List of attacks in Paris
The Paris metropolitan area has repeatedly been the scene of terrorist and other attacks. The following is a list of attacks in the greater Paris area :
- March 10, 1962: Bomb attack in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris, 3 dead, 47 injured.
- September 15, 1974: grenade attack on shop, 2 dead, 34 injured.
- June 26, 1978: Bomb attack in Versailles Palace, 1 injured.
- October 3, 1980: Attack on the synagogue on Rue Copérnic, 4 dead, 46 injured.
- September 24, 1981: Attack on the Turkish consulate, 1 dead, 2 injured.
- April 22, 1982: Car bomb attack on Rue Marbeuf, 1 dead, 60 injured.
- 9 August 1982: Attack on a restaurant on Rue des Rosiers, 6 dead, 22 injured.
- September 17, 1982: Bomb attack on Rue Cardinet, injuring 51 people.
- July 15, 1983: Bomb attack at Paris-Orly airport , 8 dead, 55 injured.
- December 23, 1983: Bomb attack on a restaurant, 12 injured.
- European Space Agency , 6 injured. August 3, 1984: Bomb attack on the headquarters of the
- February 23, 1985: Bomb attack on shopping center, 1 dead, 15 injured.
- March 30, 1985: Bomb attack on the Rivoli Beaubourg cinema, injuring 18.
- Hezbollah is committed to the attack . December 7, 1985: Double bombing of the Printemps Hausmann supermarket in Paris, 43 injured.
- February 3, 1986: Bomb explosion in a shopping mall on the Champs-Élysées, 8 injured. Another bomb is defused at the Eiffel Tower on the same day.
- February 4, 1986: Bomb attack on bookstore, 4 injured.
- February 5, 1986: Bomb attack on bookstore, 9 injured.
- March 20, 1986: Bomb explosion in a shopping mall on the Champs-Élysées, 2 dead, 28 injured. Another bomb is defused on an RER train that same day.
- July 9, 1986: Attack on a police station on Quai de Gesvres, 1 dead, 22 injured.
- Gare de Lyon . September 4, 1986: Bomb found in the RER train at the
- September 8, 1986: Bomb explosion in the post office, 1 dead, 18 injured.
- September 12, 1986: Bomb explosion in a supermarket, injuring 54 people.
- September 14, 1986: Bomb explosion in a restaurant, 2 dead.
- September 15, 1986, bomb explosion in the police prefecture, 1 dead, 56 injured.
- September 17, 1986: Bomb attack on Rue de Rennes, 7 dead, 60 injured.
- November 17, 1986: shooting of the Renault executive Georges Besse by the radical left-wing terrorist organization Action directe .
- December 15, 1986: Failed assassination attempt on Alain Peyrefitte .
- October 22, 1988: Explosives attack on a cinema on Boulevard Saint-Michel , 14 injured. A Catholic group claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that it wanted to protest against the showing of the film The Last Temptation of Christ .
- Rey Maupin incident , 4 dead. October 4, 1994:
- July 25, 1995: Attack in the Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame train station , 8 dead, more than 100 injured.
- August 17, 1995: Bomb attack near the Arc de Triomphe, 16 injured.
- September 3, 1995: Attack on a market in the 11th arrondissement, injuring 3 people.
- Attack near the Maison Blanche metro station, injuring 18. October 6, 1995:
- October 17, 1995: Attack between Orsay and Saint-Michel stations , 30 injured.
- Attack at Port-Royal train station in Paris , 4 dead, 170 injured December 3, 1996:
- March 27, 2002: Nanterre rampage , 12 dead.
- July 14, 2002: Attempted assassination attempt on President Jacques Chirac .
- October 8, 2004: Bomb attack on the Indonesian embassy in Paris, injuring 10. The Front islamique français is committed to the attack.
- March 21, 2012: Another package bomb detonated in front of the Indonesian embassy in Paris that night.
- April 25, 2013: An Islamist assassin injured a French soldier in La Défense by a knife attack. The attack was believed to have been inspired by the Lee Rigby murder three days earlier.
- November 18, 2013: Firearms attack at the newspaper office and bank, 1 injured.
- Charlie Hebdo attack , 12 dead. January 7, 2015:
- Amedy Coulibaly firearms attack in Fontenay-aux-Roses , 1 injured. January 7, 2015:
- Montrouge , 1 dead, 1 injured. January 8, 2015: Another firearm attack by Amedy Coulibaly in
- hostage-taking at the Porte de Vincennes ; Attack on a supermarket kills 4 January 9, 2015:
- April 19, 2015: While preparing to attack two churches in Villejuif, a woman dies when an assassin tries to steal her car. The attack itself is foiled.
- November 13, 2015: Terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris and Saint-Denis , 130 dead, including at least 89 at the Bataclan Theater.
- January 7, 2016: Attack on a police station in Paris on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack. The Tunisian assassin, who lived as an asylum seeker in Germany, is shot while attempting to storm a police station. 1 injured person.
- June 13, 2016: Terrorist attack in Magnanville , 2 dead.
- February 3, 2017: Machete attack on soldiers at the Louvre, 2 injured.
- March 18, 2017: Attacks in Garges-lès-Gonesse and Paris-Orly airport , 2 injured, attackers killed.
- April 20, 2017: Attack in Paris on April 20, 2017 on the Champs-Élysées, 1 dead, 3 injured, attackers killed.
- June 11, 2017: Arson attack on a restaurant in Aubervilliers , 12 injured.
- June 19, 2017: Attack attempt on gendarmes in Paris on June 19, 2017 , no injuries, attackers killed.
- Levallois-Perret , west of Paris. August 9, 2017: An attacker steers his car into a group of soldiers. 6 people were injured in the attack in
- August 14, 2017: In Sept-Sorts near Paris, an attacker drives a car into a pizzeria, killing 1 and injuring 12.
- May 12, 2018: Attack in Paris on May 12, 2018 on the corner of Rue Monsigny and Rue Saint-Augustin in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, 1 dead, 4 injured, attacker killed.
- Attack on the police prefecture of Paris , 4 dead, 1 injured, attackers killed. October 3, 2019:
- Villejuif , 1 dead, 2 injured, attacker killed. January 3, 2020: Knife attack on passers-by in
See also
- List of Islamist attacks in France
- Paris massacre during the 1961 Algerian War