Julien Lahaut

Julien Lahaut (Seraing, on September 6th, 1884 - assassinated with Seraing on August 18th, 1950) is a Politician, Belgian trade unionist and a Walloon militant.

Communist deputy and president of the Belgian Communist party. Hero of Resistance to the Nazism. Stopped by the Gestapo which has the " Belgian file " when Hitler puts an end to the pact germano-Soviet, he is tortured at the height Huy and is off-set towards the concentration camp of Mauthausen. He survived and returned to Belgium to direct PCB.

When Baudouin lent the constitutional oath of future king in front of the joined together rooms on August 11th, 1950, one of the communist members of Parliament shouted “ Vive the Republic! ”, followed by Julien Lahaut. It is probably one of the reasons for which he was assassinated by two killers in front of his house, seven days later.

He is in addition the hero of a part of Jean Louvet entitled the man who had the sun in his pocket (1982), allusion to the nickname that his/her companions of captivity in the Nazi camps had given him.

Quotations

“ national-socialisme carries out all our democratic aspirations ” in a made speech with Villeneuve-sur-Lot in June 1940. Declaration to be given in the context of the Pact Molotov-Ribbentrop.

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