PORTRAIT – This guitarist, son of Arab immigrants, who for years has been playing in Catalan with Gypsies, is one of the founders of the Gipsy Kings. He has just published his memoirs.
It was one of those peaceful summer evenings when the sun never sets over Norway. Hidden in Lillehammer above Oslo, Mossad killers are ready. Ahmed Bouchikhi, 30, returns from the cinema with Toril, his pregnant wife. Thirteen bullets cut him down. It was fifty-one years ago. With Operation Wrath of God, Golda Meir ordered the liquidation of the Black September group, responsible for the hostage-taking of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Alas, the Mossad commando confused Ali Hassan Salameh, leader of the terrorists, with Chico's big brother, based in Norway. « My family found themselves in a story that was completely beyond them », says Chico, whose real name is Jahloul Bouchikhi. A tragedy that remains « a gaping wound ». His success with Jobi Jobi is not as light as it looks.
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