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« Damn, it was them! » This is what the investigators of the Lyon banditry brigade say they are said on March 29, 1986, when they discovered an impressive accumulation of documents, weapons, wicks and detonators, listening equipment, postages, makeup and even a police uniform in a Saint-Etienne apartment. Then they set their hands on claims of attacks struck from the star with five branches of direct action. It is a hideout, not the least, of the far left terrorist group that has been raging for seven years. Until then, not a cop, even aware of the survival of the May 68 revolt, had imagined only one group than that formed in Paris by Jean-Marc RouillanNathalie Ménigon, Joëlle Aubron And Georges Cipriani was able to act independently of the quartet finally arrested in 1987 and sentenced two years later to life imprisonment.

The trajectory of an activist with an ambivalent profile, André Olivier, has passed under radars. He is a French teacher dismissed from National Education because of his radicality, then fired for the same reason for the Lyon factory where he tries to « settle » as a worker Frai