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Explosives, blackmail and classified ads… The improbable AZF terrorist cell

2024-02-20T17:41:02.348Z

Highlights: In 2004, a mysterious commando called AZF threatened to blow up trains and demanded millions of euros from the French authorities. The courts sentenced a former business manager and his ex-employee to 5 and 3 years in prison in the case of the false AZF terrorist cell. The story begins in December 2003, when a letter arrived at the Elysée: a group presenting itself under the name ‘AZF’ The authorities take the matter seriously, and try to contact the terrorist cell via the classified ads in the newspaper Libération.


PODCAST. In 2004, a mysterious commando called AZF threatened to blow up trains and demanded millions of euros from the French authorities.


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Summary.

On February 16, the courts sentenced a former business manager and his ex-employee to 5 and 3 years in prison in the case of the false AZF terrorist cell.

In 2004, this group threatened to detonate bombs along the railway line, and demanded several million euros in ransom.

The story begins in December 2003, when a letter arrived at the Elysée: a group presenting itself under the name “AZF” warned that it would soon take action.

AZF sent other letters at the beginning of 2004, in which it claimed to have planted homemade bombs on the railway network, and demanded a ransom not to detonate them.

The authorities take the matter seriously, and try to contact the terrorist cell via the classified ads in the newspaper Libération.

For Code source, Timothée Boutry and Clara Seren-Rosso, journalists at the police justice department of Le Parisien, return to the AZF affair.

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Credits.

Editorial direction: Pierre Chausse - Editor-in-chief: Jules Lavie - Reporter: Ambre Rosala - Production: Clara Garnier-Amouroux, Raphaël Pueyo and Thibault Lambert - Production and mixing: Pierre Chaffanjon - Music: François Clos, Audio Network - Archives: INA.

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