Pellay JeanYves

French political activist involved in the bombing directed against the synagogue of the French Israeli Liberal Union which was committed in Paris at 6:38PM on 3 October 1980 on the evening of Shabbat and day of Jewish celebration of Simhat Torah. The bombing led to 4 deaths and 46 injuries. It was the first deadly attack against Jewish people in France since the end of the Second World War. Less than one hour after the attack, an anonymous correspondent called the Agence France-Presse claiming that the bombing was in name of Faisceaux Nationalistes Révolutionnaires – a reconstitution of the National and European Action Federation, an extreme right-wing organisation banned by the government on 3 September. A year after the attack, Pellay, a bogyguard in charge of the police presence of the FANE admitted being the author of the anonymous call to the Agence France-Presse and confessed to be in fact a Zionist activist who infiltrated the structure of the organisation. He was given a suspended sentence of one year in prison. Read less