A massive car bomb destroyed much of the French embassy in Tripoli and wounded two guards. The Foreign Ministry said a French-Libyan team would investigate the “terrorist act.” On April 19, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb threatened to retaliate against France for its military mission in Mali. A soldier was shot in Benghazi, and the brother of a prisoner who died in an ambush of a prisoner-transfer convoy tried to blockade Tripoli airport.
