ALEPH has reported a significant excess of four-jet events in the LEP
runs above the Z(0) resonance, which however has not been confirmed by
the other LEP collaborations. We assume here that this excess corresp
onds to a physics signal and try to interpret it in the context of sup
ersymmetric models with R-parity violation. Associated production of a
left and right selectron can explain all the distinctive features of
the ALEPH data: the value of the cross section, the dijet mass differe
nce, the absence of bottom quarks in the final state, and the dijet ch
arge content. Our proposed scenario makes definite predictions, which
can be tested at future LEP runs at higher energies. (C) 1997 Publishe
d by Elsevier Science B.V.