Charles Martel Group
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The Charles Martel Group (also known as the Charles Martel Club) was a French far-right anti-Arab terrorist organization which operated in the 1970s and 1980s. It was named after Charles Martel, the Frankish king who defeated invaders of the Umayyad Caliphate at the Battle of Tours in 732.
[edit] Attacks
- 14 December 1973 - Bomb attack on the Algerian consulate offices in Marseilles. Four Algerians were killed and 20 injured.
- 2 March 1975 - Bomb attacks on the Air Algérie offices in Toulouse and Lyon. No-one was hurt.
- 10 April, 1975 - Car bomb explodes outside the Algerian consulate in Paris. No-one was hurt. Claimed by the Charles Martel group as a protest against the French President's visit to Algeria.
- 1 November 1977 - Two Algerians kidnapped in Paris. Claimed as a reprisal for the kidnapping of two French nationals in Mauritania the previous month by the Algerian-backed Polisario Front.
- 7 May 1980 - Bombing of the North African Moslem Students Association. No-one was hurt.
- 11 May, 1980 - Algerian consulate in Aubervilliers bombed. No-one was hurt. A handwritten leaflet was left claiming responsibility, and stating that the Charles Martel Group was "against the church, the Jews, the starving of the Third World, and for the white race".
- 9 August 1983 - Bomb attack on the Air Algérie office in Marseilles. No-one was hurt.
