by the VNQDĐ leaders, Nguyen Văn Viên made his own plan. With the help of an accomplice, this individual shot and killed Bazin as he was leaving the home of his mistress, Germaine Carcelle, at 110 route de Huế on February 9, 1929. Although the status of the assassins within the VNQDĐ was uncertain, the killing of Bazin was seen as the first major attack carried out by the movement. French reaction As predicted by Nguyễn Thái Học, the French authorities reacted by apprehending all known members of the VNQDĐ that they could track down, including a young naturalized Frenchman named Léon Sanh. Sanh confessed to the crime, but he later retracted it, claiming only to be a bystander. He later implicated Nguyen Văn Viên as his alleged accomplice. Viên was then captured, but later committed suicide in prison. The sources disagree, but between three and four hundred men were rounded up. Of those seized, 36 were government clerks, 13 were officials in the French government, 36 were schoolteachers, 39 were merchants, 37 were landowners and 40 were military personnel. Eventually 78 men were convicted and sentenced to between five and twenty years in prison. Léon Sanh himself was acquitted. As a result of the arrests, the VNQDĐ leadership was severely depleted. Most of the Central Committee were captured, and Hoc and Nguyen Khac Nhu were among the few who managed to escape from the hideout at the Vietnam Hotel. The pressure under which the VNQDĐ was placed eventually led it to engage in overt violent struggle. This culminated in the Yên Bái mutiny of 1930, which resulted in a large section of the party being executed by the French authorities, decapacitating it as a major threat to the colonial order. References 1929 crimes in Vietnam Vietnamese independence movement French Indochina Bazin, Assassination of 1920s murders in Vietnam 1929 murders in Asia February 1929 events Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng