- Title: FRANCE: POLICE DEFUSE BOMB OUTSIDE METRO STATION
- Date: 4th September 1995
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (SEPTEMBER 4, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/SV POLICE DIRECTING TRAFFIC AT SCENE/ RIOT POLICE DEPLOYING/ POLICE VAN DRIVING FAST DOWN STREET (3 SHOTS) 0.12 2. SLV PLACE CHARLES VALLIN SIGN 0.17 3. GV/SV POLICE NEAR BAG CONTAINING BOMB (4 SHOTS) 0.54 4. GV/SLV POLICE AND SECURITY AT SCENE/ CROWDS WATCHING (3 SHO
- Embargoed: 19th September 1995 13:00
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- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
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- Country: France
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- Story Text: Police defused a powerful gas canister bomb outside a Paris metro station on Monday (September 4) - the fifth planted in France in the last 40 days by suspected Algerian Moslem fundamentalists.
The 25 kg (55 lb) device was dismantled after a cleaner found it in a public toilet.
Three of the bombs planted recently exploded, killing seven people and wounding 101.
The latest bomb, concealed on a busy square near the Convention underground train station in the 15th arrondissement (district), was planted just 50 metres (160 ft) from a school on the day that hundreds of thousands of children returned to class amid tight security after the summer holidays.
The discovery was made barely 24 hours after a pressure-cooker bomb misfired in a crowded open-air Paris market, wounding four people.A massacre was avoided only because most of the explosive failed to ignite.
Monday's attempted bombing coincided with the opening of a trial in Brussels of 13 suspected members of Algeria's most militant fundamentalist group, the Islamic Armed Group (GIA), which police believe is behind the wave of attacks in France.
All the blasts and unsuccessful attempts have occurred in crowded areas and the devices have been packed with nails and bolts to increase the chances of deaths and maimings.
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