OAS Leader's Trial Continues
PARIS — (UPI) The prosecution called witnesses today to testify that former Gen. Raoul Salan was guilty of treason when he headed the Secret Army Organization (OAS) against the government in Algeria and France. Conviction could bring the death penalty.
As the third day of his trial opened at 1:05 p.m. (8:05 a.m. EDT) in a heavily-guarded courtroom of the Palace of Justice, the prosecution called as its first witness Jean Morin, former delegate general in Algeria.
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HE WAS TO BE FOLLOWED BY a host of other top administrators and officials, including Robert Janin, a former prefect in the North African territory.
The line of testimony the prosecution was presenting before the special French high military tribunal trying Salan centered on events relating to the so-called Generals' Revolt in Algiers in April 1961, and on OAS activities that took place after Salan assumed command after the revolt failed.
In an opening statement yesterday, Salan accepted full responsibility for OAS activities—including its terrorism. With that, he resolved to remain silent for the rest of the trial.
Observers said the defense now will maneuver to turn the trial into a political cause celebre, portraying Salan as a patriot attempting to keep Algeria and its million Europeans from being sold out by the government in Paris.
TODAY'S SESSION PRODUCED a clash between the four defense lawyers and the prosecution for the first time in the trial.
The court president and the state prosecutor flatly refused a defense demand that former Algeria supreme military commander Gen. Charles Ailleret — who testified yesterday — be brought face-to-face in court with Morin.
When the four defense attorneys insisted, the prosecutor said to defense lawyer Bernard Le Coroller: "You are being childish!"
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