De Gaulle assassination plot leader executed at dawn archive, 1963 | Charles de Gaulle
12 March 1963: Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry attempted to assassinate General De Gaulle following the presidents decision to accept Algerian independence from France Paris, March 10 Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, the leader of the conspiracy against President de Gaulle on August 22, was executed by a firing squad at 6 42 this morning at Fort dIvry, where military executions