Simon Sabiani

Simon Pierre Sabiani (14 May 1888 – 29 September 1956) was a French businessman and politician. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1928 to 1936.

Early life Simon Pierre Sabiani was born in 1888 in Casamaccioli, Corsica, France. He had four brothers and one sister. He moved to Marseille.

From 1928 to 1936, he served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing Bouches-du-Rhône, succeeded by François Billoux.

In 1936, he joined the Parti Populaire Français (PPF) led by Jacques Doriot, where he became a member of the political bureau, heading the local PPF section. On 4 July 1936 he addressed a right-wing faction during a demonstration in Aix-en-Provence which turned violent.

During World War II, he was the general secretary of the Marseille Bureau of the Légion des Volontaires Français, a collaborator of the Vichy regime. On 5 August 1942 he was arrested alongside Paul Carbone in Marseille over the possible murder of two women and the shooting of five more people during the Bastille Day march a month earlier. Meanwhile, he acted as an informant to the Gestapo throughout the war.

Shortly after the war, members of the French resistance put him on a list of collaborators they wanted to kill. However, he went missing. He exiled himself to Sigmaringen, in Southern Germany, then Italy, Argentina, and finally to Spain under the name of Pedro Multedo. However, he returned to Corsica clandestinely to visit his mother when she turned almost one hundred years old.

Death Sabiani died in 1956 in Barcelona, Spain. He was buried in the family chapel of Casamacciuli.

Works Simon Sabiani, La Vérité sur l'attentat de Marseille, Grandes Conférences des Ambassadeurs, 1934 Simon Sabiani, Colère du peuple, Les Œuvres Françaises, 1936 (préface de Jacques Doriot)