Once more blood flowed in a Paris street. Once again posters picturing suspected killers appeared in the City of Light. This time the victim was Georges Besse, 58, president of France's largest auto-manufacturing concern, state-owned Renault. Coming just two months after a wave of bombings in crowded commercial centers across Paris killed eleven and injured more than 160, the shooting of Besse outside his home last week shocked and saddened the nation. On Friday 2,000 mourners, headed by President Francois Mitterrand and Premier Jacques Chirac, attended a funeral service for the slain executive at the Hotel des Invalides, the site of...
Terrorism Death At the Doorstep
French executive is slain, and a West German trial begins
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