Editing Jacques Vergès (section)

===Missing years===
[[File:Jacques Vergès au théâtre de la Madeleine à Paris.jpg|thumb|Jacques Vergès at [[théâtre de la Madeleine]], in Paris, 2008.]]
From 24 February 1970 to 1978, Vergès disappeared from public view without explanation. He refused to comment about those years, remarking in an interview with ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' that "It's highly amusing that no one, in our modern police state, can figure out where I was for almost ten years."<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,591943-2,00.html |title=Interview with Notorious Lawyer Jacques Vergès: 'I Shift Events to Outside the Courtroom' |publisher=Spiegel.de |date=21 November 2008 |access-date=2016-09-30 }}</ref> Vergès was last seen at an anti-colonial rally in Paris. He left his wife, Djamila, and cut off all his ties with his friends and family. Many people wondered if he had been killed, kidnapped, become a spy, or had gone into hiding.<ref name="movie_quote_5">Event occurs at 00:50:29 – {{cite video
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}}"He was last seen on 24 February 1970, at an anti-colonial rally in Paris. He made a speech and vanished. After three months, Djamila Bouhired and his friends, were sure he was dead."</ref> His whereabouts during these years have remained a mystery. Many of his close associates of the time assume that he was in Cambodia with the [[Khmer Rouge]], a rumour [[Pol Pot]] (Brother #1), [[Nuon Chea]] (Brother #2) and [[Ieng Sary]] (Brother #3)<ref name="movie_quote_3">Event occurs at 00:52:56 – {{cite video
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 |quote = ''The Brilliant Bastard'' In that book are two passages I remember. It says ... that Jacques Vergès could have been in Cambodia. I remember that Pol Pot wrote in the margin: No. }}</ref> have denied. There are claims that Vergès was spotted in Paris by [[Mohamed Boudia]], a contact from Algerian War and an old Communist associate, [[Jiří Pelikán (politician)|Jiří Pelikán]]. He is also alleged to have been in Switzerland at the house of François Genoud according to Ahmed Huber. He was also thought to be in several Arab countries in the company of [[Ali Hassan Salameh]] and Palestinian militant groups according to the Lebanese attorney [[Karim Pakradouni]], and exiled Algerian politician Bachir Boumaza.<ref name="movie_quote_4">Event occurs at 00:55:44 – {{cite video
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 |quote = It was in May 1973, ... several politicians ... were meeting at Arafat's HQ. ... Arafat suddenly looked at [Abou Hassan Salameh PLO security chief] and asked: "Who is this Vergès? What is he?" Abou Hassan Salameh answered literally: "He's an important lawyer who defends the Palestinian cause." Arafat smiled and said: "Keep working with him." My codename was "Pascal". And Vergès? "Mansour".}}</ref>