List of Islamist attacks in France

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The list of Islamist attacks in France includes the most well-known events of Islamist terrorism in France , which are understood as the terrorist attacks that have been going on in France since 1984 and that have reignited since the attack on Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015. As a result of these attacks, the state of emergency in France was extended six times and then legally established.

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  • On February 8, 1984, a Hezbollah militia assassin killed the Iranian general Gholam Ali Oveissi and his brother in central Paris , and their driver was also wounded. It was the first Islamist-motivated attack in France.
  • On December 24, 1994, hijacked Groupe Islamique arms to Air France Flight 8969 . Four kidnappers and three civilians died and 25 people were injured, including nine gendarmes from the GIGN special unit . The goal of the hijackers was to crash the plane over Paris.
  • On July 25, 1995, a nail-filled device exploded at Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame train station , killing seven people and injuring another 150. It was part of a series of attacks that the GIA claimed .
  • On December 3, 1996 , a gas canister filled with nails exploded on a train in Paris . 3 people died and 85 others were injured. It is believed that the attack was also carried out by the GIA, which had carried out several attacks in Paris the year before.
  • On March 11-19 , 2012 , the assassin Mohamed Merah shot and killed seven people and injured five others in Toulouse and Montauben . The first attack was directed against soldiers and resulted in three deaths, the second attack on a Jewish school killed four people, including three children.
  • On December 20, 2014, an attacker armed with a knife stormed a police station in Joue-les-Tours and injured 3 police officers.
  • On January 7, 2015 , gunmen stormed the building of Charlie Hebdo magazine and killed twelve people; the attackers professed their support for al-Qaeda in Yemen .
  • On the morning of January 8, 2015, an assassin shot and killed the 26-year-old city police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe and seriously injured a city employee.
  • On January 9, 2015 , an armed man holed himself up in the kosher Hyper Cache supermarket, killed four people and took others hostage. The attacker was killed when he stormed the supermarket.
  • On February 3, 2015, a man attacked soldiers with a knife in front of a Jewish facility. Three soldiers were injured in the attack.
  • On April 19, 2015, an assassination attempt in Villejuif in which an Algerian tried to attack several churches failed . A woman died while trying to steal her car.
  • On 26 June 2015 the Islamist Yassin Salhi attacked the manufacturing facilities in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier from Air Products & Chemicals on. One person died and two others were injured in the attack.
  • On August 21, 2015 , the assassin Ayoub El Khazzani, armed with a Kalashnikov and several stabbing weapons , stormed a Thalys train . But he was overwhelmed by passengers.
  • On November 13, 2015, there was a series of attacks in Paris , in which 130 people were killed and another 352 injured. It was the most devastating attack in France to date. Immediately after the attacks, the French air force launched attacks in Syria for the first time. In addition, the French government moved the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to the Syrian coast.
  • On January 1, 2016, a Frenchman of Tunisian descent rammed a civilian and a security guard in Valence , both of whom were injured. The assassin was then shot dead by soldiers as he approached them.
  • On January 7, 2016, an attacker attacked police officers with a machete in a police station in Paris . A police officer was injured and the attacker shot.
  • On January 11, 2016, a 15-year-old Turkish boy tried to behead a Jewish teacher in Marseille .
  • On May 27, 2016, a soldier in Saint-Julien-du-Puy was critically injured by knife wounds and fist blows. The French military said the soldier was attacked by two men who had previously criticized the French air strikes in Syria.
  • On July 14, 2016 , the assassin Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a truck into a crowd on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, killing 85 people and injuring 434 others.
  • During the European Football Championship in 2016 , there was a terrorist attack in Magnanville in which two police officers were stabbed to death.
  • On July 26, 2016, in the attack in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, the priest Jacques Hamel was murdered during mass by two assassins who professed to support IS .
  • On August 19, 2016, a Jewish man was injured with a knife in Strasbourg . The attacker is said to have called Allahu Akbar .
  • On September 4, 2016, Bilal Taghi injured two guards in an Osny prison .
  • On February 3, 2017, an attacker armed with a machete attacked several soldiers at the Carrousel du Louvre . One soldier and the attacker were injured.
  • On March 18, 2017, there was an attack at Paris-Orly Airport in which an attacker tried to snatch an assault rifle from a soldier; The soldier was injured and the attacker killed in the attempt.
  • On April 20, 2017 , an Islamist attacked a police bus with a Kalashnikov and killed a police officer. The assassin died in the subsequent shooting with the police, and two police officers and a German tourist were injured.
  • On June 6, 2017, a 40-year-old Algerian attacked and injured a police officer with a hammer in front of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral . The attacker was shot by another police officer and was thereby stopped.
  • On October 1, 2017, a man killed two civilians outside the Marseille-Saint-Charles train station in Marseille before being killed by soldiers.
  • On March 23, 2018 , a 26-year-old man took several hostages in a supermarket in Trèbes near the southern French city of Carcassonne after stealing a car in Carcassonne and killing its occupant. The perpetrator was shot dead by the police. Two hostages were killed and two others injured.
  • On May 12, 2018 , an assassin in Paris stabbed one person near the Opera and injured four others before being shot by police officers.
  • On December 11, 2018 , a 29-year-old man shot a handgun at passers-by at the Christmas market in Strasbourg and stabbed others with a knife. Five people were killed and twelve injured, some seriously, in the attack. After a two-day escape, the assassin was shot dead by police officers.
  • On October 3, 2019 , a French police officer who converted to Islam stabbed three men and a woman to death before being shot by a police officer. The man had previously worked for the police as a computer scientist for years, had contacts with radical Salafists and had spoken to a colleague that he agreed to the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine .
  • On April 5, 2020, a Sudanese stabbed two people in Romans-sur-Isère and injured five others, an Islamist motive is suspected.

See also

Individual evidence

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  22. ^ Louvre attack: Suspect 'confirms' he is Egyptian Abdullah Hamamy. In: BBC News . February 7, 2017. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Orly airport: Man killed after seizing soldier's gun. In: BBC News. March 18, 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2017 .
  24. ↑ Fatal attack on police officers: IS claims attack in Paris for itself. In: n-tv . April 21, 2017. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
  25. ↑ Chief investigator: The hammer attack in front of Notre-Dame was a terrorist attack . In: Münchner Merkur . June 10, 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
  26. ↑ Marseille: IS claims fatal attack for itself . In: Spiegel Online . October 2, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
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  30. ↑ New investigation results: Attacker from Paris was supporter of a radical Islam , WeltN24, October 5, 2019.
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