Susini’s politics inverted his Communist father’s left-wing sympathies.
Evidence
In the shadows behind Ortiz there now emerged a new and more effectual figure: Jean-Jacques Susini. Aged only twenty-five in 1959, Susini, who was of Corsican origin, had missed the great moments of both February 1956 and May 1958, when Ortiz and Lagaillarde had made their names with the mob, because he was still studying medicine in France. In contrast to his father, a Communist worker on the Algerian railways with pro-F.L.N. sympathies, young Jean-Jacques was as far to the Right as his father was to the Left. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1066
Categorization
- XREF: Susini becomes a central figure in the OAS — relevant to how the settler counter-revolution radicalized across the war’s late years.
Related
- A twenty-seven-year-old ex-student supplied the O.A.S.’s political direction (similarity 0.84)
- Ortiz and Susini were complementary in charisma and intellect. (similarity 0.80)