The barbouzes suffered ambush almost immediately after arriving in Algiers

Evidence

For Hacq, installed in an office inside the Algiers Police School under the name of “Professor Ermelin”, there now began a five-months’ methodical and relentless hunt, ending only when the O.A.S. had been tracked down. For Bitterlin and his barbouzes it almost immediately opened with disaster. Within three days of his having established Jim Alcheik’s team in a rented villa in the Chemin Raynaud, Bitterlin was ambushed by four Deltas. His driver was badly wounded in the abdomen, while Bitterlin received superficial shoulder wounds; but for the heavy steel of the old Mercedes in which they were driving they would both probably have been riddled with bullets. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1500

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pied noir civilians burned wounded barbouzes alive as they fled; The sacrificial barbouzes served as a decoy that exposed the OAS

Related

• Pied noir civilians burned wounded barbouzes alive as they fled (similarity 0.94)
• The sacrificial barbouzes served as a decoy that exposed the OAS (similarity 0.88)
• Pied noir civilians enthusiastically participated in killing O.A.S. targets directly (similarity 0.80)
• The state’s anti-O.A.S. barbouzes were hopelessly outmatched amateurs (similarity 0.79)
• The anti-O.A.S. barbouzes were amateur amateurs outmatched by the Deltas (similarity 0.79)
• The O.A.S. extorted pieds noirs with surveillance and threats (similarity 0.78)