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Wednesday is a busy day for the Tati discount store on the Rue de Rennes in Paris. School is out that afternoon, and mothers, particularly those with modest incomes, flock to Tati with their children in search of bargains. Thus the sidewalk in front of the store was bustling last week at 5:28 p.m., when two black-mustachioed men in a black BMW drove past. As the car slowed down, the man on the passenger side got out and dropped a package into a trash can near the front door. He quickly hopped back into the car and rode...
...explosion outside Tati was the fifth terrorist bombing to hit the French capital in ten days. Only two days earlier, a violent blast in the driver's license section of Paris police headquarters had killed one and injured 51. Like that attack and others earlier at a post office, a cafeteria and a pub, the Tati outrage appeared to be the work of the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (C.S.P.P.A.). The shadowy organization, apparently made up of Marxist Maronite Christians and based in Lebanon, has claimed responsibility for ten Paris bombings over the past nine...
...bomb was tossed from a black BMW carrying two mustachioed men, one of whom rolled down the window and tossed the bomb at the Tati clothing and textile store in the Montparnasse district, said Laurent Davenas, an assistant state prosecutor...
Windows were blown out at several businesses. The sidewalk in front of the Tati store was covered with glass, debris and bleeding victims, many crying out for help. Police cleared a plaza, the Place du 18 Juin, and used it as a helicopter landing pad to evacuate those with the gravest injuries...
...most seriously wounded were treated on the sidewalk in front of Tati," said one witness. "I saw people dying...