Bavarian Liberation Army

The Bavarian Liberation Army (BLA) (German:Bajuwarische Befreiungsarmee (BBA) ) is an Austrian right-wing militant organization. Its goal is to create a single, Teutonic, ethnically homogenous state.^[1]

Operations

The BLA claimed responsibiliy for several letter-bomb attacks in 1995, which killed one German (Munich) and two Hungarian women (Linz.^[2]

Franz Fuchs, a self-declared BLA operator, was found guilty in 10 March 2001 of 29 different bombings. Fuchs' attacks, primarily letter bombs, targeted minorities and refugees, as well as Austrian and German advocates for those populations. Fuchs' worst attack killed four Roma in Oberwart in 1995.^[3]

References

^ Austria: General Background Antisemitism and Xenophobia Today, 1996.
^ Austrian Mail-Bomb Alert The New York Times 12 June 2008.
^ Racist bomber found hanged BBC News, 27 February 2000.