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Sep 10, 2007 · 1977: France stages its last execution using the guillotine. A Tunisian immigrant living in Marseilles, Hamida Djandoubi, was executed for the torture-slaying of his girlfriend. He had killed...
Events from the year 1977 in France . Incumbents. President: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Prime Minister: Raymond Barre. Events. 13 March – Municipal Elections held. 20 March – Municipal Elections held. 27 June – Djibouti receives its independence from France.
Nov 9, 2017 · On September 10, 1977, 40 years ago this week, France conducted its last execution. Four years later capital punishment was abolished, thus ending the reign of the guillotine. The man who was...
Hamida Djandoubi (Arabic: حميدة جندوبي, romanized: Ḥamīda Jandūbī; 22 September 1949 – 10 September 1977) was a Tunisian convicted murderer sentenced to death in France. He moved to Marseille in 1968, and six years later he kidnapped, tortured, and murdered 22-year-old Élisabeth Bousquet.
Mar 3, 2010 · 1977. The guillotine falls silent. At Baumetes Prison in Marseille, France, Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder, becomes the last person executed by guillotine.
May 10, 2022 · Highlight History. 231K subscribers. Subscribed. 7.4K. 256K views 2 years ago. On the 10th of September 1977, France's famous guillotine would end the life of it's last prisoner, bringing an...
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Nov 17, 2017 · Updated February 27, 2024. On Sept. 10, 1977, Tunisian immigrant Hamida Djandoubi became the last victim of a guillotine execution in French history — 38 years after Eugen Weidmann's riotous beheading made him the final guillotine victim killed in public.
