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Hamida Djandoubi

Hamida Djandoubi (1949?–September 10, 1977) was the last person to be guillotined in France, at Baumettes Prison in Marseille. He was a Tunisian immigrant who had been convicted of the torture and murder of 21 year-old Elisabeth Bousquet in Marseille. Marcel Chevalier served as chief executioner.

Born in Tunisia around 1949, Djandoubi started living and working in Marseille, France in 1968, as a packer. He lost his job in 1971 after a workplace accident removed two-thirds of his right leg.

In 1973, a 21-year-old woman named Elisabeth Bousquet filed a complaint against Djandoubi for illegal confinement and cruelty, claiming that he had tried to force her into prostitution.

After his arrest and eventual release from custody during the spring of 1973, Djandoubi drew two other young girls into his confidence and then forced them to "work" for him. The idea of vengeance against his accuser never left his head, however, and in July 1974 he kidnapped Bousquet and took her into his home where, in full view of the terrified girls, he beat the unfortunate woman mercilessly before stubbing a lit cigarette all over her breasts and genital area. Despite this ordeal Bousquet managed to remain alive so Djandoubi took her by car to the outskirts of Marseille and there strangled her.

On his return Djandoubi warned the two girls to say nothing of what they had seen, and it was not until Bousquet's body was identified one month after its discovery in a shed by two children on July 7, 1974 that the girls finally found the courage to take their story to the authorities.

After a lengthy pre-trial process, Djandoubi eventually appeared in court in Aix-en-Provence on charges of torture-murder, rape and premeditated violence on February 24, 1977. His main defence revolved around the supposed effects of the amputation of his leg six years earlier which his advocate claimed had driven him to a paroxysm of alcohol and violence, turning him into a "different" man. All to no avail, however: on February 25 he was condemned to death. An appeal against his sentence was rejected on June 9, and in the early morning of September 10, 1977, Djandoubi was awoken to be informed that all hope of a presidential reprieve had failed. Shortly afterwards, at 4:40 a.m., he was executed.

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