FRANCE: SCENE FOLLOWING ASSASINATION OF SHEIKH ABDEL-BAKI SAHARAOUI, CO-FOUNDER OF ISLAMIC SALVATION FRONT(FIS)

Record ID: 646330

  • Title: FRANCE: SCENE FOLLOWING ASSASINATION OF SHEIKH ABDEL-BAKI SAHARAOUI, CO-FOUNDER OF ISLAMIC SALVATION FRONT(FIS)
  • Date: 11th July 1995
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (JULY 11, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV AREA WHERE SHOOTING HAPPENED, POLICE AT SCENE/CU STREET NAME SIGN (2 SHOTS) 0.04 2. SLV /SV COVERED BODY/ POLICE/ ON LOOKERS, AMBULANCES (3 SHOTS) 0.20 3. SV MEN WHO WISHED TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS SPEAKING ABOUT MURDERED MAN (FRENCH)/STREET SCENES (3 SHOTS) 0.56 4. GV/SV ON LOOKERS FROM APARTMENTS ABOVE SCENE/POLICE/ VARIOUS OF SCENE (5 SHOTS) 1.21 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 26th July 1995 13:00
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  • Location: PARIS, FRANCE
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  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVACN8PL542A38TU2C9L66WD7WOL
  • Story Text: Two gunmen burst into a Paris mosque on Tuesday (July 11) and killed Sheikh Abdel-Baki Saharaoui, who co-founded Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) revolutionary movement in 1989.

    They also killed the 85-year-old cleric's bodyguard.

    Firing an assault rifle and a pump shotgun, the assassins charged into the prayer hall of Saharaoui's Rue Myrha mosque, in an area heavily populated by North African Arab immigrants, police said.

    France's TF1 television channel said Saharaoui's name appeared on Monday in Algiers on a list of FIS leaders condemned to death by the rival Armed Islamic Group (GIA).

    The shooting was the first act of violence between Algerian factions in France since Algeria slipped into civil strife between authorities and fundamentalists three years ago.

    The FIS won a landslide vote in Algeria's first multi-party general election, but this was scrapped by the authorities in January 1992.

    Violence quickly followed; an estimated 40,000 people have been killed, including one president, many civilians and about 100 foreigners.


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