Armed Nuclei for Popular Autonomy

{{Infobox militant organization

| name = Noyaux armés pour l'autonomie populaire
NAPAP

| dates = 1976 - 1981

| leader = Frédéric Oriach
Christian Harbulot (alleged)

| motives = Proletarian revolution

| area = Île-de-France

| ideology = Communism
Maoism

| attacks = Killing of Jean-Antoine Tramoni

| status = Inactive

}}

Armed Nuclei for Popular Autonomy ({{langx|fr|Noyaux armés pour l'autonomie populaire}}), also known as NAPAP, was a French Maoist armed organization formed in December 1976. According to the police, the leader of the NAPAP was Christian Harbulot.Christophe Bourseiller, Les maoïstes. La folle histoire des gardes rouges français, éditions du Seuil, collection « Points », 2008, p. 371 Members of the NAPAP influenced the Communist Combatant Cells in Belgium.Les CCC, l'État et le terrorisme, Jos Vander Velpen, Éditions EPO, 1988.

Members

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  • Frédéric Oriach
  • Henri Savouillan
  • Michel Lapeyre
  • Jean-Paul Gérard

Bombings claimed by NAPAP

  • 12 January 1976: assault of Paul Gardent, director general of Charbonnages de France (claimed by Vaincre et vivre).
  • 23 March 1977: assassination of Jean-Antoine Tramoni, the murderer of Pierre Overney.
  • 26 March 1977: attack on the Renault-Flins car park.
  • 3 April 1977: fire from the Confédération des syndicats libres
  • 6 June 1977: attacks against the Usinor factory in Thionville and against Chrysler-France in Paris.
  • Summer 1977: series of anti-nuclear attacks with the help of anarchist militants from the Internationalist Revolutionary Action Groups.
  • 8 October 1977: attack on the home of the Minister of Justice Alain Peyrefitte.
  • 14 October 1977: attacks against the Palace of Justice and the Ministry of Justice in Paris.
  • 21 October 1977: attack on Mercedes.{{Clarify|date=November 2022}}
  • 25 June 1978: on the night of 25 to 26, a 6kg bomb exploded at the Palace of Versailles. Claimed by NAPAP and then by the International Unemployment Group, it was in fact conducted by the Breton Liberation Front.https://bdt.frstrategie.org/fiche_acte_terroriste.php?nrbc=0&highlight=NAPAP&id=759{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • 9 July 1980: attack against the German Railway Company.

See also

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