page_title: Carlton Tower and Portman Hotel shootings
section_title: Incident
hierarchical_section_title: Carlton Tower and Portman Hotel shootings / Incident
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Pistolet maszynowy Sten Mk II English: Sten Mk II submachine gun Aparat/Camera: Canon PowerShot A75 Polski: To zdjęcie zostało wykonane w Muzeum im. Orła Białego w Skarżysku-Kamiennej English: This picture was taken in The White Eagle Museum in Skarżysko-Kamienna Deutsch: Dieses Foto ist gemacht in das Weißer Adler Museum in Skarżysko-Kamienna
context_page_description: On the 19 January 1975 the Provisional IRA's Balcombe Street Gang carried out two separate gun attacks on hotels in London, England. It was the first attack of 1975 carried out by IRA unit who had been responsible for the Woolwich pub bombing & Guildford pub bombings which resulted in the deaths of seven people just a few months earlier. In total 12 people were injured from both attacks.
context_section_description: The first attack was carried out on the Portman Hotel in Portman Square, the IRA team headed by  Eddie Butler drove slowly by the hotel and fired approximately 20 rounds of 9mm ammunition into the hotel using a Sten Submachine gun. Two hours later another IRA team drove by the Carlton Tower Hotel located along Cadogan Place, Knightsbridge and fired shots into it this time with an M1 carbine. Four people were injured in this attack mainly from flying glass.
  At first people believed the attacks might have been motivated by anti‐Semitism as both hotels were owned by Jewish businessmen. But police believed it to be the work of the Provisional IRA who carried out a similar shooting attack a month earlier in December 1974 against the Churchill Hotel also in Portman Square in which three people were injured.
caption: A Sten submachine gun like the one used to shoot at the Portman Hotel by the IRA, in January 1975
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