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Denard served for two years in the Congo battling Simba rebels supporters of the late Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, who had been murdered in Katanga in 1961 after having been overthrown by rival politicians and severely tortured while in transit.
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Denard and served
After having served with the French Navy in Indochina and in French Algeria, Denard served as a colonial policeman in Morocco from 1952 to 1957.
Denard and for
Besides the military, Denard established his own company SOGECOM, for both the security and construction, and seemed to profit by the arrangement.
After his discharge from the French navy, Bob Denard was briefly a policeman in Morocco and a demonstrator for washing machines in Paris.
Bob Denard then waited in the Médoc region, in France, for his trial for the murder of president Ahmed Abdallah in 1989.
With his lieutenant Dominique Malacrino, he had to face charges in May 1999 for his role in the 1989 coup, in which, according to the French prosecution, president Ahmed Abdallah was killed on the orders of Denard because he was about to remove Denard as head of the presidential guard.
Bob Denard was brought back to France by the French DGSE intelligence agency for trial.
In 2001, Guido Papalia, Italian attorney of Verona, prosecuted Denard for having tried to recruit mercenaries in the far-right Italian movement ( through Franco Nerozzi ) in order to make a coup against Colonel Azali Assoumani, the current president, also opposed to his return to the Comoros.
Dominique Malacrino talked about the " numerous phone calls of Jacques Foccart, then responsible for the African office at the Elysée palace " to Bob Denard.
The future mercenary < span lang =" fr "> Bob Denard </ span > was convicted in 1954 and sentenced to fourteen months of jail for an assassination attempt against < span lang =" fr "> Mendès France </ span >.
The Spartans made it 21-14 before Isaiah Lewis returned a Denard Robinson interception for a touchdown to give a final score of 28-14 for Michigan State.
Beginning his career in 1964, Stockwell spent six years in Africa, Chief of Base in the Katanga during the Bob Denard invasion in 1968, then Chief of Station in Bujumbura, Burundi in 1970, before being transferred to Vietnam to oversee intelligence operations in the Tay Ninh province and was awarded the CIA Medal of Merit for keeping his post open until the last days of the fall of Saigon in 1975.
* Denard Robinson ( 2009 ): American football quarterback for the University of Michigan ( 2009 – present )
Denard and two
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Denard and years
For eleven years ( 1978-1989 ) Denard headed Abdallah's 500-strong presidential guard and had strong influence and business interests in the archipelago, marrying and converting to Islam and eventually becoming a citizen of the country.
" In July 2007, he was sentenced by the Court of Appeal to four years of prison ( one firm, three suspended ).< ref name = AFP >" Décès de l ' ancien mercenaire Bob Denard ", Agence France-Presse, October 14, 2007 on-line
Denard and Congo
After about eighteen months Denard returned to the Congo to take employment under Moise Tshombe who was now the prime minister of the central government in Leopoldville from July 1964 till October 1965 when was dismissed by President Joseph Kasa Vubu.
A year later Denard sided with Katangan separatists and Belgian mercenaries led by Jean Schramme in a revolt in eastern Congo.
Denard and late
Denard missed out on mercenary activity in Biafra during the Nigerian civil war during the late 1960s.
Denard and leader
The French and British sponsored a number of mercenaries to train the royalist volunteers in military techniques, and Bob Denard was among those who joined the Imam al-Badr, leader of the royalists.
On May 13, 1978, Soilih was finally overthrown by a fifty-member European mercenary unit, hired by exiled former leader Ahmed Abdallah in France and led by French Colonel Bob Denard.
Denard and who
* Bob Denard who was involved in numerous African campaigns in many countries, often with the covert support of France.
In June 2006 Denard, who by then was suffering from Alzheimer's, was found guilty of " belonging to a gang who conspired to commit a crime ", and was given a five-year suspended jail term.
Denard and had
By 3: 00 p. m. the next day Bob Denard and his mercenaries had surrendered.
In March 1996, following presidential elections, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, a member of the civilian government that Denard had tried to set up in October 1995, became president.
For most of his career Denard had the quiet backing of France and the French secret service which wished to maintain French influence over its ex-colonies.
During the three-week-long trial, Bob Denard and his accomplices tried to convince the court that they had acted with implicit support of French authorities.
Emmanuel Pochet, another suspect, declared that Denard had " support from senior officers of the special forces of the DGSE ", the French external intelligence agency.
Denard and been
Denard is known to have participated in conflicts in Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ), Yemen, Iran, Nigeria, Benin, Gabon, Angola, Zaire and the Comoros, the last-named nation having been subject to more than twenty coups d ' état in the past decades.
Denard and Katanga
Notable mercenaries in Katanga in 1960-61 included Alastair Wicks, Mike Hoare, Jean Schramme, and Bob Denard.
Denard and after
Shortly after the signing of the decree, a military officer allegedly entered president Abdallah's office and shot him, injuring Denard at the same time.
Denard and having
Despite having over 300 armed Comorians ready to fight and having machine gun posts set up, Denard surrendered without a shot being fired and spent ten months in a Paris jail.
Denard and by
A French mercenary by the name of Bob Denard, arrived in Comoros at dawn on 13 May 1978, and removed Soilih from power.
On September 28, 1995 Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries took over the Comoros islands in a coup ( named operation Kaskari by the mercenaries ) against President Djohar.
* May 12 – May 13 – A group of mercenaries led by Bob Denard oust Ali Soilih in the Comoros ; 10 local soldiers are killed.
Denard fought there until the secessionist movement led by Moise Tshombe collapsed in January 1963.
Denard helped put down an attempted coup on behalf of Tshombe by Katangan separatists in July 1966.
Helped by Denard, Ahmed Abdallah took the presidency back.
In 1989, fearing a probable coup d ' état, president Ahmed Abdallah signed a decree ordering the Presidential Guard, led by Bob Denard, to disarm the armed forces.
A few days later, Bob Denard was evacuated to South Africa by French paratroopers.
On 16 January 1977 an attempted coup d ' état took place in Benin with a group of armed men led by renowned French mercenary " Colonel " Bob Denard took place in Benin.
Denard and .
* 1929 – Bob Denard, French soldier and mercenary ( d. 2007 )
Under the reign of Abdallah, Denard was commander of the Presidential Guard ( PG ) and de facto ruler of the country.
When in 1981 François Mitterrand was elected president Denard lost the support of the French intelligence service, but he managed to strengthen the link between SA and the Comoros.
Their response was a ( third ) coup resulting in the death of President Abdallah, in which Denard and his men were probably involved.
South Africa and the French government subsequently forced Denard and his mercenaries to leave the islands in 1989.
Bob Denard began to take measures to stop the coming invasion.
Denard however ordered his mercenaries not to fight.
Denard was taken to France and jailed.
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They arrest Bob Denard and his mercenaries and take Denard to France ; Caabi el-Yachroutu becomes the interim president.
Denard forms a new government.
At the same time Bob Denard commanded the French speaking " 6 Commando ", " Black Jack " Schramme commanded " 10 Commando " and William " Rip " Robertson commanded a company of anti-Castro Cuban exiles.
Colonel Bob Denard ( April 7, 1929 – October 13, 2007 ), born Gilbert Bourgeaud, was a French soldier and mercenary.
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