Cheikh Raymond was assassinated on 22 June 1961 by a bullet in the neck, by arabo-islamist extremists while he was shopping in Constantine's Souk El Asser (la place Négrier) during the Algerian War of Independence.
Cheikh Raymond was assassinated on 22 June 1961 by a bullet in the neck. The perpetrators were militants of the Algeria's National Liberation Front (Front de libération national-FLN) while Raymond was shopping with his daughter Viviane in Constantine's Souk El Asser (la place Négrier) during the Algerian War of Independence.