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Pierre Goldman, (Lyon, June 22, 1944 – September 20, 1979 in Paris) was a French left-wing intellectual who was convicted of several robberies and mysteriously assassinated. It has been suspected that the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (GAL) death squad was involved in his murder. His half-brother Jean-Jacques Goldman is a popular French singer. == Biography == Pierre Goldman was born near the end of World War II, the illegitimate son of Alter Mojze Goldman and Janine Sochaczewska, who were active in the FTP-MOI Resistance movement.〔()〕〔Michaël Prazan, ''L'assassinat de Pierre Goldman'' (2005) - film documentary〕 After the liberation of France, his parents separated, and his father, in concert with a group of former FTP-MOI members, kidnapped him. Thereafter, he had only sporadic contacts with his mother, who returned to Poland.〔 Though he was expelled from various high schools and boarding schools, Goldman obtained his baccalauréat and pursued courses at the Sorbonne as an independent auditor. He joined the Union of Communist Students in 1963.〔 In 1966, he refused to do his compulsory military service, and travelled to Cuba instead, where he heard Fidel Castro speak at the Tricontinental Conference in January 1966.〔 Still in Havana for the funerary eve after Che Guevara's death, he met through intermediary Régis Debray,〔 a number of Venezuelan ''guerrilleros''. Returning to Paris, he remained distant from May '68 activism. In June 1968 he returned to Venezuela and spent a year there in guerrilla activities. On June 11, 1969, after the attack of an arms depot his group withdrew in the ''sierra'', and then lost all support from Cuba which rallied with the Venezuelan government's side. Goldman then robbed the Royal Bank of Canada in Puerto La Cruz on June 11, 1969, taking 2.6 million bolívars (the biggest hold-up of that year〔), a robbery later claimed by the FALN guerrilla.〔 Of his comrades, only Goldman was not identified, fleeing in September to Paris.〔 Having quickly spent his remaining money, he staged several robberies of small businesses in December 1969 and January 1970. During this period, he reportedly considered kidnapping writer Jean-Edern Hallier, whom he profoundly disliked.〔 In 1974, he was given a life-sentence by the Paris cour d'assises after being convicted of a bloody robbery on December 19, 1969, on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, in which two pharmacists were killed. He denied having committed the robbery, although he admitted having conducted three earlier robberies.〔 He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the other three robberies and given a life sentence for the December 1969 assassination.〔 During the five years he spent in prison, he studied philosophy and Spanish, and wrote a book on his own case, ''Souvenirs obscurs d'un juif polonais né en France'' ( ''Obscure Memories of a Polish Jew Born in France''), published in 1975. The impact of the book on some French intellectuals and personalities, including the actress Simone Signoret, the writer Françoise Sagan, Jean-Paul Sartre and Régis Debray, among others,〔 plus many inconsistencies recorded during the investigation led to a second trial, which started on April 26, 1976. He was acquitted and freed in October 1976.〔 Afterward, he contributed to left-wing newspapers, joining the Temps Modernes and Libération.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pierre Goldman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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