Memorial Arnaud Fraiteur

On Thursday 24 June 2021, the memorial plaque for resistance fighter Arnaud Fraiteur was inaugurated on the bridge of the same name, which connects the VUB and ULB campuses with the neighborhood around the cemetery of Ixelles.
With the commemorative plaque, the Center d'Action Laïque (CAL) and its member organisations, in collaboration with Infrabel, the municipality of Ixelles, the ULB and the VUB, wanted to honor the memory of this young resistance fighter.

Arnaud Fraiteur was born in Ixelles on May 23, 1924. He had just started his engineering studies at the University of Liège when it had to close after the German invasion in May 1940. He continued his studies clandestinely at the ULB and joined the resistance. Under the pseudonym Max, he becomes a member of the Belgian Partisan army, better known as Partisans Armés.
On April 13, accompanied by two other resistance fighters (André Bertulot and Maurice Raskin), he shoots Paul Colin and his bodyguard in the bookshop under the office of "Le Nouveau Journal en Cassandre" on the Bergstraat in Brussels.
Journalist and art critic Paul Colin was a notorious collaborator and director of the daily newspaper "Le Nouveau Journal" and the weekly newspaper "Cassandre", French speaking mouthpieces of the occupying forces.
Fraiteur's companions are quickly arrested after the attack. Arnaud Fraiteur manages to go into hiding but is betrayed before he can escape to France.
The three resistance fighters are taken to Fort Breendonk where they are tortured and hanged on May 10, 1943. Arnaud Fraiteur was 19 years old.

Source : VUB Today

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• Text: Marie-Christine Vinck
• Photos: Marie-Christine Vinck