TOULON, France: Four people, including an extreme rightwing political activist, were killed today while apparently preparing an anti-immigrant bomb attack, police said.
The four were blown to bits when a car they were driving exploded in a market place in the center of this French Mediterr anean port.
The blast started a blaze which gutted a three story building. It also damaged several cars parked nearby and shattered windows in other buildings. There were no other injuries,
Everything was burned and there were bodies lying on the ground, it was not a pretty sight, said one shopkeeper woken up by the explosion at about 1:30 a.m.,
Plod the car appeared to have been carrying up to five kilos (11 pounds) of explosives in preparation for a bomb attack in or near the market place, an area inhabited by a large number of Arab immigrants.
They said one of those killed was Claude Nobile, a former member of the extreme rightwing
National Front Party. The others, burnt beyond recognition, were not immediately identified.
Noblia, a Front candidate for local councitielections in the nearby coastal town of Seyne Sur Mer in 1983, left the party earlier this year to found his own anti-immi grant organization called SOS France.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 22, 1986
