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[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]
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 ...
Nearly 1,000 people have been arrested across France overnight as police have claimed they are “at war” while the family of a teenager shot dead by an officer prepared for his funeral on Saturday.
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.
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 ...
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad condemned the attacks, but added that France's support for Syrian rebel groups had contributed to the spread of terrorism. [284] France had been a particularly vocal opponent of Assad during the Syrian civil war. [285]
Islamist terrorist Redouane Lakdim shoots and stabs four people to death. 2018 Strasbourg attack: 11 December 2018: Strasbourg: 5 (+12 injured) Chérif Chekatt (29 years old) Islamist terrorist Chérif Chekatt shoots five people to death with a revolver and injures several people by stabbing with a knife.
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 ]