Terrorism in France#Terrorism and mental illness

|+Deaths and Injuries due to Terrorist incidents in France by YearNational Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. (2017). Global Terrorism Database ([https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/contact/ globalterrorismdb_0617dist.xlsx]). Retrieved from https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd University of MarylandNational Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. (2017). Global Terrorism Database ([https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/contact/ gtd1993_0617dist.xlsx]). Retrieved from https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd University of Maryland

! Year !! Number of
incidents !! Deaths !! Injuries

| style="text-align:center;"|15 September 1958

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|3

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|FLN (Algerian nationalists)

|– Government institutions

:Several gunmen fire into the car of the French Minister of Information, Jacques Soustelle. The minister survives unharmed, however four bystanders are struck and one is killed.{{cite book|title=Terrorism: The second or anti-colonial wave|date=2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780415316521|pages=244–245|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-r5Q2705HAC&q=fln+attack&pg=PA243|editor=David C. Rapoport}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Marne (department)|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Blacy, Marne

| style="text-align:center;"|28

| style="text-align:center;"|100+

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|Organisation armée secrète

|– Private citizens & property

:A bomb attack on a Strasbourg–Paris train carried: it was the deadliest terrorist attack in modern French history until the November 2015 Paris attacks.{{cite news |title=L'attentat le plus meurtrier depuis Vitry-Le-François en 1961 |language=fr |trans-title=The deadliest attack since Vitry-Le-François in 1961 |first=Marie-Estelle |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2015/01/07/01016-20150107ARTFIG00178-historique-des-attentats-en-france-depuis-1994.php |last=Pech |work=Le Figaro |date=7 January 2015 |access-date=7 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109121648/http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2015/01/07/01016-20150107ARTFIG00178-historique-des-attentats-en-france-depuis-1994.php |archive-date=9 January 2015 |df=dmy }} ()

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Marseille

| style="text-align:center;"|4

| style="text-align:center;"|20

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|Charles
Martel Group

|– Diplomatic (Algeria)

:A man exits a car and throws a bomb into the compound of the Algerian Consulate; the subsequent explosion kills 4 and injures 20 more, 4 seriously.{{cite news|title=Bomb at Algerian Consulate|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19731215&id=jItAAAAAIBAJ&pg=4570,2956030|access-date=8 February 2014|newspaper=The Glasgow Herald|date=15 December 1973|agency=Associated Press}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|34

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|PFLP (Palestinian nationalists)

|– Private Citizens & Property

:A bomb explodes at the Drugstore Saint Germain, part of the fashionable circuit of restaurants and bars on Paris's Left Bank, killing two and injuring 34.{{cite news|last=Guinness|first=Molly|title=Carlos the Jackal's Parisian trail of destruction|url=http://www.english.rfi.fr/visiting-france/20101104-carlos|access-date=9 February 2014|newspaper=Radio France International|date=4 November 2010}}

| style="text-align:center;"|24 October 1975

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"

| style="text-align:center;"|ASALA (Armenian nationalists)

|– Diplomatic (Turkish)

:As İsmail Erez is returning from a reception – and as his vehicle approached the building of the Turkish Embassy in Paris – a group of 3–4 armed Armenian militants ambush the automobile, killing him and his driver Talip Yener.{{cite book |last1=Rubin |first1=Barry M. |last2=Rubin |first2=Judith Colp |date=2008 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RIwBFpBi5noC |title=Chronologies of Modern Terrorism |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |isbn=9780765622068 |page=69}}{{cite web|title=Assassinated Turkish Diplomats/Officials and Their Families Serving in Missions Abroad|url=http://www.mfa.gov.tr/sehit-edilen-diplomatlarimiz-ve-vatandaslarimiz.en.mfa|publisher=Republic of Turkey: Ministry of Foreign Affairs|access-date=10 February 2014}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|4

| style="text-align:center;"|3

| style="text-align:center;"|Grenade & Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|PFLP (Palestinian nationalists)

|– Airports & airlines

:Three terrorists open fire on El Al passengers in the departure lounge. All three terrorists are killed, along with one policeman, and three French tourists are also injured.{{cite news|title=3 Terrorists Killed in Attack in Paris on El Al Passengers; 3 French Tourists Bound for Israel Are Injured and One Policeman Is Killed in 25-Minute Fight|date=21 May 1978|first=Flora|last=Lewis |author-link=Flora Lewis |work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/21/archives/3-terrorists-killed-in-attack-in-paris-on-el-al-passengers-3-french.html|access-date=9 October 2011}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Marseille

| style="text-align:center;"|9

| style="text-align:center;"|12

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|

|– Private citizens & property

:At about 21:00 (UTC+1), three hooded men armed with sub machine guns enter a quiet neighborhood bar and shoot 21 patrons, killing nine. The attack at Le Telephone bar was likely related to organized crime, although none of the attackers were identified.{{cite news|title=Gangsters In France Gun Down Nine Rivals|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19781005&id=wO08AAAAIBAJ&pg=2316,1608879|access-date=14 February 2014|newspaper=Bangor Daily News|date=5 October 1978}}

| style="text-align:center;"|23 December 1979

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"

| style="text-align:center;"|ASALA (Armenian nationalists)

|– Diplomatic (Turkish)

:A gunman fires an automatic weapon amid crowds of Christmas shoppers, killing the director of the Turkish National Tourist Office, Yilmaz Colton, in Paris. The director was struck by three bullets while walking along the Champs-Élysées.{{cite news|title=Turkish official murdered in Paris|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19791224&id=UJEjAAAAIBAJ&pg=5613,1211560|access-date=17 February 2014|newspaper=The Montreal Gazette|agency=Reuters |date=23 December 1979}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|8

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"| 

|– Diplomatic (Syrian)

:A bomb blast destroys the ground floor of the Syrian Embassy, killing one and injuring 8 others. Three of those injured were in a serious condition, including a pregnant woman. The attack happened 2 hours before the arrival of then Foreign Minister of Syria, Abdel Halim Khaddam, in France.{{cite news|title=Syrian Embassy In Paris Ripped By Bomb Blast|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1979&dat=19800129&id=LIQiAAAAIBAJ&pg=3483,3407007|access-date=12 February 2014|newspaper=The Sumter Daily Item|date=29 January 1980|author=Staff writers|agency=Associated Press}}

| style="text-align:center;"|17 July 1980

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|4

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|Guards of Islam
(Iranian agents)

|– Government institutions (Shah of Iran)

:Former Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar escapes an assassination attempt in which a French policeman and a female neighbour are killed. Four other officers were wounded, one seriously. Allegedly posing as reporters, a trio of gunmen attempted to enter the exiled leader's apartment in Neuilly, a suburb of Paris. A police guard at an armored door to the residence resisted and a gunfight took place.{{cite news|last=Treuthardt|first=Paul|title=Bakhtiar Escapes Assassination Attempt In Paris|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1899&dat=19800718&id=oF0gAAAAIBAJ&pg=4896,2116343|access-date=14 February 2014|newspaper=The Lewiston Journal|date=18 July 1980}}{{cite news|title=Two Killed In Attempt, Bakhtiar Escapes Assassination Try|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1696&dat=19800717&id=HdIdAAAAIBAJ&pg=4832,2531982|access-date=14 February 2014|newspaper=Daily News|date=17 July 1980|author=Staff writers|agency=Associated Press}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Rhône-Alpes|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Lyon

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|11

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|ASALA (Armenian nationalists)

|– Diplomatic (Turkish)

:Two gunmen storm the Turkish Consulate General in Lyon. The gunmen are unable to locate the Turkish consul general and open fire on the waiting area, killing two people and wounding eleven others, two seriously.{{harvnb|Rubin|Rubin|2008|p=77}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|4

| style="text-align:center;"|40

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|-

|– Religious figures & institutions

:A bomb went off outside the Union Libérale Israélite de France synagogue on Rue Copernic. The bomb had been hidden in the saddlebags of a motorcycle parked outside the synagogue on the eve of Simchat Torah. The explosion happened shortly before the end of services, however one of those killed were members of the congregation. French police initially suspected that the attack had been carried out by neo-Nazis, but later attributed it to the PFLP or one of its offshoots.{{cite news | title =Bomb Kills 3 in Antwerp | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u9gxAAAAIBAJ&pg=6130,7097355&dq=antwerp+synagogue+bombing&hl=en | newspaper = The Reading Eagle |agency=UPI | date = 1981-10-20 }}{{cite news|last=Cobb|first=Chris|title=Paris blast, Part 1: The Explosion|url=https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Special+feature+EXPLOSION/3786367/story.html|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|date=9 November 2010}}{{cite news|last=Cobb|first=Chris|title=Paris blast, Part 2: The Aftermath|url=https://ottawacitizen.com/business/Special+Series+AFTERMATH/3789865/story.html|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|date=9 November 2010}}{{cite news|last=Cobb|first=Chris|title=Paris blast, Part 3: The Investigation|url=https://montrealgazette.com/news/Special+Series+INVESTIGATION/3792139/story.html|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|date=9 November 2010}}

{{See also|1980 Paris synagogue bombing}}

| style="text-align:center;"|25 November 1980

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|-

|– Private citizens & property

:An unknown gunman murders the Jewish owners of a Paris travel agency that specialized in tours to Israel. The assailant walked into the office of IT-Tours and fired from an automatic pistol, fatally wounding Edwin Douek, the proprietor. His wife, Michele, was killed instantly and a clerk was slightly wounded. Edwin Douek died of his wounds later in a hospital.{{cite news|title=Terrorists kill 2 in Paris|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19801201&id=oI4sAAAAIBAJ&pg=4056,97012|access-date=14 February 2014|newspaper=Lakeland Ledger|date=1 December 1980}}

| style="text-align:center;"|4 March 1981

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|ASALA (Armenian nationalists)

|– Diplomatic (Turkish)

:Two gunmen open fire on Turkish Labour Attache, Resat Morali, and the Religious Affairs Officer in the Turkish Embassy, Tecelli Ari. Both are killed.{{cite book|title=Terrorist Group Profiles|date=1989|publisher=DIANE Publishing|isbn=9781568068640|pages=34–35|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=55BZmIJ9xd8C&q=bomb+rome+turkish+1980&pg=PA34}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire – Hostage taking

(2 days)

| style="text-align:center;"|ASALA (Armenian nationalists)

|– Diplomatic (Turkish)

:At about 11:30 CET, four members of Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia took over the consulate killing a Turkish guard, wounding the Turkish Consul and taking 56 people hostage, including 8 women and a 3-year-old child.

:Shortly after midnight, the militants' leader started the negotiations that led to the end of the ordeal at about 2 a.m. He was promised by French authorities that the four militants would receive political asylum. The next day, however, the French Government issued a statement saying that the men would have to stand trial on charges growing out of the assault, including the death of a Turkish guard.Frank J. Prial (25 September 1981), [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/25/world/60-held-15-hours-in-a-siege-in-paris.html "60 held 15 hours in a siege in Paris"]. The New York Times.

{{See also|1981 Turkish consulate attack in Paris}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Limousin|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Ambazac

| style="text-align:center;"|5

| style="text-align:center;"|27

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|Carlos the Jackal

|– Transport

:A explosion on a Paris-Toulouse express train kills five passengers and injures 27 near Ambazac. The blast in the baggage compartment of the Capitole Express was caused by several pounds of extremely powerful explosives, intentionally planted. In 2011 Carlos the Jackal was tried for involvement in the attack and was subsequently convicted and sentenced to life in prison.{{cite news|title=Blast on French Train Is Attributed to a Bomb |agency=UPI |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/31/world/around-the-world-blast-on-french-train-is-attributed-to-a-bomb.html|access-date=7 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=31 October 1982}}{{cite news|last=Clark|first=Nicola|title=Carlos the Jackal Goes on Trial for Bombings in France|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/world/europe/carlos-the-jackal-goes-on-trial-for-bombings-in-france.html?ref=ilichramirezcarlosthejackalsanchez|access-date=7 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=7 November 2011}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|47

| style="text-align:center;"|Car bomb

| style="text-align:center;"|Carlos the Jackal

|– Political

:A powerful car bomb detonates in a crowded street in central Paris during the morning rush hour, killing a young woman and injuring 46 people. The apparent target are the offices of the Libyan newspaper Al-Watan al-Arabi. In 2011 Carlos the Jackal is tried for involvement in the attacks and is subsequently convicted and sentenced to life in prison.{{cite news|last=Tanner|first=Henry|title=Bomb in Paris Kills 1; 2 Syrians Ousted|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/23/world/bomb-in-paris-kills-1-2-syrians-ousted.html|access-date=7 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=23 April 1982}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|6

| style="text-align:center;"|22

| style="text-align:center;"|Grenade & Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|Abu Nidal Organization

|– Private Citizens & Property

:Two assailants throw grenades into the dining room of the Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant and fire machine guns at the patrons. Six people die, including two American tourists, and 22 others are wounded in the attack on the Jewish restaurant in Paris's Marais district.{{cite news|last=Rothman|first=Andrea|title=4 Dead in Shooting at Jewish School in France|url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-19/three-dead-in-shooting-in-front-of-french-jewish-school-afp|access-date=19 March 2012|newspaper=Businessweek|date=19 March 2012|agency=Bloomberg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322010606/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-03-19/three-dead-in-shooting-in-front-of-french-jewish-school-afp|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 March 2012}}{{cite web | url=http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/france/5194 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060219233945/http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/france/5194 | url-status=dead | archive-date=19 February 2006 | title=Paris symbol of Jewish life to disappear | work=European Jewish Press | date=16 January 2006 | access-date=19 March 2012}}

{{See also|Goldenberg restaurant attack}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|-

|– Diplomatic (United States)

:A bomb, that police said was intended to target a United States diplomat, explodes on a luxurious residential street on the Left Bank near the Eiffel Tower, killing a bomb disposal expert and wounding two others. The bomb had been planted under the vehicle of Roderick Grant, commercial counselor at the United States Embassy in Paris.{{cite news|author=Aline Mosby |agency=UPI |title=Car Bomb In Paris Kills Man|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1243&dat=19820822&id=JI9TAAAAIBAJ&pg=5596,1225240|access-date=17 February 2014|newspaper=The Bulletin |location=Bend, Ore. |date=22 August 1982}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|4

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|ASALA (Armenian nationalists)

|– Private Citizens & Property

:A bomb detonates at the Turkish-owned Marmara Voyages tourism agency in central Paris, killing one female employee and injuring four others. The blast reportedly caused the roof of the offices to collapse.{{cite news|title=Armenians Claim Deadly Bomb Blast |agency=UPI |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19830301&id=GmIeAAAAIBAJ&pg=2706,12845|access-date=17 February 2014|newspaper=Times Daily |location=Florence, Alabama |date=1 March 1983}}{{harvnb|Rubin|Rubin|2008|p=80}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|8

| style="text-align:center;"|55

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|ASALA (Armenian nationalists)

|– Airports & airlines

:A bomb explodes inside a suitcase at the Turkish Airlines check-in desk in the south terminal of the Orly Airport, sending flames through the crowd of passengers checking in for a flight to Istanbul. The bomb consisted of a half kilo of Semtex explosive connected to three portable gas bottles, which caused extensive burns on the victims. Three people were killed immediately in the blast and another five died in hospital. Four of the victims were French, two were Turkish, one was American, and one was Swedish.{{cite news |agency=The Associated Press |title=Orly Blast Claims Seventh Victim, New Threats. |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pZJPAAAAIBAJ&pg=6061%2C19923 |newspaper=Ocala Star-Banner |date=21 July 1983}}The New York Times. [https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/22/world/around-the-world-death-toll-rises-to-7-after-terror-at-orly.html Death Toll Rises to 7 After Terror at Orly]. 22 July 1983{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/01/world/around-the-world-one-killed-and-26-hurt-in-marseilles-explosion.html|title=Around the World; French Hold Armenians In Orly Airport Bombing|agency=Associated Press |date=9 October 1983|newspaper=The New York Times}}

{{main|1983 Orly Airport attack}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Avignon

| style="text-align:center;"|7

| style="text-align:center;"|–

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|

|– Private citizens & property

:At approximately 4:00 (UTC+1), two gunmen shoot to dead seven people at a Sofitel Hotel in a popular holiday town. The victims include the French consul-general for Saarbrücken in West Germany, Lucien Andre. Three other hotel guests and three employees of Sofitel were also killed after apparently being rounded up and ushered into a hotel room.{{cite news|title=Thieves Kill 7 In Botched Hotel Holdup|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19830805&id=4KYrAAAAIBAJ&pg=6716,868442|access-date=14 February 2014|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=5 August 1983|author=Staff writers|agency=Associated Press}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Marseille

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|26

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|ASALA (Armenian nationalists)

|– Private Citizens & Property

:One man is killed and 26 people injured when multiple bombs destroyed the American, Soviet and Algerian pavilions at an international trade fair in Marseille. An Armenian guerrilla group took responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to the police. However then Interior Minister, Gaston Defferre, later stated that the far rightist Charles Martel Group had also taken responsibility for the blast.{{cite news|title=One Killed and 26 Hurt In Marseilles Explosion|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/01/world/around-the-world-one-killed-and-26-hurt-in-marseilles-explosion.html|access-date=8 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 October 1983|agency=Reuters}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Marseille

| style="text-align:center;"|5

| style="text-align:center;"|58+

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|Carlos the Jackal

|– Transport

:A bomb explodes in the two first-class cars of an AGV locomotive as it heads north toward Paris, from the Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles. Although the train was travelling at about 160 kilometres per hour, it does not derail. Rescue workers find 2 passengers dead and 20 wounded, 5 of them seriously.

:Half an hour later a second bomb explodes in the baggage checkroom of the main hall at the Gare de Marseille-Saint-Charles, killing 2 people and wounding at least 38. In 2011 Carlos the Jackal is tried for involvement in the attacks and is subsequently convicted and sentenced to life in prison.{{cite news|title=4 Reported Killed by Bombs in France|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/01/world/4-reported-killed-by-bombs-in-france.html|access-date=7 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 January 1984|agency=Associated Press}}{{cite news|title=Carlos condamné à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité et 18 ans de sûreté|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2011/12/16/carlos-condamne-a-la-reclusion-a-perpetuite-et-18-ans-de-surete_1619506_3224.html?xtmc=carlos_proces&xtcr=2|access-date=8 February 2014|newspaper=Le Monde|date=16 December 2011|agency=Associated Press|language=fr}}

| style="text-align:center;"|7 February 1984

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|Hezbollah & Islamic Jihad

|– Government institutions (Shah of Iran)

:Gholam Ali Oveisi, a four-star general under Iran's late shah, and his brother, an ex-colonel, are killed by gunmen in central Paris. Their driver is also wounded.{{cite news|title=Gunmen Kill Former Iran General, Brother In Paris; driver wounded |agency=Associated Press |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19840208&id=Iq4cAAAAIBAJ&pg=6938,6891168|access-date=13 February 2014|newspaper=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|date=8 February 1984}}{{cite news|title=Two Iranian exiles are assassinated in Paris|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19840208&id=8pUzAAAAIBAJ&pg=5419,3921052|access-date=5 August 2013|newspaper=Lodi News Sentinel|date=8 February 1984|agency=UPI}}

| style="text-align:center;"|8 February 1984

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|–

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|Abu Nidal Organization

|– Diplomatic (Emirati)

:A lone gunman shoots and kills the United Arab Emirates' ambassador to France outside the diplomat's Paris home. Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz al-Mubarak is killed in a district of Paris nearby the Eiffel tower.{{cite news|title=United Arab Emirates' Envoy To France Killed|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1899&dat=19840208&id=7sFGAAAAIBAJ&pg=4621,815966|access-date=14 February 2014|newspaper=The Lewiston Journal|date=7 February 1984|author=Staff writers|agency=Associated Press}}

| style="text-align:center;"|25 January 1985

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|–

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|Action Directe

|– Government institutions

:General René Audran, a senior official of the French Ministry of Defence, is shot to dead in front of his residence at La Celle-Saint-Cloud.{{cite news|title=How Paris Became A Killing Field|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19870224&id=pipWAAAAIBAJ&pg=1471,5657419|access-date=14 February 2014|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=24 February 1987}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|15

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|–

|– Private Citizens & Property

:A bomb explodes at an entrance to the Paris branch of the British-owned department store Marks & Spencer as it opened for business, killing a man and wounding 15 other people. Telephone calls claiming responsibility were received from the Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance, an outlawed group seeking the independence of France's Caribbean territories; and from Direct Action, a left-wing extremist group that had announced its fusion with the Red Army Faction terrorists of Germany.{{cite news|last=Vinocur|first=John |author-link=John Vinocur |title=Man Killed in Blast in British Store in Paris; 15 Hurt|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/24/world/man-killed-in-blast-in-british-store-in-paris-15-hurt.html|access-date=8 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 February 1985}}

| style="text-align:center;"|3 March 1985

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|4

| style="text-align:center;"|–

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|–

|– Government institutions (Foreign: Khmer Rouge)

:Try Meng Huot – a doctor in chemistry who had been a lecturer at the University of Paris before he became a Khmer Rouge leader – is killed in his Parisian apartment alongside his wife and another unidentified couple.{{cite book|last=Becker|first=Elizabeth|title=When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution|date=1998|publisher=Public Affairs|isbn=9780786725861|page=518|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mg9QLPuOZvgC&q=Try+Meng+Huot+paris&pg=PA518}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|28

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|CSPPA (Lebanese faction)

|– Private Citizens & Property

:A bomb explodes in a packed mall of luxury boutiques on the Champs-Elysees, killing 2 people and wounding 28. A second bomb, found on a metro train, was defused by police demolition experts before it could explode. A terrorist organization calling itself the Committee of Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners asserted responsibility for the attack in a handwritten letter sent to the Beirut office of a Western news agency.{{cite news|title=Arab Terrorists Claim Paris Arcade Bombing|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/22/world/arab-terrorists-claim-paris-arcade-bombing.html|access-date=7 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=22 March 1986}}{{cite news|title=Bomb Kills 1, Injures 29 in Paris|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19860321&id=bGEeAAAAIBAJ&pg=1623,5383762|access-date=17 February 2014|newspaper=Times Daily |location=Florence, Alabama |date=21 March 1986|author=Staff writers|agency=Associated Press}}

| style="text-align:center;"|25 April 1986

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Rhône-Alpes|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Lyon

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|–

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|–

|– Business

:Kenneth Marston, director of a French subsidiary of Black & Decker, is shot to death outside his home.{{cite news|title=Bomb Blast At Amex Office In Lyons|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19860427&id=mIJUAAAAIBAJ&pg=2758,2730603|access-date=13 February 2014|newspaper=New Straits Times|date=27 April 1986}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|18

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|CSPPA (Lebanese faction)

|– Government institutions

:A bomb explodes inside the post office of the Hôtel de Ville, killing one person and wounding 18 others. The dead woman is identified as Marguerite Thuault, an employee of the post office.{{cite news|last=Bernstein|first=Richard |author-link=Richard Bernstein (journalist) |title=Bomb Rips Office at Headquarters of Police in Paris|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/16/world/bomb-rips-office-at-headquarters-of-police-in-paris.html|access-date=7 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=16 September 1986}}{{cite news|title=Group Takes Blame For Bombing In Paris|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19860909&id=E-8wAAAAIBAJ&pg=1142,920375|access-date=14 February 2014|newspaper=Kentucky New Era|date=9 September 1986}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|51

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|CSPPA (Lebanese faction)

|– Government institutions

:A bomb explodes inside the Parisian police headquarters, killing one person and wounding 51 others, two seriously.

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|5

| style="text-align:center;"|50+

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|CSPPA (Lebanese faction)

|– Private Citizens & Property

:A bomb thrown from a passing car explodes in front of a Tati department store on the Left Bank, killing at least 5 people and wounding about 50. The blast, which occurred about 17:30, destroyed the entire front of the seven-story building on the rue de Rennes.{{cite news|last=Bernstein|first=Richard |author-link=Richard Bernstein (journalist) |title=5 Dead, 50 Hurt as Bomb Is Hurled on a Paris Street|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/18/world/5-dead-50-hurt-as-bomb-is-hurled-on-a-paris-street.html|access-date=7 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=18 September 1986}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Toulon

| style="text-align:center;"|4

| style="text-align:center;"|–

| style="text-align:center;"|Car bomb

| style="text-align:center;"|–

|–

:A car explodes in the seafront market place at Toulon, killing the four occupants and setting fire to a nearby building. The police said it may have been carrying explosives in preparation for a bomb attack.{{cite news|title=Car Explosion Kills Four in French Port|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/18/world/car-explosion-kills-four-in-french-port.html|access-date=9 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=18 October 1986|agency=Reuters}}

| style="text-align:center;"|17 November 1986

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|–

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|Action Directe

|– Business

:A man and woman firing from a motorcycle kill the head of the French auto-maker Renault. Georges Besse is struck down by gunfire as he exited from his car, unaccompanied by bodyguards. He had been appointed chairman of the company in January 1985.{{cite news|title=Renault Chief Is Slain In Paris Street|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19861118&id=c5E0AAAAIBAJ&pg=6376,5455295|access-date=14 February 2014|newspaper=The Montreal Gazette|date=18 November 1986|author=Staff writers|agency=Reuters}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Cagnes sur Mer

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|12

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|French and European Nationalist Party

|– Private Citizens & Property

:At 3:00 (UTC+1), two homemade bombs explode at a crowded hostel for mostly North African immigrant workers, killing a Romanian national and wounding at least 12 others. The first blast destroyed a number of vehicles on the street, and following this a second blast, under the main stairwell of the building, destroyed the corridor into which many residents had come to check the first blast.{{cite news|title=Bombs In France Target Foreigners|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19881219&id=0XlPAAAAIBAJ&pg=5549,7783146|access-date=17 February 2014|newspaper=The Bryan Times|date=19 December 1988}}{{cite news|title=Bomb Explosions Kill 1, Injure Dozen|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=348&dat=19881219&id=YTEwAAAAIBAJ&pg=5657,6240604|access-date=17 February 2014|newspaper=Rome News-Tribune|date=19 December 1988}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|4

| style="text-align:center;"|6

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire – Hostage taking

| style="text-align:center;"|–

|– Government institutions

:Three police officers and a taxi driver are killed, and six other people – including two more officers – are wounded in separate shoot outs with two masked gunmen in Paris. The pair broke into a Paris police station to steal fire arms, then took a taxi driver hostage and forced him to drive them to the Bois de Vincennes park on the outskirts of Paris, where the final shoot out took place.{{cite news|title=Four Dead, Six Hurt In Paris Pre-dawn Shoot-out|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19941006&id=mjhOAAAAIBAJ&pg=6527,2133204|access-date=14 February 2014|newspaper=New Straits Times|date=6 October 1994|author=Staff writers|agency=Reuters}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|8

| style="text-align:center;"|150

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised explosive device

| style="text-align:center;"|GIA
(Islamists)

|– Transport

:Eight people are killed and 150 wounded in an explosion of a gas canister packed with nails and bolts on a Paris regional train at the Gare de Saint-Michel-Notre-Dame rail station. The bombing was claimed by the Armed Islamic Group as reprisals for French support for Algeria's army-backed government.{{cite news|last=Riding|first=Alan|title=French Court Sentences 2 for Role in 1995 Bombings That Killed 8|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/01/world/french-court-sentences-2-for-role-in-1995-bombings-that-killed-8.html|access-date=6 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 November 2002}}{{cite news|title=Algerians get life for Paris bombings|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2378997.stm|access-date=6 February 2014|work=BBC News|date=30 October 2002}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|3

| style="text-align:center;"|85

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised explosive device

| style="text-align:center;"|GIA
(Islamists)

|– Transport

:A blast at 18:03 CET rips open the doors of a train on the southbound track of the Port Royal station of the regional express network on the Left Bank, scattering the wounded – totaling over 85 – over the platform. Three people succumb to injuries caused by the bomb made from a 28-pound camping gas canister filled with nails.{{cite news|last=Whitney|first=Craig|title=2 Die as Terrorist Bomb Rips Train at a Paris Station|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/04/world/2-die-as-terrorist-bomb-rips-train-at-a-paris-station.html|access-date=9 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=4 December 1996}}{{cite news|title=Subway Bomb In Paris Kills Two|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19961203&id=7dczAAAAIBAJ&pg=6807,4344907|access-date=12 February 2014|newspaper=Lodi News-Sentinel|date=3 December 1996|author=Staff writers|agency=Associated Press}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Brittany|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Plévin

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|–

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised explosive device

| style="text-align:center;"|–

|– Private Citizens & Property

:A bomb explodes beside a McDonald's in a small town in Brittany, killing a restaurant worker. The explosion, in the Dinan area, happens at about 10:00 CET, near the restaurant's drive-through window.{{cite news|title=French McDonald's Bombed; Breton Terrorists Suspected|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/20/world/french-mcdonald-s-bombed-breton-terrorists-suspected.html|access-date=10 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=20 April 2000}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|4

| style="text-align:center;"|Improvised explosive device

| style="text-align:center;"|–

|– Private Citizens & Property

:A parcel bomb explodes at a legal office in central Paris killing a secretary and seriously injuring a lawyer. Several other people were lightly hurt in the unclaimed blast shortly before 13:00 CET on the fourth floor of a building in the capital's fashionable eighth arrondissement or district.{{cite news|title=Deadly parcel bomb explodes in Paris legal office|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hYG4B8aHAxwU07w2WH3J6qxyEDwA?hl=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140123234056/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hYG4B8aHAxwU07w2WH3J6qxyEDwA?hl=en|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 January 2014|access-date=10 February 2014|agency=Agence France-Presse|date=6 December 2007}}

| style="text-align:center;"|16 December 2008

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Paris|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|0

| style="text-align:center;"|0

| style="text-align:center;"|Failed explosive device

| style="text-align:center;"|Afghan Revolutionary Front

|– Government institutions

:A group so-called Afghan Revolutionary Front left a bundle of dynamite in the third floor restroom of the menswear department inside a department store in Paris, and sent a letter to police saying several bombs were planted in the store and that they demanded that France withdraw from Afghanistan. The first device was defused and no casualties were reported.{{cite web|url=https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/2008/12/16/afghan-revolutionary-front-plants-dynamite-at-paris-department-store/31590246007/|title=Afghan Revolutionary Front plants dynamite at Paris department store|work=Gainesville.com|accessdate=2023-07-04}}{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/16/paris.department.store.explosives/index.html|title=Dynamite found at Paris department store|work=Edition CNN|accessdate=2023-07-04}}

| style="text-align:center;"|15 March 2012

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Midi-Pyrénées|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Montauban

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|Mohammed Merah (Islamist)

|– Government institutions

:At around 14:00 CET, two uniformed soldiers were killed and a third was seriously injured outside a shopping centre in Montauban, while withdrawing money from a cash machine. They were all from the 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment ({{Lang|fr|17^e Régiment du génie parachutiste}}), whose barracks are close to the town. Corporal Abel Chennouf, 24, and Private Mohamed Legouad, 23, both of North African origin, were killed. Corporal Loïc Liber, 28, from Guadeloupe, was left in a coma.{{cite web |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2012/03/15/01016-20120315ARTFIG00729-trois-parachutistes-abattusen-pleine-rue-a-montauban.php |title=Deux parachutistes abattus en pleine rue à Montauban (in French) |date=16 March 2012 |work=Le Figaro |language=fr |access-date=19 March 2012}}{{cite news |last1=Abéla |first1=Frédéric |last2=François |first2=Jean-Pierre |title=Montauban-Toulouse. Trois exécutions, une même arme |url=http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2012/03/17/1308622-montauban-toulouse-trois-executions-une-meme-arme.html |access-date=19 March 2012 |newspaper=La Depeche |language=fr |date=17 March 2012}}

{{See also|Toulouse and Montauban shootings}}

| style="text-align:center;"|19 March 2012

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Midi-Pyrénées|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Toulouse

| style="text-align:center;"|5
(one perp.)

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|Mohammed Merah (Islamist)

|– Religious figures & institutions

:At about 8:00 CET, a man drove up to the Ozar Hatorah school on a motorcycle. He dismounted, and immediately opened fire toward the schoolyard. Four people died: 30-year-old Rabbi Jonathan (Yonatan) Sandler; his two oldest (out of three) children Aryeh, aged 6, and Gabriel, aged 3; and the head teacher's daughter, eight-year-old Miriam Monsonego, the girl shot in the head. Bryan Bijaoui, a 17-year-old Jewish boy, was gravely injured.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17446999 |title=Toulouse school dead flown to Jerusalem for burial |date=20 March 2012 |work=BBC News}}{{cite news | date = 21 March 2012 | title = Toulouse Victims Buried in Israel | author = Isabel Kershner |work=The New York Times }}{{cite news|title='Looking to Kill:' 4 Slain at French Jewish School|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/french-official-shooter-kills-school-15951738 |access-date=23 March 2012|date=19 March 2012 | publisher = ABC News | agency = Associated Press }}

{{See also|Toulouse and Montauban shootings}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|14
(2 perps.)

| style="text-align:center;"|11

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire

| style="text-align:center;"|Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

|– Private Citizens & Property

:At about 11:30 CET, two militants armed with assault rifles and other weapons forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. They fired up to 50 shots, initially killing 11 people and injuring 11 others, and shouted "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is [the] greatest") during their attack.

{{main|Charlie Hebdo shooting|January 2015 Île-de-France attacks}}

| style="text-align:center;"|9 January 2015

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris

| style="text-align:center;"|5
(one perp.)

| style="text-align:center;"|9

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms fire – hostage taking
(1 day)

| style="text-align:center;"|Amedy Coulibaly (Islamist)

|– Private Citizens & Property

:At about 1:00 CET, an Islamist militant who pledged allegiance to Islamic State, enters the Hypercacher kosher superette in Porte de Vincennes and takes up to 20 Jewish patrons hostage. Four Jewish hostages die and held fifteen others are held during a siege in which Coulibaly demands that the two militants responsible for the attack on the satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo not be harmed.

{{main|Porte de Vincennes siege|January 2015 Île-de-France attacks}}

| style="text-align:center;"|26 June 2015

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Rhône-Alpes|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Saint-Quentin-Fallavier

| style="text-align:center;"|1

| style="text-align:center;"|2

| style="text-align:center;"|Bladed weapon & Improvised Explosive Device

| style="text-align:center;"|Yassine Salhi (Islamist)

|– Private Citizens & Property

:At about 9:30 CEST, a suspected Islamic militant decapitates a man and drives a company van into gas cylinders at an Air Products' gas factory near Lyon. The attacker placed the head of a victim on a fence railing, and planted two Jihadist flag banners alongside it. Video surveillance footage showed that the perpetrator also tried to ignite several canisters containing flammable chemicals.

{{main|Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Nord-Pas-de-Calais|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Oignies

| style="text-align:center;"|0

| style="text-align:center;"|5

| style="text-align:center;"|Small arms, bladed weapons

| style="text-align:center;"|Ayoub El Khazzani (Islamist)

|– Transport

:At about 17:45 CEST, a 26-year-old Moroccan national carrying a Draco automatic rifle, magazines containing 300 rounds, a semi-automatic Luger pistol, and a box cutter, opened fire on a Thalys train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. The gunman was attacked and subdued by seven men (four Americans, including an ex-pat, a Frenchman, an American-French citizen and a Briton), who beat him unconscious. The train was diverted to Arras where the man was arrested and identified, and two victims treated. The man had been previously flagged with an "S" card, France's warning alert for someone believed to be a national security risk.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34023361|title=France train shooting: Three hurt and man arrested |work=BBC News|date=21 August 2015 |access-date=21 August 2015}}

{{main|2015 Thalys train attack}}

| style="text-align:center;"|{{Coat of arms|Île-de-France|size=30px|text=none}}

| style="text-align:center;"|Paris, Saint-Denis

| style="text-align:center;"|130 (+7)

| style="text-align:center;"|368

| style="text-align:center;"|AK-47 assault rifles, hand grenades, various explosives, suicide vests

| style="text-align:center;"| Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

|– Private Citizens & Property

:On the evening of 13 November 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks comprising mass shootings and suicide bombings occurred in Paris and Saint-Denis, France. Beginning at 21:16 CET,{{cite web |title=Soudain, l'une des bombes explose en plein match |url=http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/monde/story/Soudain--l-une-des-bombes-explose-en-plein-match-27994743 |website=20 minutes (Switzerland) |date=13 November 2015 |access-date=14 November 2015 |quote=On entend clairement, sur cette vidéo, la détonation de 21h16 |language=fr}} three separate explosions and six mass shootings occurred, including bombings near the Stade de France in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis.{{cite news |last1=Nossiter |first1=Adam |last2=Gladstone |first2=Rick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/14/world/europe/paris-shooting-attacks.html |title=Paris Attacks Kill More Than 100, Police Say; Border Controls Tightened |website=The New York Times |date=13 November 2015 |access-date=13 November 2015}} The deadliest attack was at the Bataclan theatre where attackers took hostages and engaged in a standoff with police until it was ended at 00:58 CET 14 November 2015. 130 civilians were killed in the attacks.

{{main|November 2015 Paris attacks}}

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|– Private Citizens & Property

:On the evening of 14 July 2016, a vehicle-ramming attack took place in Nice, France when a man deliberately drove a cargo truck into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais. 86 people were killed and 434 others were injured.

{{main|2016 Nice truck attack}}

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|– Private Citizens & Property

:On 13 June 2016, a police officer and his wife, a police secretary, were stabbed to death in their home in Magnanville (about 55 km or 35 miles west of Paris) by a man acting on an "order" by ISIL to "kill infidels".

{{main|2016 Magnanville stabbing}}

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|– Private Citizens & Property

:On 3 February 2017, armed with two 40-centimetre machetes a 29-year-old Egyptian terrorist attacked patrolling guards outside the Louvre museum. One of the guards was slightly injured during the attack as the perpetrator was shot dead.

{{main|2017 Paris machete attack}}

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|– Police officers & Private Citizen

:On 20 April 2017, a police officer was killed and two more were injured alongside a tourist by an assailant wielding a Kalashnikov rifle on the Champs-Élysées, a shopping boulevard in Paris, France.

{{main|2017 shooting of Paris police officers}}

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|– Police officers & Private Citizens

:On 23 March 2018, a 25 year old assailant hijacked a car in Carcassonne, France, killing one. He then shot at some off duty officers and then drove to the nearby town of Trèbes where he stormed a local supermarket, killing three, including a policeman, and taking several hostage. He was later shot and killed.

{{main|Carcassonne and Trèbes attack}}

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|– Private Citizen

:A 21-year-old Chechnia-born man armed with a knife, killed one pedestrian and injured four more near the Palais Garnier, the opera house in Paris, France, before being fatally shot by police.

{{main|2018 Paris knife attack}}

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|– Private Citizens

: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.

{{main|2018 Strasbourg attack}}

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|– Private Citizens

:A packet bomb explodes 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 3 days later. No group has claimed responsibility of the attack yet.

{{main|2019 Lyon bomb attack}}

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|– Police Employees

: 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.

{{main| Paris police headquarters stabbing}}

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|– Civilians

: A man stabbed three people in Villejuif, a suburb of Paris, killing one person and wounding two others. The attacker was shot dead by police. The attacker was identified as Nathan Chiasson, a follower of Salafism, an extremist sect of Islam.

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|-Civilians

: 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.

{{main| 2020 Romans-sur-Isère knife attack}}

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|-Civilians

: Three 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.

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|-Civilians

: A knife attack outside the former headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France, left two people wounded. The building is now used by a television production company, and the two wounded victims are workers of the company. The suspected perpetrator and six other people were taken into custody. Interior minister Gérald Darmanin said that the attack was "clearly an act of Islamist terrorism".

{{main| 2020 Paris stabbing attack}}

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|-Teacher

: A teacher was beheaded near a school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, a suburb of Paris, the attacker was shot dead by police. The victim is said to have shown controversial cartoons of Muhammad to his students. President Emmanuel Macron called the attack an "Islamist terrorist attack".

{{main| Murder of Samuel Paty}}

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|-Churchgoers

: Three people were killed in a stabbing attack at Notre-Dame de Nice, a Roman Catholic basilica, in Nice, France. One of the victims, a woman, was beheaded by the attacker. Several additional victims were injured. The attacker, who was shot by the police, was taken into custody. The Mayor of Nice and police said the incident appeared to be an Islamic extremism terrorist attack.

{{main| 2020 Nice stabbing}}