1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing

Bomb attack on a Strasbourg–Paris train November 2015 October 2020 1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing Blacy, Marne train 18 June 1961 Bomb 28 100+ Organisation armée secrète The Vitry-Le-François train bombing of 18 June 1961 was a bomb attack on a Strasbourg–Paris train carried out by the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a far-rightWillem Koomen, Joop Van Der Pligt The Psychology of Radicalization and Terrorism https://books.google.com/books?id=N5r4CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 2 Routledge 2015 9781317677031 paramilitary organization opposed to the independence of Algeria in the Algerian War. With 28 fatalities and over 100 injured, it was the deadliest terrorist attack in modern French history until it was surpassed by the November 2015 Paris attacks and the 2016 Nice truck attack, which killed 130 and 86 people, respectively.L'attentat le plus meurtrier depuis Vitry-Le-François en 1961 fr The deadliest attack since Vitry-Le-François in 1961 Marie-Estelle http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2015/01/07/01016-20150107ARTFIG00178-historique-des-attentats-en-france-depuis-1994.php Pech Le Figaro 7 January 2015 7 January 2015 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150109121648/http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2015/01/07/01016-20150107ARTFIG00178-historique-des-attentats-en-france-depuis-1994.php 9 January 2015 () The bombing targeted the No. 12 express train, which derailed while traveling at high speed near the small village of Blacy, Marne between Vitry-le-François and Loisy-sur-Marne. On the day after the derailment, investigators found that the rails had been sabotaged using an explosive device that went off when the train passed over it. It also emerged that the stationmaster at Vitry-le-François had earlier received a threatening letter from the OAS.http://www.senat.fr/comptes-rendus-seances/5eme/pdf/1962/01/q19620130_0001_0028.pdf Journal officiel de la république française 3 30 January 1962 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150924115207/http://www.senat.fr/comptes-rendus-seances/5eme/pdf/1962/01/q19620130_0001_0028.pdf 24 September 2015 () "2294. — 2ß décembre 1951. — M. Jacques Duclos expose à M. le ministre des travaux publics et des transports : a) que le 18 juin 1961, vers 15 heures 10, le train rapide n° 12 Strasbourg—Paris déraillait à la hauteur du petit village de Blacy (Marne), entre les gares de Vitry-le-François et Loisy-sur-Marne[...]e) que le chef de gare de Vitry-le-François avait reçu avant le déraillement une lettre de menaces de l'O. A. S. disant[...]" The sabotage theory was ruled out despite a threat letter being received a few days earlier, prompting Communist Party leader Jacques Duclos to demand an inquiry on the matter.Journal officiel, 30 January 1962, p. 3, 2294. - 28 December 1961, Jacques Duclos to the Minister https://web.archive.org/web/20150924115207/http://www.senat.fr/comptes-rendus-seances/5eme/pdf/1962/01/q19620130_0001_0028.pdf 24 September 2015 Despite this, the attack was kept secret by the French state.http://www.historia.fr/mensuel/689/lattentat-ferroviaire-reste-secret-detat-01-05-2004-55605 Historia (magazine), 5/2004, Pierre Abramovici, L'attentat ferroviaire resté secret d'État 14 November 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20151117015344/http://www.historia.fr/mensuel/689/lattentat-ferroviaire-reste-secret-detat-01-05-2004-55605 17 November 2015 dead See also List of terrorist incidents in France References expanded 48 43 45 N 4 33 51 E title Vitry-Le-Francois train bombing Category:Train bombings in France Category:Derailments in France Category:20th-century mass murders in France Category:1961 murders in France Category:Organisation armée secrète attacks Category:June 1961 in Europe Category:1961 explosions Category:Right-wing terrorist incidents in the 1960s Category:Neo-fascist terrorist incidents in France Category:Cover-ups Category:Massacres in the Algerian War Category:1961 mass murders Category:1961 in the Algerian War 1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing Category:Improvised explosive device bombings in the 1960s