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Simon Sabiani
Born14 May 1888
Casamaccioli, Haute-Corse, France
Died29 September 1956 (1956-09-30) (aged 68)
Barcelona, Spain
NationalityFrench
OccupationPolitician
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Simon Sabiani, Paul Carbone, François Spirito

Simon Pierre Sabiani (14 May 1888 – 29 September 1956) was a French businessman and politician. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1928 to 1936.

Early life

Simon Pierre Sabiani was born in 1888 in Casamaccioli, Corsica, France. [1] [2] He had four brothers and one sister. He moved to Marseille. [2]

Sabiani served in World War I within the XVth corps of the 112th regiment of line infantry. He was nicknamed the " Pierre Bayard Corse" (Corsican war hero) and awarded the Legion of Honour and the Croix de Guerre for his service. [2]

Career

Sabiani joined the SFIO in 1919, and for a while the PCF. In 1923, he founded the "Parti d’action socialiste", (Socialist action party). In 1925, he was elected to the General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône. [3] Among his friends and "electoral agents" were the French mafiosi Paul Carbone, François Spirito, as well as Antoine Guerini, who had helped him get into the mayor´s office of Marseille in 1929. [4]

From 1928 to 1936, he served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing Bouches-du-Rhône, succeeded by François Billoux. [2] From 1929 to 1935 he served as an advisor to the Deputy Mayor of Marseille. [3] [5]

In 1936, he joined the Parti Populaire Français (PPF) led by Jacques Doriot, where he became a member of the political bureau, heading the local PPF section. On 4 July 1936 he addressed a right-wing faction during a demonstration in Aix-en-Provence which turned violent. [6] [7]

During World War II, he was the general secretary of the Marseille Bureau of the Légion des Volontaires Français, a collaborator of the Vichy regime. On 5 August 1942 he was arrested alongside Paul Carbone in Marseille over the possible murder of two women and the shooting of five more people during the Bastille Day march a month earlier. [8] Meanwhile, he acted as an informant to the Gestapo throughout the war. [9]

Shortly after the war, members of the French resistance put him on a list of collaborators they wanted to kill. [10] However, he went missing. [9] He exiled himself to Sigmaringen, in Southern Germany, then Italy, Argentina, and finally to Spain under the name of Pedro Multedo. [1] However, he returned to Corsica clandestinely to visit his mother when she turned almost one hundred years old.

Death

Sabiani died in 1956 in Barcelona, Spain. [1] [2] He was buried in the family chapel of Casamacciuli.

Works

  • Simon Sabiani, La Vérité sur l'attentat de Marseille, Grandes Conférences des Ambassadeurs, 1934
  • Simon Sabiani, Colère du peuple, Les Œuvres Françaises, 1936 (préface de Jacques Doriot)

Further reading

  • Jean-Baptiste Nicolaï, Simon Sabiani, un chef à Marseille, 1919-1944, Olivier Orban, 1991
  • Paul Jankowski, Communism and Collaboration. Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille (1919–1944), New Haven-Londres, Yale University Press, 1989.
  • Jean-Baptiste Emmanuelli, Et J'ai Cassé Mon Fusil, Robert Laffont

References

  1. ^ a b c "Simon Sabiani (1888-1956)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Simon, Pierre Sabiani". National Assembly. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
  3. ^ a b Marie-Helene Porri, De Mémé à Jean-Noël Guérini, Mon Petit Editeur, 2012, p. 15
  4. ^ Die Mafia in Frankreich Archived 2018-12-15 at the Wayback Machine. 7 February 2015, Prisma, retrieved 26 June 2017
  5. ^ Mary Dewhurst Lewis The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-1940, Stanford University Press, 2007, p. 96 [1]
  6. ^ "Six Hurt When French Factions Demonstrate". The Decatur Daily Review. Decatur, Illinois. July 5, 1936. p. 4. Retrieved November 27, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Six Frenchmen Hurt in Political Fights". The Pantagraph. Bloomington, Illinois. July 5, 1936. p. 13. Retrieved November 27, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Two Pro-Nazis Arrested In France". Santa Cruz Sentinel. August 5, 1942. p. 8. Retrieved November 27, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ a b Parris, John A. (June 18, 1944). "Laval Marked for Execution By French Underground Force". Oakland Tribune. Oakland, California. p. 3. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
  10. ^ Newman, Larry (August 28, 1944). "Traitors Are Being Seized At Marseille". New Castle News. New Castle, Pennsylvania. p. 12. Retrieved November 28, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
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