What the records say
- When
- 22 Aug 1962
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 48.78° N, 2.24° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Petit-Clamart attack.
Summary
Petit-Clamart attack: An assassination attempt is made against French President Charles de Gaulle by machine-gunning his car in the Paris suburbs. The mastermind, Jean Bastien-Thiry, will later be executed.
Petit-Clamart attack
1962 attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle
The Petit-Clamart attack, also referred to by its perpetrators as Operation Charlotte Corday after assassin Charlotte Corday, was an assassination attempt organized by Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Bastien-Thiry with the Organisation armée secrète (OAS) that aimed to kill Charles de Gaulle, president of France at the time. The attack was carried out on 22 August 1962.
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