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Serge de Beketch


Serge André Yourevitch Verebrussoff de Beketch (born 12 December 1946, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France, died 6 October 2007 Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French journalist, story writer for cartoons and writer linked to the extreme-right. He was also the co-founder of Radio Courtoisie, where he directed a Wednesday evening broadcast up until his death, and was a founder and host of the Libre Journal de la France courtoise.

De Beketch was of Russian origin and from a Tatar lineage. His maternal grandfather was a colonel in the French army; his paternal grandfather was aide-de-camp to General Anton Denikin, chief of the White Armies during the Russian Civil War. De Beketch's father, a non-commissioned officer in the French foreign legion was killed in action at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, achieving Mort pour la France status. After his schooling as an enfant de troupe (military child), de Beketch performed several jobs, including manual labour and working in a bookstore. In 1966 he started doing freelance reporting for the entertainment page of the weekly newspaper Minute. In 1967, he joined the Israeli Defence Force at the time of the Six-Day War., but "the fighting went so quickly that he didn't even have time to put on his uniform".


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