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A man shot five people at a restaurant with a rifle, killing one, then fled to a shipping company, where he killed two people. He surrendered later. [118] March 1970: Les Mureaux, Île-de-France: 2 [n 1] 2 4: A man shot three police officers with a shotgun, killing one, before shooting himself to death. [119]
Charlie Hebdo (French for Charlie Weekly) is a French satirical weekly newspaper that features cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes.The publication, irreverent and stridently non-conformist in tone, is strongly secularist, antireligious, [6] and left-wing, publishing articles that mock Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, and various other groups as local and world news unfolds.
Train derailed by OAS explosive, killing up to 28. Paris massacre of 1961: 17 October 1961: Paris 40 (government sources) ~200 (opposition sources) French police Algerian demonstrators killed by French police. The Charonne Metro Station Massacre: 8 February 1962: Charonne: 9 French police CGT Trade union members and communists killed by French ...
France had been on high alert since the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo offices and a Jewish supermarket in Paris that killed 17 people. [ 25 ] The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attacks (as they had done with the Beirut attacks a day prior), [ 11 ] [ 12 ] saying that it was retaliation for ...
The anarchist Émile Henry placed a bomb at the offices of the Carmaux Mining Company, killing five police officers after it was discovered and transported to a police station. [10] 9 December 1893: Bombing 0 1 The anarchist Auguste Vaillant threw a home-made bomb into the French Chamber of Deputies from the public gallery, injuring one deputy ...
The events in France following the death of a 17-year-old shot by police in a Paris suburb are drawing parallels to the racial reckoning in the U.S. spurred by the killings of George Floyd and ...
The massacre took place in the context of the Algerian War (1954–62), which had become increasingly violent. After Charles de Gaulle's return to power during the May 1958 crisis and his sudden change of policy on Algerian independence, the OAS (The Organisation armée secrète, Secret Army Organisation, was a far-right French dissident paramilitary and terrorist organisation [12]) used all ...
The government has said ‘all options’ are on the table to restore order after a third night of violence in cities around the country. Anthony Cuthbertson reports from Nanterre, the Paris ...