Explanation From Meme-Maker:

Félix-Roland Moumié was a Cameroonian doctor trained in Dakar who joined the Union des populations du Cameroun (UPC) in 1948 after meeting Ruben Um Nyobè. Becoming UPC president in 1952, he advocated immediate independence and Cameroon’s reunification against French trusteeship, organizing rallies and anticolonial fundraisers despite crackdowns. After the UPC ban in 1955 (May massacres, 1,000+ dead), he fled to British Cameroon, then Guinea, Ghana, and Egypt, directing armed struggle from exile.

In 1960, in Geneva, Félix Moumié contacts Chinese diplomats, buys arms, and prints anticolonial brochures, living lavishly without much suspicion. SDECE spy William Bechtel (“Grand Bill”), sent on orders from Michel Debré and Jacques Foccart, poses as a journalist and invites him to Le Plat-d’Argent restaurant with an accomplice. He poisons his Ricard pastis, but when Félix barely touches it, fearing he’d skip one drink, William slips thallium into a wine glass brought by the waiter too. Bon vivant Moumié downs both glasses at meal’s end. Hours later, stomach pains hit; a maid finds him collapsed in his hotel room. Rushed to hospital, he dies after two weeks’ agony on November 3.

Swiss police track Bechtel but Paris exfiltrates him. Arrested in 1975 in the Netherlands, he’s extradited then released in 1980 for lack of proof.