[Le Monde] Plane Crashes into Eiffel Tower, Tragic Day For All

Continuous French involvement has stoked the fires of rage in nationalist 

terrorist groups across Asia.

September 1st, 1998


Having endured consistent French interference, and frequent involvement in a variety of lending facilities 

to the these Asian countries, a variety of terrorist organisations in the Asian region have executed a series of 

terrorist attacks on the Isle-de-France province in France. Hanchongryun in South Korea along with Aum 

Shinrikyo in Japan have been enraged by the tough conditionality laced within these toxic lending 

\arrangements, while Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia contrarily have been furious over a lack of support 

and seeming apathy towards Indonesian survival without mass concessions of sovereignty. The lack of IMF
action over the past year, with only 2 lending arrangement having been passed, has not helped in dissuading
such attacks either; as economic pressures pushing people towards radicalism.


Over the past few days, terrorist attacks have taken place across the region, supported by the distraction that 

is the Algerian terrorist attacks in Southern France. However, despite the best efforts of the French military 

to prevent such attacks, one hijacking of a plane has succeeded, with the Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 7 

crashing into and collapsing the Efifel Tower; killing 147 civilians working/touring the attraction. 


The immediate economic ramifications of such an attack are likely to be massive, with airspaces across 

Europe to close for the next week, consumer panic already driving stock collapses, and general global 

uncertainty as a response from the French government is expected.

Location: Paris, France

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