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La main Rouge, The Red Hand, was a terrorist organization operated by the foreign Department of the French intelligence service Directorate-General for External Security (Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure, DGSE) in the 1950s, which pursued the goal to eliminate the supporters of Algerian independence and the leading members of the front de libération nationale (FLN) during the Algerian War.

Also in the Federal Republic of Germany, several explosives attacks were assigned to the Red Hand, as for example against the arms dealer Otto Schlüter on September 26, 1956, and on June 3, 1957 and Georg Puchert (alias Captain Morris) on March 3, 1959. This could ultimately never be clarified.

On November 27, 1959, the then thirty years old Christian Durieux gave an interview in which he claimed the Saheb, Pandit and the attacks on October 1, 1958, in the port of Hamburg included cargo ship Atlas and also on the Algerian exiled Amédiane AIT Alcene on behalf of the red hand committed to have the daily mail newspaper.

In particular the apparent inaction of the French authorities was seen abroad as a note of the French Government that they have caused the aggressive crackdown on supporters of the FLN.