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France terror attacks

A French police officer stands guard in front of the Synagogue of Sarcelles, Paris’s suburb, on October 11, 2023. (Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT/AFP)
July 13, 2026, 8:30 am
Weapons found in car parked near synagogue in Paris Jewish suburb; terror probe launched
Some 300 people evacuated from area after military-grade rifle, handgun found in stolen vehicle; French interior minister says no motives or suspects identified
By AFP
Police officers and others run in front of Jo Goldenberg, a Jewish restaurant and deli, in Paris, after it was attacked by terrorists on August 9, 1982. (AP Photo/ Aulnay)
April 16, 2026, 6:42 pm
PA said to extradite to France key suspect in 1982 Paris antisemitic terror attack
Hicham Harb, suspected of leading gunmen in attack on Jo Goldenberg restaurant in which six were killed, was reportedly arrested by PA forces in September
By Nurit Yohanan and AFP
Customers wait outside of L’As du Fallafel in the historically Jewish Le Marais neighborhood of Paris, July 11, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
July 24, 2025, 9:58 am
‘The shock is gone’: All too used to antisemitism, Parisian Jews weather post-Oct. 7 storm with aplomb
The City of Love’s 300,000-strong Jewish community lives with a mix of ‘vitality and caution,’ having coped with increased Jew-hatred since the turn of the century
By Zev Stub
Nurses and rescue workers carry an injured person into the back of an ambulance after the terror attack on Aug. 9, 1982, on Jewish restaurant and deli, Jo Goldenberg, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/ Aulnay)
July 9, 2025, 8:17 pm
French prosecutors seek trial of Palestinians accused of 1982 attack on Jewish eatery
No suspects were ever tried in the murders of six people 50 years ago at the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in Paris, attributed to the Abu Nidal Palestinian terror group
By Reuters
This photograph shows firefighter (L) and police vehicles near the site of a bladed weapon attack where a man is suspected of killing one person and wounding two municipal police officers in Mulhouse, eastern France on February 22, 2025. (Sebastien Bozon/AFP)
February 23, 2025, 4:59 pm
French authorities arrest four after terror stabbing in country’s east
Portuguese man killed in Saturday attack in city of Mulhouse; France tried 10 times to expel main suspect in Islamic extremist attack to Algeria
By AP
Members of the public stand in front of a photograph depicting French history and geography teacher Samuel Paty as they attend a tribute ceremony in Paris, on October 16, 2021. (Alain Jocard/AFP)
December 21, 2024, 1:25 am
French court convicts 8 people of involvement in 2020 beheading of teacher
Two friends of dead attacker sentenced to 16 years in prison for complicity in murder; father of schoolgirl whose lies sparked killing sentenced to 13 years
By TOM NOUVIAN and Samuel Petrequin
File: A picture of Samuel Paty during the "Samuel Paty" award ceremony, organized by the Association of History and Geography Teachers (APHG), at the Sorbonne university in Paris on October 19, 2024. (Bertrand GUAY / AFP)
November 4, 2024, 7:50 am
Trial set to begin over beheading of French teacher who showed Muhammad cartoons
Eight facing judge on terror charges; main focus of trial is father of Muslim pupil and founder of pro-Hamas group who spread information against Samuel Paty
By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY
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
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