- Local Name: Groupe Action Directe International
- Transliteration: N/a
- Alternatives: N/a
- Status: 2013 – 2014 Defeated
- Conflicts: Anarchist Militancy in France
The International Direct Action Group [GADI; Groupe Action Directe International] was a small anarchist militant outfit that briefly operated in southern France.1 The group first appeared on Dec. 25, 2013 when it torched a jail in the city of Tarbes. Two days later, it firebombed an army recruitment office in the same city.2 In February 2014, the GADI asserted responsibility for these incidents.3 That same month, members also hurled a firebomb at a hall of a Christian religious organization in Pau.4 In its statements, the GADI claimed to have carried out the attacks to protest the June 2013 death of a French anarchist at the hands of national-socialist thugs and the imprisonment of other anarchists in Catalonia and France. 5
Soon after the attack in Pau, the French authorities arrested two persons linked to the GADI.6 One of those apprehended, Damien Camelio, was seen as the ringleader of the group. On Feb. 17, 2014 a French court sentenced him to two years imprisonment.7 Camelio refused to identify his companions and no other GADI associates were charged.8
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