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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 ...
The remaining victims of the attack, François-Michel Saada and Philippe Braham, reportedly immediately sought to resist Coulibaly as well. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Lassana Bathily, a Malian -born Muslim [ 20 ] shop assistant, was also hailed as a hero in the hostage crisis for hiding people from the gunman and assisting police after his escape. [ 21 ]
The murder was one of several attacks in France in recent years and the second terrorist attack in France during the 2020 trial, at which alleged accomplices to the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks were to be arraigned for terrorism targeting the cartoons' publishers. [9]
Video showed the attack slashing at his victims and shouting “in the name of Jesus Christ.”Police have arrested a suspect, who they identified as a 31-year-old Syrian man who came to Europe a ...
El Khanazzi claimed at the trial that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who led the terrorist cell which perpetrated the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks and had been killed in a raid on 18 November 2015, had organized the train attack. [69] [70] Bilal Chatra from Algeria got 27 years in prison with a lifetime ban from returning to French territory. It ...
On November 18, 2013 at 10 a.m., just three days after the initial attack, Dekar entered the headquarters of the Libération newspaper and opened fire. [3] [4] During the attack, a 23-year-old freelance photographer was shot in the arm and chest. The gunman soon left and the victim was rushed to the hospital with critical injuries near his heart.
On the evening of 11 December 2018, a terrorist attack [1] occurred in Strasbourg, France, when a man attacked civilians in the city's busy Christkindelsmärik (Christmas market) with a revolver and a knife, killing five and wounding 11 before fleeing in a taxi. [2] [3] [4] Authorities called the shooting an act of terrorism. [5] [6]
The suspect reportedly shouted "in the name of Jesus Christ" during the attack, [4] although local police later stated that the attack had no terrorist motive. [5] The assailant was forcibly stopped by an intervening Catholic pilgrim known as Henri or "backpack hero" [6] [7] and was then arrested by armed police after shots were fired at him ...