TERRORISM IN PARIS

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28258, 22 April 1957, Page 11

TERRORISM IN PARIS

Gunmen Kill Three (Rec. 10 p.m.) PARIS, April 20. Three persons were shot dead and seven others wounded last night in a series of sub-machine-gun attacks in streets and cafes frequented by North Africans in Paris, police reported today. In one of the attacks, gunmen burst into a cafe near the Gare dt Lyons, a mainline rail terminal, shortly before midnight, and sprayed the customers with sub-machine-gun bullets, wounding four people. Three North Africans were killed in the northern part of the capital, one of them as he sat in a cafe. The French Ministry of the Interior later ordered stronger police measures against the attacks on members of the North African community in France. Eight hundred police armed with rifles and tommy guns cordoned off the Goutte d’Or area in the Pigalle night club quarter of Paris, known as the city’s “Arab quarter.” During the swoop, the police searched buildings for arms and Algerian nationalist pamphlets. First reports said that 122 persons were detained after a fourhour search. Machine-gun, knife and bomb attacks on members of the North African community in France have been increasing during the last few days, particularly in Paris. According to police reports, 78 Moslems were killed and 1000 others wounded in “punitive expeditions’’ last year among the 350.000 Algerian •workers in France. Police say the attacks are due to intimidation by Algerians backing the two-year-old Moslem Nationalist uprising in Algeria, or rivalry among the Algerian Nationalist groups in Paris. An Algiers message says 14 French soldiers were killed and two wounded on Thursday when a detachment of security forces were attacked by an insurgent band near Affreville, about 55 miles south-west of Algiers. The insurgents were driven off when French reinforcements arrived Insurgent casualties were reported as two dead and several wounded. Eight French soldiers were killed and five wounded when they were ambushed yesterday near Inkermann, Western Algeria.