Brooklyn Eagle (January 13, 1943)
Quiz important figures in Darlan murder
Algiers, Algeria (UP) –
A French military board of inquiry questioned today a second batch of prisoners – some important figures – suspected of complicity in the assassination of Adm. Jean François Darlan.
A spokesman, who announced last night a “number of additional arrests,” said the suspects would be court-martialed, if the board decides they were involved.
Darlan’s assassin, a young Frenchman who has never been officially identified, was executed the day of Darlan’s funeral. The spokesman said “some Algiers personalities” were arrested:
…for questioning, because inquiry sowed that the killer had some accomplices.