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Prairie Gates

(4,485 posts)
Mon Nov 13, 2023, 10:07 AM Nov 2023

Eight Years ago Today: 90 Killed in Attack on Bataclan Concert Hall, Paris

131 killed in total across multiple Paris attacks. Nearly 500 wounded. November 13, 2015.

It's important to remember that these were also mass shootings.

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Eight Years ago Today: 90 Killed in Attack on Bataclan Concert Hall, Paris (Original Post) Prairie Gates Nov 2023 OP
And just who carried out the Bataclan terror? comradebillyboy Nov 2023 #1
Uh Prairie Gates Nov 2023 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Polybius Nov 2023 #5
Islamic Terror has (mostly) faded away in France. maxsolomon Nov 2023 #3
Cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia article on ISIS-affiliated terror in France Autumn_Angler Nov 2023 #4
Awful, but certainly less spectacular. maxsolomon Nov 2023 #6

comradebillyboy

(10,633 posts)
1. And just who carried out the Bataclan terror?
Mon Nov 13, 2023, 11:18 AM
Nov 2023

Why it was those Islamic State terrorists who are best buddies with the Hamas terrorists.

Response to comradebillyboy (Reply #1)

maxsolomon

(36,088 posts)
3. Islamic Terror has (mostly) faded away in France.
Mon Nov 13, 2023, 12:50 PM
Nov 2023

I'm not sure if it's the impact of the Migrant Crisis, or that ISIS pulled most of the young Muslim radicals out of the Banlieues into Syria.

The Bataclan attacks were absolutely horrific - and there were very few to punish. Certainly nowhere to invade in response.

 

Autumn_Angler

(44 posts)
4. Cut-and-pasted from Wikipedia article on ISIS-affiliated terror in France
Mon Nov 13, 2023, 01:21 PM
Nov 2023

These all happened after the 2015 attacks, and they omit all instances of non-ISIS Islamic terror attacks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_affiliated_terrorist_attacks_in_France

2016
On 1 January 2016, a 29-year-old Frenchman of Tunisian descent rammed over a civilian and a guard in an entrance of a mosque in Valence, Drôme, reportedly while chanting, "Allahu Akbar!" He then put his car into reverse to try to ram the soldiers again who fired warning shots and then fired to disable the driver. The driver said he wanted to kill troops because "troops killed people" and that he wanted to be killed by the troops.[failed verification][9]

On 7 January 2016, an asylum seeker shouted "Allahu Akbar!" outside a police station in Goutte d'Or, near Montmartre, where police shot and killed him while a passerby was shot. Reports say he was wielding a knife and fake suicide vest.[citation needed]

On 11 January 2016, a 15-year-old Turkish boy attacked a teacher from a Jewish school in Marseille with a machete, apparently attempting to decapitate him. The student told police that he had committed the act "in the name of Allah and ISIS".[10][11]

On 27 May 2016, a French military person was left in "serious condition" after being attacked with knives in Saint-Julien-du-Puy (Tarn). The member of the military was approached by two men who "have criticized the French bombing in Syria." He was then beaten with fists and beaten cutter.[clarification needed][citation needed]

On 13 June 2016, in the 2016 Magnanville stabbing, a police officer and his wife, a police secretary, were stabbed to death in their home in Magnanville, France, located about 55 km (34 mi) west of Paris, by a man convicted in 2013 of associating with a group planning terrorist acts. Amaq News Agency, an online outlet said to be linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),[12] said that a source had claimed that ISIL was behind the attack.[13]

On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19 tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people and the injuries of 434 others. On 16 July, two agencies linked to Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.[14]

On 26 July 2016, in the 2016 Normandy church attack, two assailants killed the priest Jacques Hamel and seriously wounded a woman in a church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray.[15] The two assailants were killed by French Special Forces. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.[16][17]

2017
On 3 February 2017, in the 2017 Louvre machete attack, an Egyptian national in France on a tourist visa was shot as he rushed a group of French soldiers guarding a principal entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, attacking and injuring one soldier with a machete.[18] The soldiers were patrolling the Museum as part of Opération Sentinelle, guarding the Carrousel du Louvre.[19][20] Immediately after his arrest, the suspect told authorities that he was carrying spray paint in order to deface the museum's artwork, an act that he regarded as a "symbolic" attack on France.[failed verification][21][22][23][24]

On 18 March 2017, in the March 2017 Île-de-France attacks, a pair of terrorist attacks by the same individual occurred in Garges-lès-Gonesse, an outer suburb of Paris, and Orly Airport near Paris. The attacker, a 39-year-old man identified as Ziyed Ben Belgacem,[25] was shot dead after attempting to seize a weapon from a soldier patrolling the airport under Opération Sentinelle.[failed verification][26]

On 20 April 2017, in the 2017 shooting of Paris police officers, three police officers were shot by an attacker wielding an AK-47 rifle on the Champs-Élysées, a shopping boulevard in Paris, France. One officer was killed and two others, along with a female tourist, were seriously wounded. The attacker was then shot dead by police. ISIL claimed responsibility.[27][28]

On 6 June 2017, in the 2017 Notre Dame attack, a lone attacker assaulted a police officer at Notre-Dame de Paris. The officer and the attacker, a 40-year-old Algerian graduate student who had left a video pledging allegiance to ISIL, were both injured.[29][30][31]

2018
On 23 March 2018, the Carcassonne and Trèbes attack was conducted by a lone attacker who pledged allegiance to ISIL.[32] Four persons and the attacker were killed and 25 injured.[33]

On 11 December 2018, in the 2018 Strasbourg attack, a 29-year-old French citizen of Algerian origin killed five civilians and wounded 11 others at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, before being killed in a shootout with police two days later.

2019
On 24 May 2019, in the 2019 Lyon bomb attack, a packet bomb exploded in front of a bakery in the pedestrian zone of Lyon. 13 people were wounded. A 24-year old male student from Algeria was arrested three days later. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.[as of?]

On 3 October 2019, in the Paris police headquarters stabbing, a radicalized Islamist stabbed four people to death, and injured two others at the central police headquarters in Paris. He was an administrative worker and had been recently converting to Salafist Islam. The perpetrator was shot instantly dead by other officers.

2020
On 4 April 2020 in the 2020 Romans-sur-Isère knife attack, two people were killed and five others wounded in a mass stabbing in Romans-sur-Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The suspect is a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker who was arrested at the scene. French police have launched a terrorism investigation. Two other people related to the attacker were arrested later.

On 27 April 2020, two police officers were seriously injured when a driver rammed his vehicle into them in Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine. The perpetrator was arrested, and a source stated that the man carried out the attack to "avenge events in Palestine". The attacker had pledged allegiance to Islamic State.

maxsolomon

(36,088 posts)
6. Awful, but certainly less spectacular.
Mon Nov 13, 2023, 01:32 PM
Nov 2023

Were the 2020 attacks the last listed?

I forgot to include Covid in my speculation - the last attack is right in the middle of the ramp-up.

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