On 30 March 1985, a bomb exploded inside the Rivoli Beaubourg cinema in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, where an annual Jewish film festival was being held.
At the time the German film Eichmann und das Dritte Reich (1961) about the Holocaust was being screened.
[1] Eighteen people were wounded when the bomb exploded, planted under a seat, causing a hole and damage to the ceiling.
The organisers received an anonymous letter a week before about to "blow everything up, including the director" of the festival.
[6][7] Fabrice Nicolino, who was wounded in the blast, would again fall victim to a terror attack in Paris 30 years later in the Charlie Hebdo shooting, in which he was critically injured in the leg.