Chapter 1003 Explosion Attack

It can be said that Louis Vuitton (LV) and Dior are the two core brands of the LVMH Group. These two brands support half of the LVMH Group.

Currently, the LVMH Group holds 74% of Dior's shares. This part of the acquisition began in the 1960s. Dior, which was in crisis, was eager to raise funds and completed the transaction.

However, Christian Dior still has 26% of its shares held by some institutions. The original LVMH Group was frustrated in the acquisition of Hermès in 2017. At a premium of 15%, they exchanged the shares of Hermès they held at the time with those institutions holding Christian Dior, thus completing the full holding of Dior.

And at that time, the LVMH Group's acquisition of Hermès was also supported by several banks including NM Rothschild Bank.

From these, it can be seen that the cash flow of LVMH Group is not too rich. If they want to participate in the acquisition of Tiffany and compete with GHL Group, Barron will "besiege Wei to save Zhao" and bid to buy the shares of institutions holding Christian Dior shares.

Although it is impossible to snatch the brand from the hands of LVMH Group even if all the remaining 2ian Dior shares are bought, it is very reasonable to enter the board of directors of Dior with this proportion of shares. I am afraid that LVMH Group does not want this to happen.

When facing the choice of Dior or Tiffany, LVMH's choice will undoubtedly be Dior, the core brand of the group.

In addition to the acquisition of Tiffany, Domenico De Sole also talked about the current development of GHL Group.

Since Barron successively acquired these companies to form GHL Group, he has paid great attention to the Asian market, especially the Chinese market.

In recent years, GHL Group has opened more than 10 GHL flagship stores in Yanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Shancheng and other cities in China, including all the brand products of GHL Group, including Gucci, Hermes, L'Oreal and Valentino, and all of them are located in the center of the most prosperous business district. In fact, these high-end brands under GHL Group are very popular in all commercial complexes, which can improve the style of these places. Therefore, they can often get very low rent or even free rent when they settle in these places.

In addition to the layout of new stores, GHL Group has also carried out a series of promotional activities in China, and even chose China to launch some of their new products, which has also greatly increased the share of GHL Group in the high-end luxury field in China.

Reflected in operating income, their revenue in China has been rising for ten consecutive years, and the Chinese market has become the most important market for GHL Group in the world.

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June 12th is the Pentecost in Israel.

Pentecost is the day to commemorate Moses's receipt of the "Ten Commandments". It is also known as the Harvest Festival because this season coincides with the harvest of wheat and fruit.

On this day, people will decorate their homes with flowers, eat a sumptuous holiday meal the night before the festival, and recite the "Ten Commandments" on the festival day.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of that day, the Mossad headquarters in the Grevoir area at the southern end of Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel, suffered a suicide bombing attack caused by two cars loaded with bombs.

The bombing caused 36 deaths and more than 100 injuries.

When the explosion occurred, Talmir Pardo, the then director of Mossad, and another deputy director died on the spot because they had just entered the headquarters building.

It can be said that this attack was the most significant loss suffered by Mossad since its establishment in 1951. This attack also shocked the whole of Israel.

After the incident, Israel immediately mobilized all its forces to investigate the bombing.

In particular, the timing of the attack was too coincidental. At that time, Mossad Director Talmir Pardo had just entered the headquarters building and was not spared. Therefore, Israel needed to know as soon as possible whether this bombing attack was a premeditated attack with accurate intelligence. If so, it means that there are big problems within Mossad.

Although the "terrorists" who carried out the bombing attack were turned into powder on the spot due to the high-intensity explosion, through the detection of residual human tissue and the investigation of relevant intelligence, Israel still determined that the other party came from the Palestinian resistance organization Hamas.

But the problem is that the Glilot area where the Mossad headquarters is located is also the location of many intelligence departments of the Israel Defense Forces. It can be said that the defense is very tight. The other party can carry out such a precise bombing attack. It must have obtained quite accurate intelligence and other assistance. What if this attack did not occur at the Mossad headquarters, but at the Prime Minister's Office at No. 3 Ballyfor Street in Jerusalem?

This made the Israeli side very nervous and needed to investigate all the intelligence about this attack as quickly as possible.

But no matter what, since it has been "confirmed" that the bombing was carried out by Palestinians, the Israelis immediately launched a new round of bombing and artillery attacks on the Palestinian-controlled areas in retaliation.

Many suspicious persons were arrested and "efficient" interrogations were conducted.

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"What I want to know is, judging from the intensity of the explosion, the other party used super powerful explosives. How did Hamas get it? Is there anyone else behind it supporting them?"

Faced with a question from Israeli Prime Minister Neta, the newly appointed Mossad acting director Yossi Cohen replied:

"According to our detection, the other party used C4 explosives. This is a highly efficient explosive that can easily evade X-ray security inspections. It is also difficult for police dogs without specific sniffing training to identify it. I think this is also The reason why the other party was able to bring him into Israel..."

Yossi Cohen was born in 1961 and grew up in a Jewish family in Jerusalem.

His father, Leo, was the leader of the Irgun militia before the founding of the state of Israel in 1948, the full name of which is Irgun Zvei Leumi. As a "national military organization", it is a Zionist military organization. This organization is not only mainly engaged in spying on the intelligence of the British garrison in Palestine, and smuggling arms from abroad, but also has carried out many extreme terrorist actions against Arabs and British people. .

One of the most shocking actions was undoubtedly the bombing of the King David Hotel on July 22, 1946. This terrorist attack killed 91 people and injured 46 others. Among the dead and injured were British, Arabs, and Swedes. and other Europeans, and even Jews…

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The Irgun disbanded after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and its members later participated in the establishment of the Israel Defense Forces.

The Irgun's organizational philosophy and operational methods had a profound impact on subsequent Israeli political and military strategies.

Yossi Cohen is fluent in many languages, including Hebrew, English, French and Arabic.

In 1983, Cohen was specially recruited into the Mossad. He initially received training as a case-handling officer and became an Israeli border policeman. However, he was actually an officer of the Mossad Training and Organizational Affairs Division, responsible for recruiting and training spies. And trained agents for the Israeli Military Intelligence Service (Aiman) and the Israeli National Security Service (Sin Bet).

In the 1990s, Cohen served as the director of the Mossad Intelligence Collection Division, serving Israeli military combat operations and overseas covert operations.

In 2011, Cohen was appointed Deputy Director of Mossad and actively supported the work of Director Talmir Pardo - they focused their work on Iran's nuclear development and organized assassinations against Iranian nuclear scientists. .

In August last year, he was appointed as Israel's national security adviser, providing Prime Minister Neta's cabinet with important intelligence and policy advice in the fields of national security and diplomacy.

In early 2016 in the original time and space, Cohen was officially appointed as the director of Mossad. During his tenure, he organized Mossad agents to steal half a ton of nuclear weapons development documents, 50,000 pages of documents and 163 computer hard drives from Iran. .

Now after Mossad Director Talmir Pardo died in this bombing attack, Yossi Cohen was appointed as the acting director of Mossad in advance.