In the shadows behind Ortiz there now emerged a new and more effectual figure: Jean-Jacques Susini. Aged only twenty-five in 1959, Susini, who was of Corsican origin, had missed the great moments of both February 1956 and May 1958, when Ortiz and Lagaillarde had made their names with the mob, because he was still studying medicine in France. In contrast to his father, a Communist worker on the Algerian railways with pro-F.L.N. sympathies, young Jean-Jacques was as far to the Right as his father was to the Left.

XREF: Resembles the common pattern of second-generation extremists rejecting their parents' ideology — parallels with other such biographical inversions in political history.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1066