9 St. 30 Min, 13 Apr 1975 Jahr - Altercation in East Beirut

Beschreibung:

Early in the morning of April 13, 1975, outside the Church of Notre Dame de la Delivrance at the predominantly Greek-Orthodox district of Ain el-Rammaneh in East Beirut, occurred an altercation between half a dozen armed Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) guerrillas (Arabic: Fedaiyyin) on a passing vehicle performing the customary wavering and firing their automatic rifles into the air (Arabic: Baroud)[1] and a squad of uniformed militiamen belonging to the Phalangist Party's Kataeb Regulatory Forces (KRF) militia who were diverting the traffic at the front of the newly consecrated church where a family baptism was taking place. As the Palestinians refused to be diverted from their route, the Phalangists tried to halt their progress by force and a scuffle quickly ensued, which resulted in the death of the PLO driver of the vehicle after being accidentally shot.