Police raids in France
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) PARIS, March 12.
The French police have launched a drive against left-and-right wing extremist groups in the Paris area after a score of bomb attacks which claimed their first victim last week-end.
He was a young soldier who died in a bomb blast at the Gare De L’est station on Sunday in one of a wave of explosions that have hit targets ranging from military depots to newspaper offices since the beginning of the year.
Considerable damage has been caused by the explosions, for which extremist groups as diverse as the Brittany Liberation Front, sympathisers of the West German Baader-Mein-hoff gang and a Right-wing organisation of former Algerian settlers have claimed responsibility. But several of the dynamite attacks have gone unclaimed. Although the explosions have occurred throughout ■France, police sources said the recent drive was concentrated in the Paris area. By I noon a dozen people had {been detained for questionling.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33791, 13 March 1975, Page 17
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