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The attack came two months after another attack on the Champs-Élysées in April, in which three police officers and a tourist were shot by a man wielding an AK-47, killing one police officer. [1] The Islamic State has encouraged the targeting of police and soldiers on the grounds that they represent the state.
The attack was part of a series of terrorist attacks in France since November 2015, about half of which targeted police of the military patrols that appeared in the streets of France with the imposition of the state of emergency that had been in continuous effect since the November 2015 Paris attacks. [7] [14] The site of the attack, Levallois ...
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 ...
On 20 April 2017, three French National Police officers were shot by Karim Cheurfi, a French national wielding an AK-47 rifle on the Champs-Élysées boulevard in Paris.One officer, French National Police Captain Xavier Jugelé, was killed and two other French National Police officers and a German tourist were seriously wounded.
France riots - live: Mayor claims protesters ‘try to assassinate his family’ in fifth night of violence Tara Cobham,Bel Trew and Maroosha Muzaffar July 2, 2023 at 3:49 AM
A 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a teacher and gravely wounded two other people in an attack at a school in the northern France city of Arras on Friday that President Emmanuel Macron condemned as ...
Attal said in a post on X that the decision, which comes months before Paris hosts the Olympic Games, was taken "in light of the Islamic State's claiming responsibility for the (Moscow) attack and ...
A terrorist attack took place on 26 June 2015 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon, France, when a man, Yassin Salhi (Arabic: يَاسِين صَالِحِيّ), decapitated his employer Hervé Cornara and drove his van into gas cylinders at a gas factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier near Lyon, France, which caused an explosion that injured two other people.