A group calling itself The Solidarity Committee with the Arab Political Prisoners and the Middle East claimed responsibility today for setting off the bomb which exploded in the busy Claridge Hotel shopping arcade off the Champs-Elysees at 9:30 last night, injuring seven people, three seriously.
The Committee’s communication to a French news agency here gave no details to substantiate its claim of responsibility for the blast, which caused extensive damage. The communication also called for the release of three terrorists imprisoned in France.
The terrorists are: Georges Ibrahim Abdullah, believed to be the head of the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Factions; Anis Naccache, who tried to murder former Iranian Premier Shapour Bakhtiar; and Waroujan Garbijian, an Armenian, who set off a bomb at Orly Airport in the summer of 1983, killing seven people and wounding 55.
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