Armed Nuclei for Popular Autonomy explained

Noyaux armés pour l'autonomie populaire NAPAP
Dates:	1976 - 1981
Leader:	Frédéric Oriach Christian Harbulot (alleged)
Motives:	Proletarian revolution
Area:	Île-de-France, France
Ideology:	Communism, Maoism
Attacks:	Killing of Jean-Antoine Tramoni
Status:	Inactive

Armed Nuclei for Popular Autonomy (fr|Noyaux armés pour l'autonomie populaire), also known as NAPAP, was a French Maoist armed organization formed in December 1976. According to the police, the leader of the NAPAP was Christian Harbulot.^[1] Members of the NAPAP influenced the Communist Combatant Cells in Belgium.^[2]

Members

• Frédéric Oriach
• Henri Savouillan
• Michel Lapeyre
• Jean-Paul Gérard

Bombings claimed by NAPAP

• 12 January 1976: assault of Paul Gardent, director general of Charbonnages de France (claimed by Vaincre et vivre).
• 23 March 1977: assassination of Jean-Antoine Tramoni, the murderer of Pierre Overney.
• 26 March 1977: attack on the Renault-Flins car park.
• 3 April 1977: fire from the .
• 6 June 1977: attacks against the Usinor factory in Thionville and against Chrysler-France in Paris.
• Summer 1977: series of anti-nuclear attacks with the help of anarchist militants from the Revolutionary Internationalist Action Groups.
• 8 October 1977: attack on the home of the Minister of Justice Alain Peyrefitte.
• 14 October 1977: attacks against the Palace of Justice and the Ministry of Justice in Paris.
• 21 October 1977: attack on Mercedes.
• 25 June 1978: on the night of 25 to 26, a 6kg bomb exploded at the Palace of Versailles. Claimed by NAPAP and then by the International Unemployment Group, it was in fact conducted by the Breton Liberation Front.^[3]
• 9 July 1980: attack against the German Railway Company.

See also

• Gauche prolétarienne
• Mao-Spontex

External links

• NAPAP - Qui sommesnous?

Notes and References

1. Christophe Bourseiller, Les maoïstes. La folle histoire des gardes rouges français, éditions du Seuil, collection « Points », 2008, p. 371
2. Les CCC, l'État et le terrorisme, Jos Vander Velpen, Éditions EPO, 1988.
3. https://bdt.frstrategie.org/fiche_acte_terroriste.php?nrbc=0&highlight=NAPAP&id=759{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}