Chronology
1968
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1967
- August 21
- Three gunmen in a white saloon car rake the
consular section of the US Embassy with machine gun fire
the preceding night. Scattered leaflets call for solidarity
with the Vietnamese. The action is claimed by the First of
May Group. Five of their comrades had been jailed in Spain
for trying to kidnap the chief of an American air base in
Spain.
- November
- Simultaneous bomb attacks against the
Greek, Bolivian and Spanish Embassies in Bonn and the
Venezuelan Embassy in Rome. (1st of May Group -- in soli-
darity with the Latin American guerrillas and against the
fascist regimes in Europe). The same day a bomb destroyed
the entrance to the Spanish Tourist Office in Milan and
the Spanish, Greek and American Embassies in the Hague,
Holland.
- March 3
- Six bombs damage the buildings of diplomatic
missions in London, the Hague and Turin. These actions
were claimed by the 1st of May Group.
- March 6
- Incendiary bomb with timing mechanism ex-
plodes in the Moabit Criminal Court, West Berlin.
- March 18
- Plastic bomb attacks damage three US build-
ings in Paris: Chase Manhattan Bank, Bank of America and
Transworld Airlines.
- March 25
- US Embassy in Madrid bombed,
- August
- International Anarchist Conference in Carrara,
Italy.
- September 10
- Seven young anarchists arrested in Spain,
accused of conspiring with the 1st of May Group and of
participation in actions in the Valencia region. Information
leading to their arrest came from the Special Branch of New
Scotland Yard, London.
- October 15
- Imperial War Museum gutted by incendiary device.
Chronology
1968
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