Jean-Pierre Cherid (November 20, 1940, in Algiers – March 19, 1984, in Biarritz, France[1]) was a far right French activist and later mercenary of Moroccan descent.
[2][3] After that, Cherid remained related to the members of the intelligence services belonging to the Spanish secret services and security forces that organized an illegal war against ETA in the French Basque Country, under different denominations (Antiterrorismo ETA, Batallón Vasco Español or AAA death squads) during Union of the Democratic Centre administrations.
[9] The change of administration in Spain in 1982 did not affect his collaboration with underground dirty war efforts against ETA and therefore with the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (GAL), the new denomination of the death squads that operated in France during the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party administration in Spain.
[10] In 2008, Cherid was accused of involvement in the 1976 disappearance of ETA activist Pertur, usually attributed to fellow members of the organization.
According to the testimony of an Italian neofascist, Cherid managed a house outside Barcelona where death squads tortured kidnapped people on behalf of the Spanish intelligence services.