Pierre Goldman

Pierre Goldman (; 22 June 1944 – 20 September 1979) was a French left-wing intellectual who was convicted of several robberies and mysteriously assassinated. It has been suspected that the Spanish death squads GAL were involved in his murder. His half-brother Jean-Jacques Goldman is a popular French singer.

Biography Pierre Goldman was born in Lyon in France on 22 June 1944, near the end of World War II. He was born to a Jewish family of Polish-Jewish descent; his father Alter Mojze Goldman and mother Janine Sochaczewska were active in the FTP-MOI Resistance movement. After the liberation of France, his parents separated, and his father, in concert with a group of former FTP-MOI members, kidnapped him. At the time, Alter said that he took Pierre so that he would not grow up in the country, Poland, that had seen the elimination of so many Jews, to which Pierre's mother was returning. Thereafter, he had only sporadic contact with his mother.

On 22 May 2012, a blog post from lemonde.fr identified the killer of Pierre Goldman as René Resciniti de Says. A former paratrooper for the French Armed Forces, Resciniti de Says was known as René l'élégant and died on 17 April 2012 at the age of 61. Goldman's assassin had previously been identified under the pseudonym “Gustavo” by documentarian Michel Despratx in 2010. Extreme right journalist Emmanuel Ratier, in the bimonthly newsletter Faits et Documents, claims the true identity of “Gustavo” to have been René Resciniti de Says. The blog post alleges that René Resciniti de Says was an associate of French monarchist group Action Française, as well as being one of Bob Denard's mercenaries.

Gustavo, the 2010 Michel Despratx documentary broadcast by Canal+, states Goldman was assassinated by a four-person commando squad which included an inspector of the Direction de la surveillance du territoire (DST) and a police officer of the Direction centrale des renseignements généraux (RG). Nevertheless, as pointed out by the blog post, “Gustavo”'s testimony and his identification as René Resciniti de Says remain to be corroborated.

Film The Goldman Case, released in 2023, is based on Goldman's 1976 retrial for murder.