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.........................July 14, 2016: A yet-to-be identified driver ploughed a truck into a mass of Bastille Day spectators and fired rounds at them along the famed Promenade des Anglais seafront in Nice. At least 80 people were killed and many more wounded.
June 13, 2016: Convicted terrorist Larossi Abballa stabs two married police officers in their home in Magnanville in an attack claimed by IS. Abballa holds the couple’s three-year-old son hostage and live streams the murder of his parents to Facebook before police storm the home and rescue the child.
November 13, 2015: IS terrorists simultaneously attack public sites in Paris, killing 130 and wounding more than 350 in the worst attack on France’s soil since World War II. IS claims responsibility, calling the attacks the “first of the storm.”
August 21, 2015: Ayoub El Kahzani boards a Thalys train from Amsterdam to France armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, pistol, ammunition, and a box cutter. Two US servicemen and two Europeans observed the suspect preparing to attack and intervened, preventing the suspect from inflicting what French President Francois Hollande said could have been “a true carnage.” El Kahzani was kept on an international watch list and had reportedly travelled to Syria in 2014.
April 19, 2015: Algerian extremist Sid Ahmed Glam attempts to gun down a church in the suburbs of Paris.
June 26, 2015: Yassine Salhi, drives into an American-owned gas factory in southeastern France.
He throws gas canisters in the yard outside, and decapitates a man (Salhi’s boss), covering the victim’s head in the Muslim declaration of faith, “There is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet.” A flag emblazoned with Islamist inscriptions is found at the site of the attack.
January 7, 2015 — January 9, 2015: Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi launch a deadly assault on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 in the name of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). The Charlie Hebdo attack is the deadliest on French soil in more than 50 years. In the days following the attack, gunman Amedy Coulibaly goes on a shooting rampage, killing a policewoman before taking and killing hostages at a kosher supermarket in the name of IS.
May 24, 2014: French-born jihadist Mehdi Nemmouche kills four at a Jewish Museum in Brussels.
May 25, 2013: Muslim convert and Islamist Alexandre Dhaussy stabs a French soldier in a suburb of Paris.
March 2012: Gunman Mohammed Merah goes on shooting spree in southern France, killing seven.
November 2, 2011: Charlie Hebdo offices are firebombed.
2009 — 2011: Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) kidnaps a number of French citizens.
Sources: Christian Science Monitor, National, Al Arabiya, France24
October 2002: A bomb explodes next to a French tanker in Yemen, killing one crew member.
May 2002: A bomb explodes in Karachi, killing 11 French navy experts.
December 3, 1996: A bomb explodes at Port Royal station in Paris, killing two and wounding seven.
October 1995: On October 6, a bomb explodes at a metro station in Paris, injuring 12.
On October 17, a bomb explodes in a train in Paris, injuring 29.
September 1995: On September 3, a bomb explodes in an open-air market in Paris, injuring four.
On September 4, police find an unexploded bomb in a public toilet in Charles Vallin square in Paris. On September 7, a car bomb explodes near a Jewish school in Lyons, wounding 14.
August 1995: On August 17, GIA bombs Paris’s Arc de Triomphe, wounding 17.
On August 26, police find an unexploded bomb on a railway track near Lyons.
July 1995: On July 11, The GIA assassinates Muslim cleric Abdelbaki Sahraoui at a mosque in northern Paris.
On July 25, a bomb claimed by the GIA explodes at the Saint-Michel metro station in Paris, killing eight and injuring around 150.
December 24, 1994: The GIA hijacks Air France Flight 8969 and kills three hostages before France’s GIGN storm the aircraft in Marseilles, freeing the remaining passengers.
1983: Hezbollah bombs French Marine Barracks in Beirut, killing 58 French service members.
August 1982: Gunmen open fire and throw grenades at a restaurant in the Jewish quarter of Paris, killing six and wounding 22.
June 18, 1961: The OAS bombs a train, killing 28............
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