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Plaque commémorative
Plaque in homage to Frédéric Dutrion and Philibert Gaillard. Gaillard, an activist in the SFIO (French Section of the Workers' International, the former French member of the Socialist International), met in his office at 85 avenue de Saxe in Lyon) or at his and his wife's home with people who had parachuted into France, produced false ID papers, sent people who were wanted to England, Spain or Algeria, and distributed funds from England for the needs of the Organization. He was turned in by an informer and arrested at his office by the Gestapo on March 29, 1944. He was interned at Montluc prison, and taken on June 9, 1944 to Communay to... Read more
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Plaque in homage to Frédéric Dutrion and Philibert Gaillard. Gaillard, an activist in the SFIO (French Section of the Workers' International, the former French member of the Socialist International), met in his office at 85 avenue de Saxe in Lyon) or at his and his wife's home with people who had parachuted into France, produced false ID papers, sent people who were wanted to England, Spain or Algeria, and distributed funds from England for the needs of the Organization. He was turned in by an informer and arrested at his office by the Gestapo on March 29, 1944. He was interned at Montluc prison, and taken on June 9, 1944 to Communay to be executed by firing squad.
Dutrion, also an SFIO activist, was a member of the Socialist Action Committee. He concealed the Committee's clandestine newspaper le Populaire in his shop in the avenue de Saxe at the corner of the rue Dunoir. He was arrested and held at the transit camp at Compiègne-Royallieu, and died on the train to deportation.
Source: Bruno Permezel, Résistants à Lyon, Villeurbanne et aux alentours : 2824 engagements, BGA Permezel, 2003.