Commando Delta
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The Commando Delta were death squads of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS) active in French Algeria during the early 1960s. They "interdicted" European neighbourhoods by summarily executing any Muslims who entered. The Commando Delta were established by Roger Degueldre in 1961 during the final stages of the Algerian War; the word "Delta" signified Degueldre, a lieutenant who deserted from the French Foreign Legion in 1961.[1]
Commando Delta units were also responsible for the assassination of people considered as traitors by the OAS. However, a certain number of killings were alleged to have been done by the Service de documentation extérieure et de contre-espionnage (SDECE) to discredit the OAS, with such allegations ascribing them to the Service d'Action Civique or the La Main Rouge. As a result, it is not possible to clearly define which actions were ascribable to the Commando Delta in the chaotic situation of the time.
- BAO - Bureau d'Action Opérationnelle, (Lieutenant Roger Degueldre, Adjutant Lieutenant Pierre Delhomme), in charge of operations
- Commandos Delta (Lieutenant Roger Degueldre)
- Delta 1 (Albert Dovecar)
- Delta 2 (Wilfried Schliederman)
- Delta 3 (Jean-Pierre Ramos)
- Delta 4 (Lieutenant Jean-Loup Blanchy)
- Delta 5 (Josué Giner, dit « Jésus de Bab-el-Oued »)
- Delta 6 (Gabriel Anglade)
- Delta 7 (Jacques Sintes)
- Delta 9 (Jo Rizza)
- Delta 10 (Joseph-Edouard Slama)
- Delta 11 (Paul Mancilla)
- Delta 24 (Marcel Ligier)
- Delta 33 (Jacques Bixio)
- Commandos Delta (Lieutenant Roger Degueldre)
The Algerian War
The Commando Delta notably participated in the following actions :
- Château-Royal assassinations : assassinations of six persons associated with social centers;
- Opération Rock and Roll: 120 explosions in two hours on the night of 5–6 March 1962;
- The "March 22, 1962 murders", which led to the isolation of the Bab El Oued quarter of Algiers, the followed by a counter-protest by the OAS.[2]
- The Petit-Clamart attack : the assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle of 1962.
Several thousand murders of Algerians were attributed to the OAS.