The head of famous French car company Renault was shot dead on the pavement outside his home on November 19, 1986, in a crime that shocked the nation.

Georges Besse had just stepped out from his chauffeur-driven car when two assassins on a motorbike pulled up and shot him several times.

He fell to the pavement, fatally hit, as one of his young children watched from an upstairs window.

Initially, no person or group admitted carrying out the assassination but French police suspected a feared anarchist terrorist network, known as Action Direct.

They had already shown their readiness to kill to achieve their goals by shooting dead a top French defence official and carrying out bombings at government buildings just months earlier.

Then three months after Besse's killing, authorities recei

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