A terrorist on a motorcycle hurled a bomb into the Jewish-owned Oree du Bois restaurant in the fashionable Bois du Boulogne section yesterday injuring 30 patrons, several of them children. None was seriously hurt, police reported.
The restaurant, which was packed at the time, is owned by Robert Taieb, a Jew who emigrated from Tunis. He could offer no reason for the attack except that it may have been motivated by events in Lebanon. Taieb said he was not connected with any Jewish groups or with Israel.
A similar, more serious incident occurred on August 9, 1982 when terrorists hurled a bomb into the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in Paris’ old Jewish quarter, killing six people and injuring 21. The perpetrators, believed members of a pro-Palestinian terrorist gang, have not yet been apprehended.
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