German forces use waters from the Isoletta Dam (Liri River, Italy) in January and February to successfully destroy British assault forces crossing the Garigliano River (downstream of Liri River). The German Army then dam the Rapido River, flooding a valley occupied by the American Army.
The German army floods the Pontine Marches, on the coast of Italy southeast of Rome, by stopping pumps and opening dikes, in order to disrupt Allied forces who had established a beachhead at Anzio, Italy. Allied forces are surrounded by German artillery and pinned down for months by heavy shelling. The purpose of the flooding is to bring mosquitoes and malaria, “deliberately introduced as an act of biological warfare.” This has a limited military impact, but devastates the local population,…
A German biologist threatens to contaminate water supplies with bacilli of anthrax and botulinum toxin unless he is paid $8.5 million.
Explosives are placed along a water supply pipeline by the Comit? R?gional d’Action Viticole in France. No injuries to people are reported.
Reports find at least three attacks on utilities in the H?rault area, including one that damaged a water supply pipeline.
A bomb explodes on the island of Cavallo, off the coast of Corsica, causing a disruption to the local water supply. The attack was likely by the National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) which seeks independence from France.
A water company office in Ustaritz, France is damaged by a bomb thought to be placed in support of a group called the Basque Fatherland and Freedom (aka ETA). The attackers leave writing on the wall in the building demanding the release of ETA prisoners.
In July, workers at the Cellatex chemical plant in northern France dump 5,000 liters of sulfuric acid into a tributary of the Meuse River after they are denied workers’ benefits. A French analyst points out that this is the first time “the environment and public health were made hostage in order to exert pressure, an unheard-of situation until now.”
A powerful bomb explodes in a water utility office building on the Island of Corsica. The building is also graffitied with the nationalist slogan “Freedom for Patriots.”
German forces use waters from the Isoletta Dam (Liri River, Italy) in January and February to successfully destroy British assault forces crossing the Garigliano River (downstream of Liri River). The German Army then dam the Rapido River, flooding a valley occupied by the American Army.