A tsakiyar watan Nuwambar 1942, bayan yarjejeniyar armistice na Francois Darlan tare da
A lokacin mamayewar 'yan Allied na Arewacin Afirka, jami'in leken asirin Vichy Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie yayi kokarin inganta juyin mulkin masarauta. (D'Astier ya riga ya yi makirci tare da Allies don taimakawa mamayewa.) Abokan aikin D'Astier, Abbé Cordier da Master-Sergeant Sabatier (mai koyar da Faransanci a sansanin OSS-SOE a Algiers), a asirce sun kawo Henri daga Maroko zuwa gidan d'Astier a Algiers. Duk da haka, Darlan da Janar Eisenhower na Amurka sun yi watsi da ra'ayin. An kashe Darlan ne daga Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, wani dan kungiyar Orléanist na kungiyar Resistance ta Faransa, a ranar 24 ga Disamba, 1942.