Attack in the Port-Royal train station in Paris
The attack in the Paris Port-Royal train station was a bomb attack in which a bomb exploded on December 3, 1996 at around 6:02 p.m. - in the middle of rush hour traffic - in a train on the RER B light rail line at Port-Royal train station in the south of Paris . Four people were killed and 170 injured in the terrorist attack. The act was presumably carried out by the terrorist network Groupe Islamique Armé (GIA).
prehistory
As early as 1995 there had been several attacks in Paris , in which a total of 8 people were killed and over 200 others injured. The line B of the Paris RER was on July 25, 1995 Target of a fatal stop in the station Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame . On October 17, 1995, a bomb exploded on a train on the RER line C between the stations of Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame and Musée d'Orsay .
procedure
Before a train on the RER line B departed from the Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV station , a 14 kg gas cylinder, which was hidden in a sports bag, filled with nails and explosives and provided with a time fuse, had been deposited on the train. This later exploded in the southern Parisian city center in the Port-Royal train station in the 5th arrondissement . Two people died instantly, and two others later died from their injuries. 170 people were injured.
After the attack
The perpetrators could not be identified and no one confessed to the crime. It is believed that the attack was also carried out by the GIA, which had carried out several similar attacks in Paris the year before.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Julien Heyligen: Dix ans après, l'attentat du RER Reste un mystère. In: leparisien.fr . December 4, 2006, accessed November 17, 2017 (French).
- ^ A b Louise Colcombet: Port-Royal: l'attentat impuni. In: leparisien.fr . December 2, 2016, accessed November 17, 2017 (French).