Memorial Henri Charles Bouillon

On July 8, 1944, the pharmacist Edouard Degrelle was murdered in the Ardennes town of Bouillon. He was a brother of the infamous collaborator Léon Degrelle and a member of his Rex movement, although he was not politically active.
He was suspected of sympathizing with the Germans and of regularly collaborating with the Gestapo. He was shot dead in his pharmacy by unknown people (presumably members of the Secret Army).
The German authorities responded harshly.
46 local citizens were immediately arrested who may have had ties to the resistance.
The curfew was imposed and the residents of Bouillon had to hand in their bicycles and radios.

However, this was not enough for Léon Degrelle's supporters and an impressive series of reprisal attacks followed.
A day after the attack on Edouard, a three-man Rexist commando drove to Bouillon.
They stopped in front of another pharmacy. The driver asked the pharmacist Henri Charles to come out for an injured person. When he did so, a man shot him dead in cold blood.
The perpetrators were briefly arrested by the German police, but released the next day.
They allegedly planned to kill other opponents of Degrelle, but did not find them. One of them was the dean of Bouillon, who allegedly refused communion to Degrelle during a mass.

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