On May 21, 1968, the interior ministry ordered the expulsion of Danny “the Red” Cohn-Bendit from the France for “disturbing the peace.” On May 26th, he was escorted by police across the French-German border. For the next 10 years, Cohn-Bendit was considered persona non grata in France.
Cohn-Bendit was born in Montauban, France, to German Jewish parents who had fled Nazism in 1933. He spent his childhood in Montauban. He moved to Germany in 1958. Being officially stateless at birth, when he reached the age of 14 he chose German citizenship.
He returned to France in 1966 to study sociology at the University of Paris's Faculty in Nanterre. Cohn-Bendit was a member of anarchist and leftist groups and was a visible and vocal leader of the Events of May 1968.
Sources:
Expelled leader of May 1968 uprising granted French citizenship, France24 (25 May, 2015)
Wikipedia
Daniel Cohn-Bendit : Student Leader in Paris, 1968 and Federalist Advocate in the European Union
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