The Orly Bombing: The Man Who Walked Free
July 15, 1983. A suitcase explodes at the Turkish Airlines check-in desk in Paris’s Orly Airport. Eight people are killed. More than fifty are injured. The bomb was never meant to detonate on the ground.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson examines the case of Varoujan Garabedian, the Syrian-born Armenian nationalist and ASALA operative who confessed to planting the device, received a life sentence, and was later pardoned by France and welcomed as a hero in Armenia.
A story of historical grievance, calculated violence, and the uneasy line between justice and politics.
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