Cheikh Raymond was assassinated on 22 June 1961 by a bullet in the neck, by FLN Algerian nationalists, while he was shopping in Constantine's Souk El Asser (place Négrier) during the Algerian War of Independence due to his opposition to the independence of Algeria from France. Some believe that his death had an impact on the decision to emigrate to France for a great number of the Jewish Algerians, on the eve of Algerian independence.