Series of attacks in France in 1995

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Since the series of attacks, many rubbish bins in Paris have been replaced by easily visible rubbish bags to prevent bomb attacks.

The series of attacks in Paris in 1995 is a series of at least eight attacks on trains of the Paris Métro and RER of the Islamist terror group GIA . Eight people died and another 200 were injured in a total of three bomb explosions.

Course of events

  • 1. Attack in Paris: On July 25, 1995, a gas cylinder filled with splinters exploded on a train on the RER line B in the Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame station in the center of Paris. Eight people were killed and more than a hundred injured, some of them life-threatening. The Algerian armed Islamic group GIA is committed to the attacks .
  • In August 1995, among other things, a bomb in the TGV high-speed train between Paris and Lyon and another explosive device in front of a Jewish school in the Lyon suburb of Villeurbanne were defused.
  • 2nd attack in Paris: August 17, 1995: Bomb attack near the Arc de Triomphe, 16 wounded.
  • 3rd attack in Paris: September 3, 1995: attack on a market in the 11th arrondissement, 3 injured.
  • On September 7, 1995, the GIA carried out an attack on a Jewish school near Lyon.
  • 4. Attack in Paris: On October 6, 1995, an explosive device detonated near the Maison Blanche metro station . 18 people were injured.
  • Khaled Kelkal's fingerprints were found on tape on the bomb in the TGV. On September 29, 1995, Kelkal, a member of the GIA, was arrested by officers from the National Gendarmerie in a wooded area near Maison-Blanche, near Lyon . Kelkal offered armed resistance and was shot.
  • 5. Attack in Paris: On October 17, 1995, a bomb exploded on the RER train in Paris between the Orsay and Saint-Michel stations. 30 passengers are injured.

consequences

The day after the bombing of the TGV high-speed train in August 1995, the number of passengers fell by around 30 percent.

Interior Minister Jean-Louis Debre put in place an emergency plan after the attack on September 7th. 20,000 police officers, 2,500 soldiers and 9,000 customs officers were also used for surveillance at airports, train stations, borders, power plants and museums. Around 7,000 rubbish bins were screwed on or removed in Paris.

In 2006, the Algerian Rachid Ramda was sentenced to ten years in prison in France for supporting terrorist attacks.

Possible connections to other attacks

On October 31, 1995, 14 days after the third attack in Paris, a small group of militant Islamists was arrested in Lille in northern France. Police said they were caught preparing for a bomb attack on a weekly market.

Another attack in December 1996

This attack took place on December 3, 1996. Even before a train on the RER line B departed from Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle station, a 14 kg gas cylinder hidden in a blue sack had been deposited on the train. This later exploded in Port-Royal train station. 4 people were killed; 170 people were injured. It is believed that the attack was also carried out by the GIA.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c France: City in fear . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1995, pp. 174 ( Online - Oct. 23, 1995 ).
  2. ↑ a b http://de.euronews.com/2006/03/29/islamist-wegen-finanzierung-der-anschlaege-auf-pariser-metro-verendung/
  3. ^ FAZ of February 18, 2003, accessed on January 23, 2016
  4. ↑ le parisien of December 2, 2006 (French), accessed on January 21, 2014