abstract:The Intolerable (Coercive) Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. The acts stripped Massachusetts of self-government and historic rights, triggering outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies.
"Rest assured that French authorities are determined to get to the bottom of these intolerableacts, " French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said, adding that the killings were "surely an execution".