Anti-Muslim bombings in Paris, Cannes and Nice

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The Anti-Muslim bombings in Paris, Cannes and Nice were a series of 3 terror bombings carried by anti-Muslim elements in French cities in the 1970s and 1980s.

The first attack happened in the early hours of October 4, 1972, when a bomb exploded in the Librairie Palestine, a PLO bookstore in Paris established in 1970.[1] The other two attacks, in 1988, targeted Sonacotra hostels in Cannes and near Nice that were frequented by North African immigrants.[2] In total one person was killed (in the Nice hostel bombing) and 16 were injured.

On December 19, 1988, 2 firebombs exploded in a hostel for immigrant workers form North Africa in Cagnes-sur-Mer, a town located about 7 miles from Nice, injuring 12 and killing 1. This followed the bombing of a similar hostel in Cannes on May 9 that injured 2.[3][4] Although police spokesmen reported that most of the residents in the building in Cagnes-sur-Mer were Tunisian, the lone fatality was George Iordachescu, a Romanian exile.[5]

False flag

The bombers posed as an extremist Zionist group, calling themselves the Masada Action and Defense Movement (French: Mouvement d'Action et Défense Masada), and leaving anti-Islam leaflets bearing Stars of David at the scene of one of the 1988 bombings.[2] The Zionist moniker was a false flag – in 1989, 18 members of the neo-Nazi French and European Nationalist Party were arrested for the bombings,[6] which had been intended to provoke tensions between Arabs and Jews in France.[2][7]

References

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  6. ↑ European Parliament, Committee of Inquiry on Racism and Xenophobia- Report on the Findings of the Inquiry, 1991, pp. 29–30
  7. ↑ Seth G. Jones and Martin C. Libicki. 2008. How Terrorist Groups End. RAND Corporation https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG741-1.html


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