Petit-Clamart attack

Petit-Clamart attack
Bullet holes embedded in the exterior of de Gaulle's vehicle. Despite being bombarded, nobody was injured in the car.
Location	Clamart, Seine, Paris Region, France
Coordinates	48°47′00″N 2°11′00″E / 48.7834°N 2.1834°E / 48.7834; 2.1834
Date	22 August 1962
Target	Charles de Gaulle
Attack type	Assassination attempt
Deaths	0
Injured	1 (Panhard driver, caught in crossfire)
Perpetrators	Organisation armée secrète Jean Bastien-Thiry (organizer)
No. of participants	18
Motive	Anti-communism, Opposition to French recognition of Algerian sovereignty[1]
Verdict	1 participant (Jean Bastien-Thiry) executed by firing squad All other participants eventually released
Convictions	3 participants sentenced to death 10+ participants sentenced to various prison terms

The Petit-Clamart attack, also referred to by its perpetrators as Operation Charlotte Corday after Charlotte Corday, was an assassination attempt organized by Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Bastien-Thiry with the Organisation armée secrète (OAS) that aimed to kill Charles de Gaulle, president of France at the time. The attack was carried out on 22 August 1962.

No one was killed and only one person, who was caught in the crossfire, was injured during the attack, which was followed by an intensive investigation led by French authorities. The manhunt ended with almost all participants being caught within a few months. Bastien-Thiry was brought before a military court where he justified his act by claiming that de Gaulle was a tyrant. Bastien-Thiry was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad in the spring of 1963, and remains the last person to be executed by firing squad in France.