The Paris Plot - BBC DVD
£190.00
Recommended retail price: £195.00
Stock type: DVD
Stock reference: 54.034
£190.00
Recommended retail price: £195.00
Stock type: DVD
Stock reference: 54.034
In 1994 as an Air France plane was preparing to leave Algiers airport, four men dressed in uniforms entered the plane to check passports. But they were not officials of the Algerian authorities; they were members of the GIA, an Islamist extremist group who had been slaughtering thousands across Algeria for the last two years. They were part of a vicious, brutalising civil war that had engulfed Algeria since the elections which gave the Islamic party victory were cancelled by the military.
The men hijacked the plane and demanded it be flown to Paris. Two days elapsed and three passengers were executed before the Algerian authorities allowed the flight to depart for Marseille.
At Marseille, the terrorists demanded 27 tonnes of fuel to fly on to Paris. The French authorities then realised that they had no intention of landing in Paris and negotiating the release of the hostages. Instead, they were planning to use the plane as a missile and crash it into the heart of Paris, in a terrifying prototype of 9/11. An elite team of French commandos raided the plane, killing the terrorists and liberating the passengers. France cracked down on Islamic extremists in its midst, many of whom fled to England and ''Londonistan'' is born.
A new combustible form of terror had arrived: the struggle of one country mixed with devotion to religious extremism. The result was a commitment to a spectacular war on the non-believer, a war that made no distinction between guilty and innocent, combatant and civilian.
Age of Terror: Episode 3
Duration 50 minutes.
Certificate UC
Released 2008
Contents - 1 x DVD
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