Foyot bombing
| Foyot bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of Ère des attentats | |
Depiction of the Foyot bombing in Le Petit Parisien : supplément illustré (15 April 1894) | |
| Location | Paris |
| Coordinates | 48°50′57.91135″N 2°20′15.96484″E / 48.8494198194°N 2.3377680111°E |
| Date | 4 April 1894 |
Attack type | bombing |
| Deaths | 0 |
| Injured | 4 |
| Perpetrator | French state (?) / Okhrana (?) |
The Foyot bombing was a bomb attack carried out on 4 April 1894, in Paris against the Foyot restaurant, located at 33 rue de Tournon, fifty meters from the French Senate. This attack, which took place during the Ère des attentats (1892-1894), injured four people, including the anarchists Laurent Tailhade and Julia Miahle, when a bomb hidden in a flower pot exploded. It followed the Madeleine bombing.
The identity of the perpetrator and the motive for this attack remain unknown, as the police at the time favored the idea of an anarchist attack possibly committed by Félix Fénéon, Louis Matha, or Paul Delesalle targeting a location associated with the French Senate, without real success. A crime of passion aimed at Tailhade was also suggested, although such a hypothesis seems very unlikely. According to Philippe Oriol, the most probable hypotheses are that it was either a police conspiracy by the French authorities against Tailhade aimed at legitimizing anti-anarchist repression or an attack launched by the Okhrana, the secret police of the Russian Empire, active in terrorism in Paris at that time and seeking to provoke unrest in France.