France applied a policy in response to attacks from Middle Eastern terrorism in Europe called the " sanctuary doctrine " by analysts , in which French authorities would not interfere with the activities of transnational terrorist groups operating in France as long as they did not attack France or French interests directly . A wave of bombings began in Paris in early 1985 with the bombing of a Marks & Spencer department store , and of the Jewish Rivoli Beaubourg cinema
bombing of a Marks & Spencer
February 1985 Paris bombing
1985–86 Paris attacks