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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 368

France terror attacks

Illustrative: Torch bearer and French BMX world champion Matthias Dandois holds the Olympic flame at the Trocadero in front of the Eiffel Tower during the Olympic torch relay in Paris on July 15, 2024, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)
July 20, 2024, 5:16 pm
French alleged neo-Nazi, suspected of Olympic torch relay plot, jailed for 2 years
19-year-old jailed in swift trial for sharing bomb-making instructions on social media, posts inciting hate, death threats; authorities suspect he wanted to target torch ceremony
By AP
Flowers where a German tourist was stabbed to death by an Islamist, near the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, December 3, 2023. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)
December 4, 2023, 12:49 pm
France admits ‘failure’ in psychiatric care of radical Islamist who killed tourist
Interior minister says that in addition to intel mishap, doctors claimed Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab was ‘doing better’; Paris concerned over attacks ahead of 2024 Olympics
By Stuart Williams
A police officer stands guard at the scene of a stabbing in Paris on December 2, 2023. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)
December 3, 2023, 11:58 pm
Man who killed tourist near Eiffel Tower in Paris had sworn allegiance to ISIS
Authorities say mother of attacker alerted police to unusual behavioral changes in son last month but insufficient proof meant nothing could be done
By Stuart Williams
Police officers stand guard near a security perimeter set up after one person was killed and two others wounded in a knife attack in Paris, on December 2, 2023. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)
December 3, 2023, 3:04 am
Man killed in terror stabbing in Paris; attacker allegedly upset over Gaza war
2 others injured in attack by assailant who interior minister says yelled ‘Allahu Akbar,’ later expressed anguish ‘so many Muslims are dying in Afghanistan and in Palestine’
By Agencies
French police officers stand at the entrance of a metro station after a woman making threats was shot and wounded by police, at the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand station, in Paris, October 31, 2023. (Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP)
October 31, 2023, 7:11 pm
French cops shoot, wound woman making threats, yelling ‘Allahu akbar’ on Paris train
Veiled 38-year-old shouted ‘you will all die’ at passengers, say eyewitnesses; is later shot after ignoring order to remain still, amid heightened tensions due to Israel-Hamas war
By Tiphaine LE LIBOUX
French police officers from the forensic service stand in front of the Gambetta high school in Arras, northeastern France on October 13, 2023, after a teacher was killed and two other people severely wounded in a knife attack, police and regional officials said. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)
October 13, 2023, 11:55 pm
French teacher stabbed to death in ‘Islamist terror’ said linked to Gaza fighting
Three others wounded in attack on school by Chechen-origin man who shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’; suspect had been under surveillance by French domestic intelligence
By Kenan Augeard
In this file photo taken on July 14, 2016, French police officers stand near a truck drove by a terrorist who plowed into a crowd leaving a fireworks display in the French Riviera town of Nice, killing 86 people. (Valery Hache/AFP)
December 13, 2022, 7:46 pm
French court convicts 8 over 2016 Nice terror ramming that killed 86
Two of the defendants given 18-year prison terms for helping Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel carry out attack claimed by Islamic State
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT
"In Memory of our Angels" is engraved on the on the memorial of the victims of the attack of July 14, 2016 with pictures of the victims along Nice's Promenade des Anglais, to commemorate the 2016 terror attack, in Nice, South of France, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. Eight suspects will face trial in a Paris Court on Monday, in connection with the 2016 Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that left 86 people dead. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
September 5, 2022, 3:00 pm
Trial for 2016 Nice terror attack that killed 86 begins in Paris court
Eight people to appear in a special French terrorism court, accused of helping attacker who drove truck into a crowded beachfront on Bastille Day six years ago
By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and Barbara Surk
The truck that slammed into revelers is seen near the site of an attack in the French resort city of Nice, southern France, Friday, July 15, 2016. (AP/Luca Bruno, File)
September 4, 2022, 1:12 pm
Eight suspects to go on trial Monday for Bastille Day terror attacks in Nice
Group accused of assisting driver of truck who plowed through crowd in 2016, killing 86 before he was shot dead by police
By Barbara Surk and NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY
French soldiers on patrol after an incident at the police headquarters in Paris, October 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
September 2, 2022, 1:09 pm
France warns of elevated terror attack threat by jihadists from Iraq, Syria
French prosecutor says danger from extremism has increased in past 2 years, noting Islamic State efforts to reclaim territory and restructure
By AP
Illustrative -- A man stands on a platform at the Gare Saint Lazare train station, in Paris, June 2, 2016 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
November 2, 2021, 3:21 pm
Man with knife shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ shot by Paris Metro guards
Suspect said to be in serious condition; reportedly also yelled ‘France is ruled by the Islamic State’ as he ran toward agents
By AFP and ToI Staff
This court-sketch made in Paris on June 21, 2021, shows Abdalla El Hamahmi, who launched a machete-wielding attack at four French soldiers outside the Louvre Museum's entrances in 2017, standing during his trial at a Paris courthouse. (Benoit Peyrucq/AFP)
June 24, 2021, 11:11 pm
French court sentences Louvre machete assailant to 30 years in prison
Egyptian citizen Abdalla El Hamahmi injured a French soldier during a 2017 attack
By AFP
French police officials block off a street near the police station in Rambouillet, south-west of Paris, on April 23, 2021, after a woman was stabbed to death. (Bertrand Guay/AFP)
April 23, 2021, 6:48 pm
French policewoman stabbed to death in suspected Islamic terror attack
Assailant, a 36-year-old Tunisian man, shot and killed by officers in Rambouillet, southwest of Paris; prosecutors open a ‘terror probe’
By Alice Lefebvre and Tiphaine Liboux
Police arrest a man armed with a knife outside a Jewish school and kosher market in Marseille, France, March 5, 2021 (video screenshot)
March 5, 2021, 12:12 pm
Man wielding knife overpowered outside Jewish school, kosher store in France
School in Marseille locked down as security guards stop armed man trying to enter shop, hand him over to police; authorities boost security for city’s Jewish sites
By ToI Staff and AP
Police detaining a suspect on the platform at the main train station in Arras, northern France, on August 21, 2015, after an armed gunman on the train was overpowered by passengers. (AFP Photo/Courtesy of Christina Catherine Coons)
December 17, 2020, 10:06 pm
Islamic State operative jailed for life over foiled 2015 France train attack
Paris court convicts Moroccan Ayoub El Khazzani for planned terror attack thwarted by passengers, issues sentences of 7-27 years to three accomplices
By Marie DHUMIERES
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