• Thumbnail for Marcel Bigeard
    aircraft into the sea had been dubbed crevettes de Bigeard ("Bigeard's shrimp"). However there is no evidence that Bigeard authorised or participated in such...
    56 KB (6,159 words) - 23:03, 4 May 2024
  • victims were called "crevettes Bigeard [fr]" 'Bigeard shrimp' after General Marcel Bigeard, who allegedly ordered the procedure. Bigeard put his victims'...
    7 KB (795 words) - 10:17, 11 January 2024
  • victims came to be known as "Bigeard's shrimp" (crevettes Bigeard), after one of the paratrooper commanders, Marcel Bigeard. During the Malagasy Uprising...
    27 KB (2,800 words) - 19:53, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Algiers (1956–1957)
    so-called "death flights". The victims were called "crevettes Bigeard [fr]", lit. Bigeard shrimps, after Bigeard. According to Paul Teitgen, secretary general...
    32 KB (3,914 words) - 21:28, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Torture during the Algerian War
    pour concrete on their feet. These victims were known as "Bigeard's shrimps" ("crevettes Bigeard") after the surname of a notorious paratroop helicopter...
    61 KB (6,962 words) - 22:06, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Algerian War
    the war. Marcel Bigeard's troops were accused of practicing "death flights", whose victims were called crevettes Bigeard (fr), "Bigeard shrimp". "Gégène"...
    174 KB (21,376 words) - 20:20, 5 May 2024
  • Marcel Bigeard and Jacques Massu made a systemic use of torture, the block warden system, and death flights (dubbed "Crevettes Bigeard", or "Bigeard's Shrimps")...
    10 KB (1,143 words) - 23:22, 27 October 2023