7/12 attacks

7/12 attack
7/12 attack
Location	Petropolis and Hypatia, Constancia
Date	12.VII.1710
Attack type	Active shooter and terrorism
Perpetrator(s)	Peripatetic and Mendicant Liberation Army, supported by Vanic Front of Salvation

The 7/12 attacks refer to two incidents of domestic terrorism within the Imperial State of Constancia instigated and initiated by Niklas Yishmeray, an Androphagi bearing allegiance to the so-called Free State of Constancia.

Background

The Twelfth Imperial Synkletos was convened on 14.1.1710, its members charged to deal with the effects of the Recession of 1709.

Plot

12.VII.1710 was a session day of the Imperial Synkletos, and as such, Mesazon Garvin Hendriksson was due to attend an important debate at the Palace of Imperial Unity. At 7:32 a.m., his convoy was ambushed via a car bomb located at a routine traffic stop, and his armored limousine, along with several escort vehicles, flipped over.

The State Protection Authority, monitoring the situation, immediately executed Operation RED POPPY, with Operations MAD COW and MAD DOG for parallel security of officials. The Borders Control Agency directed stoppage of all flights and sailings throughout the Imperial State, and all border crossings were temporarily closed for several hours. Proceedings of the Imperial Synkletos were practically suspended for the day.

At the same time of the assassination attempt, a training camp of the Humanist Vanguard of the Nationalist & Humanist Party at a beach in Nisyros, southwest of Aqaba, was set upon by 7 gunmen, who were dressed in Imperial Constancian Army uniforms. Members of the Princess Isabella's Own Volunteers deployed for local security immediately responded, killing all 7 gunmen, but not before 33 members of the Young Humanists League lay dead, with another 18 wounded.

A third attempted attack at the Port of Aqaba was foiled by watchful Imperial Constancian Navy personnel.

Statement and Claim of Responsibility

A statement sent to various media organizations immediately after both attacks claimed the following:

The righteous action of the Armed Forces of the democratic Free State of Constancia against the fascist oligarchs that currently have a complete stranglehold upon the free peoples of Constancia serves as a warning to them that freedom rings true within Eura, especially within their so-called Imperial State. This tyrannical regime that continues to suppress civil rights and the unstoppable democratization of Constancia will soon find its existence at an end, as the sovereign people do all that they can in order to topple this immoral and corrupt regime that no longer has the consent of the governed and the mandate of the citizenry.

Aftermath

The extent of the injuries of Mesazon Garvin Hendriksson eventually led to his resignation on 15.VII.1710. He was replaced as Mesazon by Alissa Guadalim, formally appointed Mesazon of the Imperial State the next day, 16.VII.1710, after an audience with Basileus Giakoumis and Basileusa Esmeralda, Autokrateira of Constancia.