April 22, 1902 - Henri Lafont
A career criminal who found in the Nazi occupation of France an opportunity to institutionalize his methods, Lafont transformed what began as a loose network of underworld contacts into the Carlingue — a French auxiliary to the German security services that carried out torture, extortion, denunciation, and murder from its headquarters on the rue Lauriston in Paris. What distinguished his operation was its hybrid nature: officially sanctioned by German authority, yet run along the lines of organized crime, with personal enrichment and settling of scores operating alongside ideological collaboration. The scale of suffering inflicted on French civilians, Jews, and Resistance members placed him among the most consequential collaborators of the occupation.
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Henri Lafont (born Henri Chamberlin, 22 April 1902 – 26 December 1944) was an underworld figure who headed the Carlingue, French auxiliaries for the German security services, during the German occupation of France in World War II.
He was executed by firing squad on 26 December 1944 alongside corrupt policeman Pierre Bonny and footballer-turned-criminal Alexandre Villaplane.
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