5 April 1986; 38 years ago (1986-04-05) 1:45 a.m. (CET/CEST)
Attack type
Bombing
Weapons
Plastic explosive
Deaths
3 (2 US soldiers, 1 Turkish civilian)[1]
Injured
229[1]
Perpetrators
Verena Chanaa, Yasir Shraydi, Musbah Eter, Ali Chanaa
On 5 April 1986, three people were killed and 229 injured when La Belle discothèque was bombed in the Friedenau locality (then part of Schöneberg, and since 2001 part of the merged district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg) of West Berlin. The entertainment venue was commonly frequented by United States soldiers;[2][3] two of the dead and 79 of the injured were Americans.[1]
Libya was accused by the US government of sponsoring the bombing, before US president Ronald Reagan ordered retaliatory strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi in Libya ten days later. The operation was widely seen as an attempt to kill colonel Muammar Gaddafi.[4] However, in the bombing's aftermath, this claim was met with widespread skepticism. In 1987, Manfred Ganschow, the head of the West German team investigating the bombing, said that there was no evidence pointing towards Libya, a belief which was corroborated by numerous intelligence agencies in Europe at the time, according to a BBC report.[5]: 81 In 2001, following a four-year German trial called murky,[2] marred by what the court called a "limited willingness" by the American and German governments to share evidence,[2][1] it was found that the bombing had been "planned by the Libyan Intelligence Service and the Libyan embassy",[1] but absolved Gaddafi of responsibility.[2][1][6]
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^ abcdefErlanger, Steven (14 November 2001). "4 Guilty in Fatal 1986 Berlin Disco Bombing Linked to Libya". New York Times. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
^ abcdMalinarich, Nathalie (13 November 2001). "Flashback: The Berlin disco bombing". BBC News.
^"World News Briefs;Lebanon Hands Suspect Over to German Court". New York Times. 24 May 1996.
^"Flashback: The Berlin disco bombing". BBC News. 13 November 2001. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
^Chomsky, Noam (2002). Understanding power : the indispensable Chomsky. Peter R. Mitchell, John Schoeffel. New York: New Press. ISBN 1-56584-703-2. OCLC 46936001.
^"Four jailed by Berlin court for disco bombing". The Irish Times. 13 November 2001. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
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