Salan escaped execution as courts showed leniency to O.A.S. leaders.

Evidence

Salan was brilliantly defended by Tixier-Vignancour, and on the eighth day of the trial a verdict of guilty, but “with extenuating circumstances”, was read out to a packed court; the sentence was life imprisonment, but Salan’s life was saved. His supporters broke into an ecstatic Marseillaise in the courtroom; at the Élysée de Gaulle erupted in rage at the judges’ leniency, and four days later had the tribunal suppressed. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1643

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Junior O.A.S. officer Degueldre was executed while senior leaders were spared. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1644

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Broader Connections

• Junior O.A.S. officer Degueldre was executed while senior leaders were spared. #exemplifies (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1644