Flights weapons or explosive devices: Previous – Le Figaro

While explosives were stolen from a depot of the army in Miramas (Bouches-du-Rhône), return on similar cases committed by terrorist groups or thugs.

The explosives flights are not a first in France. They are often the mark is in serious crime (they can be useful to blow up armored vehicles) or that of terrorism. ETA, the Basque separatist group, was well illustrated in the years 1990-2000 for its flights by commando chemicals (sodium chlorate) in farms or factories, as well as dynamite used to commit larceny attacks. However, theft of a magnitude that happened in Miramas remain scarce

• 1981. Flight a hundred machine guns in the center of Foix

On the site Opex360 Laurent Lagneau reminds a massive flight arrived in 1981 at No. 83 mobilizer center of Foix. An armed commando it was introduced to steal a hundred machine guns, four machine guns and a military truck. After initially suspected militants of ETA, investigators had realized that the theft was committed by thugs, trying to sell arms in the middle of the crime. Fortunately, the weapons had proved useless, the loader having been withdrawn at

• 1999. 8 tons of explosives stolen from a Breton Plévin mixed commando / Basque

On 28 September 1999, an armed commando enters a career explosives filing the company Plévin Titanite, Brittany. He captured more than eight tons of explosives, detonators 5000, and 11 kilometers from detonating cord. ETA activists were then arrested. They had discovered that they were related to the Breton Revolutionary Army. Basques and Bretons had worked together to commit the theft. Traces of these explosives had been found in a dozen bombings that killed 18 people in Spain between January 2000 and July 2001. In France, we had found traces of the missing dynamite in the deadly attack that killed to an employee of McDonalds Quévert in April 2000

• 2001: Vol. 1.6 tonnes of dynamite near Grenoble by ETA

In March 2001, ETA had struck a blow by stealing 1.6 tons of explosives at the home of a responsible society “Titanite explosives society” (the same company that Plévin) Veurey in Isère. The commando had then seized the industrial dynamite and 20,000 detonators and 10 kilometers of detonating cord

• 2008:. Flight Semtex in Fort Corbas

In June 2008, 28 kilos of Semtex were stolen from Fort Corbas (Rhone), an unsecured site of Civil Security. Michèle Alliot-Marie, Minister of Defence, had blamed the flights’ failure in securing the site. ” It was a very powerful explosive, used by terrorist movements, including the IRA, ETA and Libyan terrorists.