1985 in France

Events

January 9th: the government adopts the Relative law with the development and the protection of the mountain (known as “law Montagne”)
January 21st: assassination of the general Rene Audran by Direct action.
January 25th: launching of the Plane data processing for all.

Business Grégory: Bernard Laroche is killed of a rifle shot by Jean-Marie Villemin who charges the assassination of her Grégory son to him.
Suicide of Sister Smile.

April 4th: Resignation of Michel Rocard of the government, in connection with the adoption of the poll proportional for the legislative elections (Official press release published in the night from April 3rd to 4th).

June 26th: Adoption of the poll proportional departmental for the legislative elections.

July 10th: Explosion of Rainbow Warrior in the port of Auckland in New Zealand by the French secret services: 1 dead.
July 12th: Arrest of two French secret agents, the false husband Turenge, by the New Zealand police force.
July 31st: The French government authorizes the creation of private channels of television.

September 20th: Resignation of the Minister for Defense Charles Hernu and the admiral Pierre Lacoste blamed in the Business of Rainbow Warrior.
September 23rd: Inauguration of the Pont-Neuf packed by Christo in a film of ocher polyester yellow of a surface of 40.876 m2 whose realization required 3.076 meters of cord and 12 tons steel chains. This installation symbolized for Bulgarian the Christo Javacheff its own passage of the communist world on the free world and its arrival in Paris, its first place of real artistic creation.

November 22nd: The French agents judged for in the Business of Rainbow Warrior, Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur are condemned to ten years of prison for " Homicide involontaire".

December 4th: the visit of the general Jaruzelski causes the “disorder” of the Prime Minister Laurent Fabius.
December 19th: Courteous Georges, judged for a Holdup, takes as an hostage the Court of Assizes of Nantes during 34 hours. This event is followed by all the media, of which a team of FR3 which entered the law courts. The RAID intervenes for its first great mission. The Prise of hostage ends in the arrest of Courteous. There was no victim.
December 21st: Opening by Coluche of the “Resto du coeur”.

10% unemployed in France. The incidence of poverty is of 4,5% in the middle of the Années 1980.

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