Editing Jacques Vergès (section)

===Algerian independence movement===
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After returning to France, Vergès became a lawyer and quickly gained fame for his willingness to take controversial cases. During the struggle in [[Algiers]] he defended many accused of terrorism by the French government. He was a supporter of the Algerian armed independence struggle against France, comparing it to French armed resistance to the Nazi German occupation in the 1940s.
Vergès became a nationally known figure following his defence of the anti-French Algerian guerrilla [[Djamila Bouhired]] on terrorism charges: she was convicted of blowing up a café and killing eleven people inside it.<ref name="nytimes_2007"/> This is where he pioneered the [[rupture strategy]], in which he accused the prosecution of the same offenses as the defendants.<ref name="rfi_2008">{{cite web |date = 2 November 2008 |url = http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/107/article_2030.asp |title = The Jackal's defender has his own one-man show |publisher = [[Radio France Internationale]] |access-date = 9 November 2008 |last = MARCO CHOWN OVED |archive-date = 21 September 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130921064233/http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/107/article_2030.asp |url-status = dead }}</ref> She was sentenced to death but pardoned and freed following public pressure brought on by Vergès' efforts. After some years she married Vergès, who had by then converted to Islam.<ref name="alshindagah">{{cite web |year=2007 |url = http://www.alshindagah.com/novdec03/womanofdistinction.htm|title = Women of Distinction: Djamila Bouhired The Symbol of National Liberation|publisher = pub| access-date = 12 April 2008 | last=Ma'n Abul Husn }}</ref> In an effort to limit Vergès' success at defending Algerian clients, he was sentenced to two months in jail in 1960 and temporarily lost his licence to officially practice law for anti-state activities.<ref name="fpri">{{cite web|date = 14 April 2004|url = http://www.fpri.org/enotes/20040414.americawar.radu.circusverges.html|title = Saddam Circus Is Coming to Town: the Strange Story of Jacques Vergès|publisher = Foreign Policy Research Institute|access-date = 14 August 2008|last = Michael Radu|quote = At a time when France was at war, Vergès openly supported and defended terrorists and their French accomplices— that is, traitors. He was jailed for this for two months in 1960 and temporarily disbarred.|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080813084423/http://www.fpri.org//enotes/20040414.americawar.radu.circusverges.html|archive-date = 13 August 2008}}</ref> After [[Algeria]] gained its independence in 1962, Vergès obtained Algerian citizenship, going by the name of Mansour.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/jacques-verges-l-homme-aux-mille-vies-est-mort-16-08-2013-1714482_23.php|title=Jacques Vergès, l'homme aux mille vies|author=Airdj, Jamila|newspaper=Le Point|date=16 August 2013|access-date=16 August 2013|language=fr}}</ref> During the [[Algerian War]] he had become acquainted with [[Ahmed Ben Bella]] of the FLN and the first [[President of Algeria]], Swiss Nazi and financier for the FLN, [[François Genoud]], as well as [[Ahmed Huber]], a Swiss [[Religious conversion|Muslim-convert]] and Nazi who covered the war as a journalist.<ref>{{Citation |last=Schroeder |first=Barbet |title=L'avocat de la terreur |date=2007-06-06 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032854/ |type=Documentary, Biography, History |publisher=La Sofica Uni Etoile 3, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) |access-date=2022-12-15}}</ref>