Michel Seurat was a sociologist and researcher at the CNRS, born 14 August 1947 in Tunisia and died in Beirut in 1986.
Unlike his cellmate Jean-Paul Kauffmann, also kidnapped the same day, he was not released.
On 5 March 1986 Islamic Jihad stated that it had executed Seurat; however, his fellow hostages revealed on their release that Seurat had died of hepatitis.
[1][2][3] In October 2005, the remains of Michel Seurat were found in the southern suburbs of Beirut by construction workers, and were formally identified after DNA testing.
[4] His wife is the Syrian novelist Marie Seurat.