PORTRAIT – One of the founders of the Gipsy Kings, this guitarist, the son of Arab immigrants, has been playing in Catalan with Gypsies for years. He has just published his memoirs.
It was one of those peaceful summer evenings when the sun never sets on the Norway. Hidden in Lillehammer above Oslo, the Mossad killers are ready. Ahmed Bouchikhi, 30, is returning from the cinema with Toril, his pregnant wife. Thirteen bullets mowed him down. That was fifty-one years ago. With Operation Wrath of God, Golda Meir ordered the liquidation of the Black September group, responsible for the hostage-taking of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Unfortunately, the Mossad commando mistook Ali Hassan Salameh, the terrorists’ leader, for Chico’s older brother, who lived in Norway. “ My family was caught up in a story that was completely beyond them. “, says Chico, whose real name is Jahloul Bouchikhi. A tragedy that remains “ a gaping wound “. His success with Djobi Djoba is not as light as it looks.