1938 Epping Bombing
| 1938 Epping Bombing | |||||||
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| Part of Malgravean Civil War | |||||||
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 The United Kingdom of Malgrave | National Council for Stability and Justice | ||||||
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Prime Minister Jozef Wajda | |||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1 ISD operative killed | |||||||
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Background
In 1936 the Second Wajda Administration published plans to further reduce the size of the armed forces in order to finance the construction of several planned residential and commercial sectors. The National Council for Stability and Justice opposed these plans and led several demonstrations claiming that these reforms would endanger national security and increased unemployment.
At the time the government allowed these protests to go ahead, however, after several violent incidents the government officially banned the NCSJ from organising in the capital without approval from the local government and arrested several senior members that attempted to flout this law. In response, several members of the NCSJ started plotting the assassination of Prime Minister Jozef Wajda, and his replacement with a new NCSJ-led government.
At the start of 1937 the Internal Security Division started to receive intelligence about a potential attack on Epping, but due to ongoing disagreements with Political Protection Service and the International Operations Committee, it was unable to secure the location and target of the planned assault until the date of the attempted assassination.
Bombing
On the 12th of March 1939 members of the NCSJ (posing as members of the state-owned construction company) utilised their connections within the Royal Army to successfully infiltrate the Government Sector. As the NCSJ were posing as engineers from the state-owned construction company and possessed papers given to them by members of the Royal Army they were able to perform repairs on the road outside the Prime Minister's office and plant an explosive device.
The ISD was finally able to piece together target of the planned NCSJ-led operation the following day but due to continuing infighting they were unable to pinpoint the location of the assassination plot, and so were forced to send several agents to oversee the work of the Political Protection Service. When the ISD initially arrived they failed to properly identify the source of the assassination attempt, but with the assistance of Political Protection Service they eventually discovered an error in one of the assailants' paperwork and that led them to uncover the explosives.
It's believed that the NCSJ panicked upon seeing the arrival of the ISD and their newfound cooperation with the PPS and attempted to detonate the explosives early, however due to recent budget cuts the explosives failed to detonate properly and only one ISD operative was killed during the operation.