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...took Zimmermann into another room, where they shot him in the head with a revolver. Zimmermann died twelve hours later. It was the second murder by European terrorists in eight days. On Jan. 25, a shadowy French group called Action Directe claimed responsiblity for gunning down General Rene Audran, the chief of arms sales for the French Ministry of Defense, outside his home near Paris...
...Paris has cause for embarrassment. When the government of President Francois Mitterrand came to power nearly four years ago, it granted amnesty to members of the now outlawed Action Directe, an organization that has carried out nine bombing attacks in the past year in addition to the murder of Audran...
...French police, who have yet to make an arrest in the Audran killing, there was no question that West Germany's Red Army Faction and Action Directe have combined forces into what amounts to a single organization. Said a French official: "There were occasional instances of technical assistance before. The difference now is the tightening of cooperation on a common strategy, with Western defense organizations as primary targets. That has changed the picture entirely...
...high-ranking French Defense Ministry official, Rene Audran, 56, had just driven from his office in Paris to his home in the western suburb of Celle- Saint-Cloud late last week. As he pulled up in front of his house, he was ambushed by assassins who pumped six shots into his body before he could escape from his gray Renault. Audran, who headed the ministry department that deals with international arms sales, died instantly...
Within an hour, an anonymous caller telephoned Agence France-Presse in Paris and claimed that the killing had been carried out by Action Directe, a shadowy French terrorist group that has been linked to West Germany's Red Army Faction. Only hours before Audran's killing, three 230-ft. electric-power pylons at a nuclear-power plant near Hamburg were damaged by explosives. Also last week a suspected Red Army Faction member, Johannes Thimme, 28, became the first casualty of the new terror campaign: he was killed when a bomb he was carrying in a baby carriage detonated prematurely...