The far-left Direct Action (AD) terror group detonated a bomb at the headquarters of the Brigade de répression du banditisme (BRB) police division in Paris, France, on 9 July 1986.

It killed the division's chief inspector, Marcel Basdevant, and injured 22 other officers.

[1][2] The bomb is thought to have contained 10 kg of explosives and was planted in a restroom on the third floor.

[3] Maxime Frérot, a member of Action Directe's Lyon branch who was already wanted for 3 murders including 2 police officers, was arrested in 1989 for the attack.

[4][5] On the same day, the West German Red Army Faction (which was allied with Direct Action) assassinated Karl Heinz Beckurts in Bavaria.