Georges Figon (died, on January 17, 1966) was a freelance barbouze (French crook)[1] that arranged the meeting with Mehdi Ben Barka in the Brasserie Lipp. Later he told L'express[2] that he had seen who killed Barka. He accused General Oufkir whom he saw torturing Barka. Before the second trial Figon was found dead on January 17, 1966, in his apartment, according to official records by suicide. But there were some loose ends and suicide was the easiest way to explain what happened. In the book of Henrik Kruger, the great heroin coup, the author tells that the one who shot and thus far killed Figon, was Christian David.
His involvement in the kidnapping of Mehdi Ben Barka is the plot of the movie J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka (2005)