The Groupes d'action révolutionnaire internationalistes (GARI) were an anti-imperialist group in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 in the 1970s. Based mainly in the south, around Toulouse

Toulouse

Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

, it formed after the execution by the Francoist regime of the Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig Antich

Salvador Puig Antich

Salvador Puig Antich was a Spanish anarchist, born in Barcelona, and active during the 1960s. A member of the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación , he was executed by the Francoist regime after being tried by a military tribunal and found guilty of the death of a Guardia Civil policeman...

 and was close to Spanish

Spain

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 anti-fascists. Several GARI members, among whom Jean-Marc Rouillan, a former member of the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación

Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación

The Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación was a Catalan ultra-left armed group between 1971 and 1973, based mainly in Barcelona, Spain, and in Toulouse, France. It became famous after its dissolving because of the execution by the Francoist regime of one of its members, Salvador Puig Antich, in March...

, or MIL (as was Salvador Puig Antich), would then create the leftist militant group Action directe.