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The bombing of the French consulate in West Berlin was a terrorist bomb attack targeting the Maison de France consulate on the Kurfürstendamm in West Berlin, West Germany on 25 August 1983. It killed one person and injured 23 others. The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) claimed responsibility in a telephone call and also took credit for a bomb at a French base in Beirut the same day, coming a month after the group's Orly Airport attack. The group commented "We will continue our struggle until the liberation of innocent Armenians from French jails." However the attack was actually orchestrated by Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, who had relations with the ASALA's leadership. Carlos claimed responsibility in a letter written to the German Em

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  • The bombing of the French consulate in West Berlin was a terrorist bomb attack targeting the Maison de France consulate on the Kurfürstendamm in West Berlin, West Germany on 25 August 1983. It killed one person and injured 23 others. The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) claimed responsibility in a telephone call and also took credit for a bomb at a French base in Beirut the same day, coming a month after the group's Orly Airport attack. The group commented "We will continue our struggle until the liberation of innocent Armenians from French jails." However the attack was actually orchestrated by Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, who had relations with the ASALA's leadership. Carlos claimed responsibility in a letter written to the German Embassy in Saudi Arabia. The bomb, containing 20 to 30 kg of explosives, was planted in a storage room on the building's fourth floor by Ahmed Mustafa El-Sibai, a Lebanese man and associate of Carlos. The blast tore the building's roof, destroyed the fourth floor and caused part of it to collapse, causing a total of 2.5 million marks in damage. The explosives were brought into East Berlin by Johannes Weinrich, another close aide to Carlos. Weinrich had brought the explosives in a year prior, they had been confiscated by the Stasi secret police, then returned just prior to the bombing by East German major (later lieutenant colonel/oberstleutnant) Helmut Voigt who passed the explosives back to Weinrich at the Syrian Embassy, which was Carlos's base in East Germany. Weinrich successfully transported the explosives from East to West Berlin via the Friedrichstraße before giving them to El-Sibai who planted it. The fatal victim was 26-year-old Michael Haritz, a peace activist who was handing out leaflets at the consulate protesting France's nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific, and died from asphyxiation. Carlos previously bombed several targets in France, including the 1982 Capitole train bombing. He said the attacks in France and West Berlin were in revenge for French air strikes against a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine training camp in Lebanon. (en)
  • Un attentat contre la à Berlin-Ouest a touché, le 25 août 1983, ce centre culturel français situé sur la Kurfürstendamm. L'attaque a fait un mort et 23 blessés. La bombe contenant de 20 à 30kg de tétranitrate de pentaérythritol est déposée au quatrième étage de l'édifice par Ahmed Mustafa El-Sibai, un Libanais proche du terroriste Ilich Ramírez Sánchez dit Carlos. L'explosion éventre le toit du bâtiment, détruit le quatrième étage et en provoque l'effondrement partiel, causant au total 2,5 millions de Deutsche Mark de dégâts. L'attaque est revendiquée par l'Armée secrète arménienne de libération de l'Arménie (ASALA) et a été organisée par Carlos. (fr)
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  • Maison de France pictured in 2013 (en)
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  • terrorism in Germany (en)
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  • Carlos the Jackal on behalf of Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (en)
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  • The bombing of the French consulate in West Berlin was a terrorist bomb attack targeting the Maison de France consulate on the Kurfürstendamm in West Berlin, West Germany on 25 August 1983. It killed one person and injured 23 others. The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) claimed responsibility in a telephone call and also took credit for a bomb at a French base in Beirut the same day, coming a month after the group's Orly Airport attack. The group commented "We will continue our struggle until the liberation of innocent Armenians from French jails." However the attack was actually orchestrated by Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, who had relations with the ASALA's leadership. Carlos claimed responsibility in a letter written to the German Em (en)
  • Un attentat contre la à Berlin-Ouest a touché, le 25 août 1983, ce centre culturel français situé sur la Kurfürstendamm. L'attaque a fait un mort et 23 blessés. La bombe contenant de 20 à 30kg de tétranitrate de pentaérythritol est déposée au quatrième étage de l'édifice par Ahmed Mustafa El-Sibai, un Libanais proche du terroriste Ilich Ramírez Sánchez dit Carlos. L'explosion éventre le toit du bâtiment, détruit le quatrième étage et en provoque l'effondrement partiel, causant au total 2,5 millions de Deutsche Mark de dégâts. (fr)
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  • Bombing of French consulate in West Berlin (en)
  • Attentat contre la Maison de France à Berlin-Ouest (fr)
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