Shooting of the street of the Rose trees

The Fusillade of the street of the Rose trees is a Attentat, most probably anti-semite, perpetrated the August 9th 1982 with 13:10 against the restaurant Goldenberg, 7 Rue of the Rose trees in the district from the Marsh in Paris. Assessment: six died and twenty-two wounded.

The attack

It is per hour of the pause lunch, on Monday, August 9, 1982, that a group of five armed and hooded men make irruption in the restaurant of OJ Goldenberg, in full Marsh, and launch a grenade.

At this rush hour, about fifty customers are with table. A shooting bursts: it is a blood bath.

After the explosion, the commando crosses the district, called Pletzl (where a strong Jewish community saw), while drawing in crowd. In less than three minutes, the attack makes six dead and twenty-two wounded.

The images of the tragedy, symbol of terrorism anti-semite, are diffused and commented on everywhere in the world.

Presumed authors

No organization asserted the attack.

The police services and of information in charge of the investigation suspected the Fatah, Conseil revolutionary of Abou Nidal - a Palestinian group dissenting of PLO.

There is, in 2007, still no tangible proof. The instruction, carried out by the judge anti-terrorist Jean-Louis Bruguiere, tramples.

In margin of the attack

In reaction to the shooting, the president of the republic François Mitterrand announces that he entrusts the direction of the investigation to the antiterrorist cell of the Elysium. The cell is directed by the owner of GIGN, Christian Prouteau, and its assistant is the Captain Paul Barril.

The August 28th 1982, Barril challenges the supposed layers of the bomb of the street of the Rose trees: Irish nationalists. It is the beginning of the business of the Irishmen of Vincennes - in which Paul Barril is suspected of having brought itself the compromising incriminating evidences, weapons, explosives and documents.

Anecdote

The impact of the balls is always visible on the front.

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