Rue Fred Scamaroni

Godefroy Scamaroni, known as Fred Scamaroni, born in Ajaccio on October 24, 1914, and died in the citadel of that city on March 19, 1943, was a senior French civil servant, a member of the Free French Forces from 1940 onwards, a hero and a martyr of the Résistance. assigned to the staff of the General de Gaulle, he carried out several missions for the Free French. Returning to Ajaccio to lead an insurrection project, he was arrested on the night of March 18-19, 1943 by the OVRA, the fascist political police. After having been tortured, he killed himself in his cell in order not to reveal anything to the Italians. He wrote on the wall with his blood before painting himself: "I didn't talké. Long live de Gaulle! Vive la France!".