4 men standing with their backs to a wall: the Fusillés lillois monument immortalizes the leading members of the Jacquet Committee moments before they were executed in the ditches of the Lille citadel.
Like Léon Trulin lying at their feet, Eugène Jacquet, Georges Maertens, Ernest Deceuninck and Sylvère Verhulst ran a network in occupied Lille designed to pass on information about the German army to the Allies.
Arrested, they were sentenced to death and shot on September 22, 1915.
Like Léon Trulin lying at their feet, Eugène Jacquet, Georges Maertens, Ernest Deceuninck and Sylvère Verhulst ran a network in occupied Lille designed to pass on information about the German army to the Allies.
Arrested, they were sentenced to death and shot on September 22, 1915.
