Assassination of Imam Abdelbaki Sahraoui

Assassination of Imam Abdelbaki Sahraoui

Abdelbaki SAHRAOUI, co-founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) and imam of the Myrha street moque in Paris, in the 18th arrondissement, was killed on Tuesday, July 11. This is the first political assassination of an Algerian Islamist leader on French soil since the beginning of the latent civil war in Algeria. - Yesterday, Myrha street: PL police car blocking the street/ body of the man who tried to intervene, under a white sheet/ police PR in plain clothes with an armband. - Interview with a witness who said he saw a man hiding something under his coat entering the mosque. - Black FORD used by assassins / [American plan] police officer with bulletproof vest standing guard in front of mosque / façade Quai des Orfèvres / offices of the Anti-Terrorism Section (SAT) / [panoramic] B/H building where imam SAHRAOUI lived/ 18th street.

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File : 1995 Attacks

Publication date : 12 July 1995