1983 French consulate bombing was a terrorist bomb attack targeting the Maison de France consulate on the Kurfuerstendamm in West Berlin , West Germany on 25 August 1983 . It killed one person and injured 23 other people . The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia ( ASALA ) claimed responsibility in a telephone call which included a bomb at a French base in Beirut the same day , and coming a month after the group 's Orly Airport attack . The group commented " We will continue our struggle until the liberation of innocent Armenians from French jails . " However the attack was actually orchestrated by Ilich Ramírez Sánchez , better known as Carlos the Jackal , who had relations with the ASALA 's leadership . Carlos claimed responsibility in a letter written to the German Embassy in Saudi Arabia
Orly Airport attack
1983 Orly Airport attack
Bombing of French consulate in West Berlin