Terrordåd paris 1986

Rue de Rennes bombing

terrorist bombing in Paris, France

Not to be confused with the Paris police station attack.

The Rue de Rennes bombing took place on 17 September , when a handmade bomb planted by Hezbollah militants detonated outside of the Le Point Headquarters Building and Tati Store, both located at Rue de Rennes. The attack killed seven people and injured a further The attack was organized by Fouad Saleh, who had carried out numerous bombings in Paris in the months prior.

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This is the last and deadliest of fourteen attacks claimed by the “Committee of Solidarity with Arab and Middle East Political Prisoners”, instigated by Fouad Ali Saleh on behalf of Lebanese Hezbollah with the aim of stopping the support provided by France to Iraq in the conflict between it and Iran and to obtain the releases of three terrorists detained in France: Anis Naccache (Iranian network), Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (Lebanese FARL network) and Varadjian Garbidjan (Armenian ASALA network)1. This period was called “black September” and ended definitively with the arrest of Fouad Ali Saleh on March 21, by police officers from the Directorate of Territorial Surveillanc

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    • For other uses, see February Paris bombing, Rivoli Beaubourg cinema bombing, and Paris police station attack.

    From to , a series of terrorist attacks in Paris, France were carried out by the Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA), a previously unknown group, demanding the release of three imprisoned international terrorists.[2] The CSPPA was believed to have been some combination of Palestinians, Armenian nationalists, and Lebanese Marxists, though it was later reported that the attacks were believed to have involved operatives from Hezbollah, sponsored by the Iranian state.[3] The CSPPA demanded the release of Anis Naccache, from the Iranian state network; Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, member of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (LARF); and Varadjian Garbidjan, member of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA).[4]

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    Fouad Saleh, a Tunisian convert to Shia Islam, was found in by the counter-terrorism agency Direction de la surveillance du territoire (DST) to have been the leader of the group of eighteen terrorists directed by Hezbollah from Beirut.[5][6] Du

    List of terrorist incidents in

    Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
    3 February Bombing0 8 Paris, FranceA bomb exploded in a shopping galleri at the Champs-Élysées, wounding eight people. The bombing was claimed by the Hezbollah-affiliated Committee for Solidarity With Arab and mittpunkt Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA).[1]CSPPA, Hezbollah–86 Paris attacks4 February Bombing0 4 Paris, FranceA bomb exploded in the basement record section of the Gibert Jeune bookstore on the Place Saint-Michel, tearing up the floor and setting the building ablaze. fyra people were wounded. The bombing was claimed bygd the Hezbollah-affiliated CSPPA.[2]CSPPA, Hezbollah–86 Paris attacks5 February Bombing0 9 Paris, Francea bomb exploded at a book and record shop of the Fnac chain in the Forum des Halles underground complex, wounding nine people.[2]CSPPA, Hezbollah–86 Paris attacks13 March Car bombing60Damascus, SyriaCar bombing. Pro-Iraqi militants were blamed. Pro-Iraqi militants (suspected) 17 March Bombing0 9 Paris, France A bomb exploded on the