Commander-in-chief, refused to postpone execution, and ordered his execution the next morning at 7:30. Alarmed by his conviction, Bonnier asked to speak to a police officer and Commissioner Garidacci responded. Bonnier revealed that Abbé Cordier was aware of his intentions and implicated Henri d'Astier. Garidacci kept this confession to himself, with the apparent intention of later blackmailing d'Astier. Giraud was elected that day by members of the Vichy Imperial Council, to replace Darlan. When d'Astier and others appealed to Giraud, he told them it was too late. Bonnier de la Chapelle was executed in Hussein-Dey, the square known as "the shot". His speedy trial and execution fueled theories about who may have been behind the assassination. Posthumous rehabilitation Bonnier was rehabilitated by a Chamber judgment revision of the Court of Appeals on Algiers on 21 December 1945, which ruled that the assassination had been "in the interest of liberation of France." In June 1950 he was repatriate to Sevres February 1951: official recognition by the Ministère des Anciens Combattants ‘Mort pour la France’ August 1953: posthumous award of Croix de Guerre and Médaille de la Résistance Sources Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943, New York: Henry Holt, 2002. Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years: 1940–1944, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Douglas Porch, The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. References 1922 births 1942 deaths People from Algiers French monarchists French Resistance members People executed by Vichy France Executed French people French assassins People convicted of murder by France French people convicted of murder Executed assassins People executed by France by firing squad Deaths by firearm in Algeria Overturned convictions in France Pieds-Noirs 1942 murders in France French people of colonial Algeria