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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 bystanders. Since December 1973, terrorist attacks have been taking place regularly over the country, with more than 400 ...
v. t. e. On 9 January 2015, Amedy Coulibaly, armed with a submachine gun, an assault rifle, and two Tokarev pistols, entered and attacked a Hypercacher kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes in Paris, France. There, Coulibaly murdered four Jewish hostages and held fifteen other hostages during a siege in which he demanded that the Kouachi ...
2015 Thalys train attack. Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe. A Thalys train operating the same route, leaving Brussels-South in June 2014. Location. On board Thalys train 9364 near Oignies, France. Coordinates. 50°27′57″N 2°58′26″E / 50.46583°N 2.97389°E / 50.46583; 2.97389. Date. 21 August 2015.
A series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks [ 14 ][ 15 ] took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 [ 16 ][ 17 ] in Paris, France, and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Beginning at 21:16, three suicide bombers struck outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, during an international football match, after failing to gain entry to the ...
On 13 October 2023, a mass stabbing occurred at the Gambetta-Carnot secondary school in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France. One person was killed, and three others were seriously wounded. The suspect was previously known to the French security services for his involvement with radical Islamism. [citation needed]
3. Injured. 1 (the accused) Motive. Islamic extremism. Accused. Brahim Aouissaoui [1] On the morning of 29 October 2020, three people were killed in a stabbing attack at Notre-Dame de Nice, a Roman Catholic basilica in Nice, France. [2] The alleged attacker, Tunisian man Brahim Aouissaoui, was shot by the police and taken into custody. [3]
On the evening of 11 December 2018, a terrorist attack [1] occurred in Strasbourg, France, when a man attacked civilians in the city's busy Christkindelsmärik (Christmas market) with a revolver and a knife, killing five and wounding 11 before fleeing in a taxi. [2][3][4] Authorities called the shooting an act of terrorism. [5][6] The attacker ...
From 7 to 9 January 2015, terrorist attacks occurred across the Île-de-France region, particularly in Paris. Three attackers killed a total of 17 people in four shooting attacks, and police then killed the three assailants. [ 6][ 7] The attacks also wounded 22 other people. A fifth shooting attack did not result in any fatalities.