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The 2015 Acadian Gendarmerie bombing was a terrorist attack carried out by suspected Macradonian liberation supporters on the Gendarmerie building in downtown Testlonica, Macradonia, in March of 2015. With 8 dead and 5 wounded, it was the deadliest attack on the Acadian Gendarmerie, leaving more officers dead in a single incident than any other. The Acadian government accused Dorkugal of funding or even ordering the attack on its officers, but a Parliamentary probe into the incident found no ties to Dorkugal. However, the Acadian government still accuses Dorkugal of the attacks to this day.

Background
In January of 2015, Acadian forces invaded the island of Macradonia alongside its Snowinian allies, to crush a terrorist invasion of the island that the Macradonian authorities failed to handle. Despite hopes that the occupation would be brief, Acadian and Snowinian forces stayed on the island for months, during which many rights were restricted. Both the Acadian and Snowinian administrations restricted free speech rights and frequently locked up suspected Macradonian rebels or Dorkugese collaborators, which angered the populace, who reacted harshly in the form of riots and attacks on soldiers and police.

Though Macradonia was under martial law in both sections of the island, in Acadia, the Gendarmerie played a major role in law enforcement and the suppression of rebellions, and among that, rights. This, along with the fact that the Gendarmerie was suspected of atrocities against suspected rebels and collaborators throughout the island, led the Macradonian people to hate the Gendarmerie, who were seen as oppressors rather than protectors. A group of Macradonian rebels plotted to bomb the Gendarmerie headquarters to deal a major blow to the organization and enact revenge.

The Event
At around 8 AM, a truck driven by two penguins stopped in front of the Gendarmerie headquarters on a partially closed street in downtown Testlonica. The truck was quickly approached by two of the three Gendarmes manning the blockade, who asked for identification, explaining that it was a restricted access area and was blocked to all non government personnel. The penguins responded by saying that they were from the port of Spaghette and were lost trying to find their way to a warehouse outside the city and needed directions on how to get there.

The two Gendarmes, believing that the two penguins were lost trying to navigate through the many blockades in Testlonica, gave the penguins directions, but after a few seconds the penguins hadn't moved the truck. Suspicious, the Gendarmes asked the two penguins to step out of the vehicle, which they tried to stall, and the Gendarmes asked for backup, at which three Gendarmes ran out of the headquarters and pointed guns at the two penguins, demanding they get out of the car immediately or they would be shot.

Two Gendarmes went in the back of the truck to search it while the three Gendarmes in the front tried to get the penguins to step out of the truck. At this point, it is believed that one of the penguins in the front detonated a large bomb stored in the back of the truck, which exploded immediately and sent a large smoke column into the sky. The bomb killed eight Gendarmes, two searching the back of the truck, the four Gendarmes in the front and at the blockade, and two additional Gendarmes who were guarding the entrance to the building, and injured five other bystanders with minor injuries.

The bomb, which ripped through the vicinity and left a crater in the area, along with destroyed a section of the building, was aimed at the commander of the Gendarmerie in Macradonia, Jean Dubois, and some of the high ranking Gendarmes who were in charge of operations in Macradonia, who had been gathered for a meeting that day. It was meant to cripple the Gendarmerie in Macradonia by wiping out its headquarters and most of its high command, and to give a message to the Acadian occupiers. Fortunately, the meeting had ended a few minutes earlier, and the Gendarmes survived.

Reactions

 * FlagROSn.png Snowiny - King Robert Smith condemned in the strongest possible terms the attack Testlonica, calling the rebels 'terrorists' and 'barbaric animals'. King Robert Smith further stated that 'Snowinian troops are here to stay' and that 'Acadia's territorial integrity must be protected'.

Aftermath
The Acadian government immediately blamed the Dorkuguese government for either directly ordering the attack or funding those responsible, and the Dorkugese government was harshly condemned. However, a Parliamentary probe onto the attack a few days later failed to come up with any feasible evidence that the Dorkugese government was behind the attack, and the official word from the committee was that it suspected the Macradonian rebels working alone with no outside help, although they were disregarded as "a hastily done report with the lack of proper resources".

The attacked, which killed 8 Gendarmerie officers and wounded 2 others, shocked the Acadian public and law enforcement community, who were horrified that anyone would dare carry out such an attack. The officers were posthumously given medals for honor and bravery by the Acadian government for dying in the cause of protecting their country. Thousands gathered for the funerals of the Gendarmes, and there were protests in the capital city of Delphi for the Acadian government to retaliate against Dorkugal by declaring war on them.

Over the next few weeks in Macradonia, the Gendarmerie and Military Police would conduct dozens of raids on suspected rebel safe houses in Macradonia, which captured many of the perpetrators of the attack. The perpetrators were given brief trials which were considered unfair and those who were found to be directly involved in the attacks were executed by firing squad and their bodies burned, while those who weren't sentenced to death were sentenced to life in prison, though all of these prisoners were released by Acadia after the war.