and
Michel Foucault
Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how ...
.
Trial of Tramoni and action of the NAPAP
Tramoni's trial began in January 1973. The court sentenced him to four years in prison. Following his release from prison on 23 March 1977, Tramoni was killed by the Maoist group
Armed Nuclei for Popular Autonomy
Armed Nuclei for Popular Autonomy (french: Noyaux armés pour l'autonomie populaire), also known as ''NAPAP'', was a French Maoist armed organization formed in December 1976. According to the police, the leader of the NAPAP was Christian Harbulot ...
[Anne Argouse and Hugues Peyret, ]
Mort pour la cause du peuple
', 52 minutes, FR3 Haute-Normandie, 17 October 2013.
Commemoration in culture
French singer Dominique Grange dedicated a song named ''Pierrot est tombé'' to Pierre Overney.
See also
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Mao-Spontex
Revolutionary spontaneity, also known as spontaneism, is a revolutionary socialist tendency that believes the social revolution can and should occur spontaneously from below by the working class itself, without the aid or guidance of a vanguar ...
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Gauche prolétarienne
The (GP) was a French Maoist political party which existed from 1968 to 1974. As Christophe Bourseiller has put it, "Of all the Maoist organizations after May 1968, the most important numerically as well as in cultural influence was without quest ...
References
External links
Murder of Pierre Overney - archival photos
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French Maoists