Klaus Croissant

Klaus Croissant (1931-2002) was a lawyer of the Red Army Fraction, shown by the Rebmann prosecutor “to have organized his cabinet the operational reserve of West German terrorism”. A campaign against his imprisonment, in which in particular Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault took part, was organized in his favour. He had taken refuge in France on July 10, 1977, before being stopped in Paris on September 30. In spite of sharp protests and demonstrations in Germany, France and Italy, the court of criminal appeal of the Court of Appeal of Paris decides in favour of the extradition towards FRG (the Federal Republic of Germany) on November 16, 1977. Croissant is extradited the following day. In a platform published in Le Monde on November 2, 1977, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari wrote: “Three things worry us immediately: the possibility that many German men of the left in an organized system of denouncement, see their life becoming intolerable in Germany, and are forced to leave their country. Conversely, the possibility that Croissant is delivered, returned to Germany where he risks the worst [Andreas Baader and its comrades had been found died in their cell in not elucidated circumstances on October 18, 1977], or, simply expelled in a country of “choice” which would not accept him. Lastly, the prospect which whole Europe passes under this type of control claimed by Germany.” [1] References [to modify] ↑ Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, the worst means of making Europe, in Le Monde, November 2, 1977, p.6. Included in Two modes of insane (Midnight, 2003, pp.134-137)