Fouad Ali Saleh (born 10 May 1958) is a Tunisian Islamist and terrorist widely considered to be the organizer of Hezbollah in France, responsible for a series of attacks committed in 1985 and 1986 in Paris, which resulted in thirteen deaths and left more than three hundred people injured.

[1] He then converted to Shiism and attended the Theological University of Qom, in Iran, from February 1981 to June 1982,[2] under the direction of Ayatollah Khomeini, from whom he learned the Islamist ideology judged by Yves Lacoste as conquering and anti-Western.

[6] Denounced by an accomplice in exchange for a substantial sum of money, Saleh was arrested on 21 March 1987 by the DST in the company of his driver in their home at 44 rue de la Voûte, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris; 12 liters (3.2 U.S. gal) of methyl nitrate were found in their trunk.

These seizures prompted Saleh to cut short a third campaign of attacks after the deadliest between them, which took place at rue de Rennes, resulted in the deaths of seven people.

[10] For his recognized decisive involvement, the Paris Special Assize Court sentenced Saleh to life imprisonment on 14 April 1992, with a security period of 18 years.

Hassan Aroua, the 38-year-old Tunisian driver, Abdelhamid Badaoui, Omar Agnaou and the two Moroccan “students” who stored the explosives, were also sentenced to life imprisonment but without a security period.

[11] Other militants involved in the attacks were captured and sentenced in absentia on 8 October 1992 to life imprisonment: they were the “masterminds”: Abdelhadi Hamade, his two lieutenants, Ibrahim Aqil and Hassan Goshn, and of the two “artificers”, Hussein Mazbouh and Haidar Habib.

The one against the Tati store, at the time “the bloodiest attack ever perpetrated against civilians in France”, gave rise three years later to a ceremony on rue de Rennes led by President François Mitterrand and the mayor of Paris , Jacques Chirac.

In 2012, a television film was broadcast, The Gordji Affair: Story of Cohabitation, which depicts the consequences, at the highest level of the State, of the involvement of fundamentalist Iran in the attacks perpetrated by Saleh in Paris.