A powerful bomb explosion virtually destroyed a Jewish shop which imports goods from Israel in a Paris suburb today. An extreme leftwing group, Direct Action, which yesterday set off a bomb in front of a bank formerly owned by Israeli shareholders and then sold to the Rothschild family, said it carried out today’s attack as well. Last week, a “Jewish branch” of the organization machine gunned the car of an Israeli diplomat. There were no casualties in any of the incidents.
The explosion today, however, seriously damaged the Nemor shop and the premises of 10 other stores along the street. The bomb left a crater in front of the Nemor shop and set afire six cars parked in the vicinity. The terrorists said in a communique released to the press that the attack was carried out “in retaliation” for the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
In the bomb blast yesterday, windows were shattered for several hundred yards. The bank, which has a predominently Jewish clientele, was nationalized when the Socialist government of Francois Mitterrand took over some of France’s largest banks earlier this year. The bank, however, kept its original name, Discount Bank.
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