# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eugene-de-kock
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:04:36.184Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eugene-de-kock"
name: "Eugene de Kock"
slug: "eugene-de-kock"
description: "Eugene Alexander de Kock is a former South African Police colonel, torturer, and assassin, active under the apartheid government. Nicknamed \"Prime Evil\" by the press, De Kock was the commanding officer of C10, a counterinsurgency unit of the SAP that kidnapped, tortured, and murdered numerous accused terrorists from the 1980s to the early 1990s. C10's victims included members of the African National Congress."
tagline: "South African police officer, convicted for several political murders as head of the secret police unit C10 (Vlakplaas) during Apartheid, today a free man after serving a prison sentence"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jann_Turner_with_Eugene_de_Kock%2C_TRC_Headquarters_in1997.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1949-01-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.33
  momentum:             15
  historical:           12.40663466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  250
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "尤金·德考克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eugene de Kock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يوجين دي كوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يوجين دى كوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_de_Kock"
    title: "Eugene de Kock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_de_Kock"
    title: "Eugene de Kock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_De_Kock"
    title: "Eugene De Kock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_de_Kock"
    title: "Eugene de Kock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_de_Kock"
    title: "Eugene de Kock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_de_Kock"
    title: "Eugene de Kock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%92'%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%93%D7%94_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A7"
    title: "יוג'ין דה קוק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eugene de Kock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eugene de Kock"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_de_Kock"
    title: "Eugene de Kock"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%88%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%88%DA%A9"
    title: "یوجین ڈی کوک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump