1. Saadi Yacef was an Algerian revolutionary, politician and actor.
12 Facts About Saadi Yacef
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Saadi Yacef was a Senator in Algeria's Council of the Nation until his death.
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Saadi Yacef was born in the bustling Casbah district of Algiers on 20 January 1928, to illiterate ethnic Berber parents.
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Saadi Yacef's parents spoke Berber rather than French or Arabic.
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From 1947 to 1949, Yacef served in the MTLD's paramilitary wing, the Organisation Secrete.
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Saadi Yacef joined the FLN at the start of the Algerian War in 1954.
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Saadi Yacef was captured by French troops on 24 September 1957 and eventually sentenced to death.
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General Paul Aussaresses later asserted that while in custody, Saadi Yacef betrayed the FLN and the Algerian cause by providing the French army with the location of Ali la Pointe, another leading FLN commander.
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Saadi Yacef denied it, and historian Darius Rejali considers the accusation as highly suspect.
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Saadi Yacef was ultimately pardoned by the French government after Charles de Gaulle's 1958 return to power.
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Saadi Yacef played a character modeled on his own experiences in the battle.
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Saadi Yacef died on 10 September 2021, aged 93, in Algiers.