Lobau bombing
| Lobau bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of Ère des attentats | |
Representation of the Lobau bombing aftermath (dining room of the barracks) in Le Petit Journal (16 April 1892) | |
| Location | Paris |
| Coordinates | 48°51′19″N 2°21′13″E / 48.85528°N 2.35361°E |
| Date | 15 March 1892 |
Attack type | bombing |
| Deaths | 0 |
| Injured | 0 |
| Perpetrator | Théodule Meunier |
No. of participants | 1 |
| Motive | Anarchism |
| Convicted | 1 |
| Verdict | Guilty (life in penal labor) |
The Lobau bombing was a bomb attack in Paris, France, carried out on 15 March 1892, by the anarchist militant Théodule Meunier against the Lobau barracks. Organized four days after the Saint-Germain bombing, it was one of the first attacks of the Ère des attentats (1892–1894). The explosion caused material damage in the surrounding area but killed or injured no one.
Meunier managed to carry out the Véry bombing a month later before fleeing to the United Kingdom. He was subsequently extradited to France, sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor, and deported to the penal colony of Cayenne, where he died.
This bombing, along with other attacks during the Ère des attentats, marked an early shift in terrorist strategy: instead of targeting specific individuals, it focused on symbolic locations—in this case, the Lobau barracks as a stand-in for a precise human target. This shift became a hallmark of modern terrorism but was poorly understood by contemporaries.