2005 Lisses car bombing

The 2005 Lisses car bombing was a car explosion which took place on the popular La Rue Road in Lisses, which resulted in 17 deaths and 42 injuries. The bombing was carried out by the Environmental Liberation Front in an act of, protesting poor working conditions and environmental waste caused by luxury brand clothes companies such as D'Assouiant and Toro. The car bombing prompted widespread media attention and a national manhunt of the eco-terrorists.

The bombing did little to persuade luxury brands to close down sweatshops and alleviate international workers. In fact, the event resulted in the creation of a consolidated domestic terrorism policy and the development of inter-agency counter-terrorism relationships.

Background
The Environmental Liberation Front has been an active eco-terrorist group since the late 1980s, having committed several criminal acts in response to a wide variety of environmental cues. Prior to this incident, their most notorious activity was the 1998 assassination of Gilles Thauvin, a provincial judge.