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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 ...
France knife attack: British child among victims injured in playground stabbings Thursday 8 June 2023 14:14 , Eleanor Noyce One of the children injured in a knife attack in a playground in France ...
On 23 December 2022, a mass shooting occurred at three Kurdish locations in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, France. Three people were killed, and three others were wounded in and around a Kurdish cultural center on Rue d'Enghien. [2] [3] Investigators believe the shooting to be an act of right-wing terrorism.
On 1 October 2017, a man killed two women at the Saint-Charles train station in Marseille, France. The women, 20-year-old and 21-year-old cousins, were attacked by an illegal immigrant [1] from Tunisia using a knife. Patrolling soldiers, who had been deployed on national soil following an increase in Islamic terrorist threats, shot him dead at ...
[1] [2] He was born in France in 1997 to Iranian parents who fled the Iranian Revolution in 1979. [1] [2] [3] He acquired French nationality on 20 March 2002, through the collective effort of his parents' naturalization. [4] [5] His birth first name was Iman, but it was changed in 2003. [5]
France had rejected earlier this month an asylum demand made by the man behind the knife attack earlier on Thursday in the French town of Annecy, said French interior minister Gerald Darmanin.
French President Francois Hollande called the incident "a terrorist attack, without a doubt," and "a barbaric act." He also said several other attacks have been thwarted in France "in recent weeks."
The January 2015 Île-de-France attacks and November 2015 Paris attacks killed a total of 157 people, almost all of them civilians. [2] [3] By 2018, France was the European nation most affected by terrorist attacks inspired or directed by IS. In 2017 the majority of attacks were directed at police and soldiers, rather than civilians. [4]