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Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers.The militants murdered three passengers and their intention was either to detonate the aircraft over the Eiffel Tower or the Tour Montparnasse in Paris.
French police investigations into a fatal weekend attack near the Eiffel Tower are looking into the mental health of the suspected assailant who swore allegiance to the Islamic State group before ...
PARIS (Reuters) -A German tourist died and two other people, including a British citizen, were hurt after an attack by a man armed with a knife and hammer near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on ...
President Emmanuel Macron described it as a terrorist attack. [1] Victims. The fatally attacked victim was a young man who was a tourist from the Philippines, ...
France's anti-terrorism prosecutors requested on Wednesday that the man who allegedly fatally stabbed a tourist and wounded two other people over the weekend near the Eiffel Tower be given ...
[255] [258] The Eiffel Tower, a Paris landmark visited by 20,000 people a day, was closed for two days. [ 255 ] [ 259 ] Other venues that were to remain closed included shops and cinemas. [ 255 ] Protests were banned until 19 November, [ 255 ] while bands such as U2 , Foo Fighters , Motörhead , and Coldplay cancelled performances in Paris.
The attack took place near the Eiffel Tower (Peter Byrne/PA France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said on Sunday an investigation into the attack had been opened.
Terrorist incidents map of France (1970–2015). Paris, Corsica and Southwestern France are major places of incidents. A total of 2,616 incidents were plotted. This is a list of terrorist attacks in France from 1800 to the present. Several 19th-century French rulers were targeted in unsuccessful assassination attempts which killed innocent ...