Paris July 25.1995 France

A bomb detonated aboard a Paris subway train as it arrived at St. Michel station, killing seven commuters and wounding 117.
Algeria's GIA claimed responsible.
The GIA - Groupes Islamiques Armées and Groupes Salafistes or the "Islamist Armed Groups" are a loose cell type structure under regional chiefs or "emirs". They have been waging war against the Algerian state ever since the army annulled the elections in 1991. Over 100 European residents were murdered, including nuns, often by having their throats cut. While European victims are counted in hundreds, Algerian victims are counted in thousands. Nobody knows how many. Whole villages were massacred. There were bombing campaigns both in Algeria and in metropolitan France.

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