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The Arras school stabbing was a terrorist attack carried out by an Islamist of Ingush origin on 13 October 2023 within the Gambetta-Carnot school in Arras, the capital of the Pas-de-Calais, in the region Hauts-de-France.
The booing was described by BBC as "unprecedented", who commented that it was "a stark warning of how the mood in the country has changed" in comparison to public responses after other recent major terrorist attacks in France. [172] On 21 July, the state of emergency was formally extended until 31 January 2017. [174]
[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]
Following the attack, Turkey asked France to restrict the "anti-Turkish" activity of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), France's ambassador to Turkey was summoned by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, to express Turkey's displeasure with the PKK's "black propaganda" against Turkey.
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 ...
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."
France had been on high alert for terrorism since the Charlie Hebdo shooting and a series of related attacks in January by militants belonging to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, [25] and had increased security in anticipation of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, scheduled to be held in Paris at the beginning of December, as ...
At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured after a terrorist rammed a truck into crowds on the famed Bourbon Street in New Orleans before jumping out and shooting cops — before he was ...