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13 April 1975

✸Shots at Pierre Gemayel's motorcade

AttackerPLO / FatahPalestinians (refugees & camps)➜TargetKataeb (Phalanges) Party

On the morning of 13 April 1975 shots were fired from a speeding car at Pierre Gemayel's motorcade during the consecration of a church in Ain el-Remmaneh, killing his bodyguard Joseph Abou Assi and three others; the direct spark for the bus incident hours later.

The Ain el-Remmaneh bus ▼
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