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			{{Short description\|2019 stabbing in Paris, France}}
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	\| fatalities = 5 (including the attacker)		\| fatalities = 5 (including the attacker)
	\| injuries = 2		\| injuries = 2
	\| perp = Mickaël Harpon ~~also a police employee~~		\| perp = Mickaël Harpon
	\| weapons = ]<ref name="LeFigaro">{{Cite news\|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2019/10/03/01016-20191003LIVWWW00003-attaque-a-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris-quatre-personnes-tuees-l-assaillant-abattu.php\|title=EN DIRECT – Attaque à la préfecture de police de Paris : quatre personnes tuées, l'assaillant abattu\|date=3 October 2019\|work=Le Figaro\|language=fr\|access-date=3 October 2019}}</ref>		\| weapons = ]<ref name="LeFigaro">{{Cite news\|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2019/10/03/01016-20191003LIVWWW00003-attaque-a-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris-quatre-personnes-tuees-l-assaillant-abattu.php\|title=EN DIRECT – Attaque à la préfecture de police de Paris : quatre personnes tuées, l'assaillant abattu\|date=3 October 2019\|work=Le Figaro\|language=fr\|access-date=3 October 2019}}</ref>
	\| motive = ] (])<ref name="tesat2020"/>		\| motive = ] (])<ref name="tesat2020"/>
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	== Attacker ==		== Attacker ==
	The attacker was reported as being 45-year-old Mickaël Harpon, an ] specialist who worked in the intelligence unit of the police headquarters for the last 16 years and held a ] ], giving him access to restricted information like the watchlist of terror suspects, addresses of police officers and data on French citizens and their families who had returned after they fought in the ].<ref name="BBC 49921145" /><ref name="Independent" /><ref name="FAZ"/> He was born in ] in the ] ] of ] in 1974,<ref name="LeMonde"/> and had been deaf since childhood.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/04/paris-knifeman-stabbed-four-death-trusted-deaf-worker-10858632/\|title=Paris knifeman who fatally stabbed four people was 'trusted' deaf IT worker\|date=4 October 2019\|website=Metro\|access-date=4 October 2019}}</ref> The murder weapon was a ceramic knife of a type undetectable by metal ~~scanners~~.<ref>{{cite news \|title=Attaque au couteau à la préfecture de police de Paris : ce que l'on sait \|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/attaque-au-couteau-a-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris-syndicats-20191003 \|access-date=3 October 2019 \|work=] \|date=3 October 2019 \|language=fr }}</ref>		The attacker was reported as being 45-year-old Mickaël Harpon, an ] specialist who worked in the intelligence unit of the police headquarters for the last 16 years and held a ], giving him access to restricted information like the watchlist of terror suspects, addresses of police officers and data on French citizens and their families who had returned after they fought in the ].<ref name="BBC 49921145" /><ref name="Independent" /><ref name="FAZ"/> He was born in ] in the ] ] of ] in 1974,<ref name="LeMonde"/> and had been deaf since childhood.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/04/paris-knifeman-stabbed-four-death-trusted-deaf-worker-10858632/\|title=Paris knifeman who fatally stabbed four people was 'trusted' deaf IT worker\|date=4 October 2019\|website=Metro\|access-date=4 October 2019}}</ref> The murder weapon was a ] of a type undetectable by ]s.<ref>{{cite news \|title=Attaque au couteau à la préfecture de police de Paris : ce que l'on sait \|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/attaque-au-couteau-a-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris-syndicats-20191003 \|access-date=3 October 2019 \|work=] \|date=3 October 2019 \|language=fr }}</ref>

	== Investigation ==		== Investigation ==
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	Initial reports suggested a workplace dispute was the motive. The day after the attack, a counter-terrorism investigation was opened,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49937446\|title=Terror inquiry launched into Paris police killings\|date=4 October 2019\|work=BBC News\|access-date=4 October 2019}}</ref> looking into whether the attacker was a radicalised Islamist and the possibility that he may have been in contact with or received support from any terrorist groups.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/attaque-de-paris-le-parquet-antiterroriste-saisi-20191004\|title=Attaque de Paris : l'enquête privilégie la piste terroriste\|date=4 October 2019\|work=Le Figaro\|language=fr\|access-date=5 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/world/europe/paris-police-stabbing.html\|title=Terrorism Motive Eyed in Paris Police Stabbing Attack\|last=Breeden\|first=Aurelien\|date=4 October 2019\|work=The New York Times\|access-date=5 October 2019\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The perpetrator had ];<ref name="monde0410">{{cite news\|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/10/04/ce-que-l-on-sait-de-l-attaque-a-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris_6014194_3224.html\|title=Attaque à la préfecture de police de Paris : le parquet antiterroriste se saisit de l'enquête\|date=4 October 2019\|work=]\|access-date=4 October 2019\|language=fr}}</ref> according to Paris prosecutor ] his conversion to ] took place a decade prior.<ref name="Samuel">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/06/france-probes-security-agency-threats-police-killer-high-level/\|title=France probes security agency 'threats' after police killer with high-level clearance revealed as Islamic 'radical'\|last=Samuel\|first=Henry\|date=6 October 2019\|work=The Telegraph\|access-date=6 October 2019\|issn=0307-1235}}</ref><ref>{{Citation\|title=" Ce n'est pas la personne que je connaissais. " L'incompréhension d'un ami de Michaël Harpon qui le côtoyait depuis 5 ans\|url=https://www.bfmtv.com/mediaplayer/video/ce-n-est-pas-la-personne-que-je-connaissais-l-incomprehension-d-un-ami-de-michael-harpon-qui-le-cotoyait-depuis-5-ans-1191952.html\|publisher=BFMTV\|language=fr\|access-date=5 October 2019}}</ref> He attended mosque rituals twice a day.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Adam Nossiter \|title=In Paris Knife Attack, Police Ask How They Missed a Killer in Their Midst \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world/europe/paris-knife-attack.html \|access-date=7 October 2019 \|work=] \|date=5 October 2019}}</ref> Colleagues had reported Harpon in 2015 for voicing support for the ]; nothing was done.<ref name="FAZ">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/messerattacke-in-paris-vertuschung-auf-hoechsten-befehl-16418097.html\|title=Vertuschung auf höchsten Befehl\|last=Wiegel\|first=Michaela\|date=5 October 2019\|work=Frankfurter Allgemeine \|access-date=5 October 2019\|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49959827\|title=Killings expose French terror alert failure\|date=2019-10-07\|work=BBC News\|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>		Initial reports suggested a workplace dispute was the motive. The day after the attack, a counter-terrorism investigation was opened,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49937446\|title=Terror inquiry launched into Paris police killings\|date=4 October 2019\|work=BBC News\|access-date=4 October 2019}}</ref> looking into whether the attacker was a radicalised Islamist and the possibility that he may have been in contact with or received support from any terrorist groups.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/attaque-de-paris-le-parquet-antiterroriste-saisi-20191004\|title=Attaque de Paris : l'enquête privilégie la piste terroriste\|date=4 October 2019\|work=Le Figaro\|language=fr\|access-date=5 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/world/europe/paris-police-stabbing.html\|title=Terrorism Motive Eyed in Paris Police Stabbing Attack\|last=Breeden\|first=Aurelien\|date=4 October 2019\|work=The New York Times\|access-date=5 October 2019\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The perpetrator had ];<ref name="monde0410">{{cite news\|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/10/04/ce-que-l-on-sait-de-l-attaque-a-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris_6014194_3224.html\|title=Attaque à la préfecture de police de Paris : le parquet antiterroriste se saisit de l'enquête\|date=4 October 2019\|work=]\|access-date=4 October 2019\|language=fr}}</ref> according to Paris prosecutor ] his conversion to ] took place a decade prior.<ref name="Samuel">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/06/france-probes-security-agency-threats-police-killer-high-level/\|title=France probes security agency 'threats' after police killer with high-level clearance revealed as Islamic 'radical'\|last=Samuel\|first=Henry\|date=6 October 2019\|work=The Telegraph\|access-date=6 October 2019\|issn=0307-1235}}</ref><ref>{{Citation\|title=" Ce n'est pas la personne que je connaissais. " L'incompréhension d'un ami de Michaël Harpon qui le côtoyait depuis 5 ans\|url=https://www.bfmtv.com/mediaplayer/video/ce-n-est-pas-la-personne-que-je-connaissais-l-incomprehension-d-un-ami-de-michael-harpon-qui-le-cotoyait-depuis-5-ans-1191952.html\|publisher=BFMTV\|language=fr\|access-date=5 October 2019}}</ref> He attended mosque rituals twice a day.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Adam Nossiter \|title=In Paris Knife Attack, Police Ask How They Missed a Killer in Their Midst \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world/europe/paris-knife-attack.html \|access-date=7 October 2019 \|work=] \|date=5 October 2019}}</ref> Colleagues had reported Harpon in 2015 for voicing support for the ]; nothing was done.<ref name="FAZ">{{Cite news\|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/messerattacke-in-paris-vertuschung-auf-hoechsten-befehl-16418097.html\|title=Vertuschung auf höchsten Befehl\|last=Wiegel\|first=Michaela\|date=5 October 2019\|work=Frankfurter Allgemeine \|access-date=5 October 2019\|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49959827\|title=Killings expose French terror alert failure\|date=2019-10-07\|work=BBC News\|access-date=2019-10-07}}</ref>

	The counter-terrorism head said that the attacker had radical and extremist religious views, that started when he justified some violent acts with an Islamist background, stopped wearing ] and to not talking to women excluding those of his family. Ties between Harpon and ] men were also confirmed.<ref>{{Cite news \|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49945640 \|title=Paris attacker showed signs of 'radicalisation' \|date=5 October 2019 \|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.lci.fr/police/en-direct-attaque-a-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris-l-opposition-lr-veut-une-commission-d-enquete-a-l-assemblee-2133983.html\|title=EN DIRECT - Attaque à la préfecture de police : "Un périple meurtrier de sept minutes"\|website=LCI\|language=fr\|access-date=5 October 2019}}</ref> Before starting the attack, Harpon communicated with his wife, and they exchanged a total of 33 messages. Among those, Harpon wrote "Allah Akbar" and "Follow our much-loved Prophet Muhammad, and meditate on the Quran".<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.linternaute.com/actualite/societe/2310890-attaque-de-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris-pourquoi-l-acte-de-michael-harpon-peut-il-etre-qualifie-d-attentat/\|title=Attaque de la préfecture de police de Paris : pourquoi l'acte de Michael Harpon peut-il être qualifié d'attentat\|work=Linternaute\|language=fr\|access-date=5 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/05/europe/paris-attacker-police-radicalized-intl/index.html\|title=Paris police attacker followed a 'radical vision of Islam,' anti-terrorism prosecutor says\|last=Siad\|first=Arnaud\|work=CNN\|access-date=6 October 2019}}</ref>		The counter-terrorism head said that the attacker had radical and extremist religious views, that started when he justified some violent acts with an Islamist background, stopped wearing ] and to not talking to women excluding those of his family. Ties between Harpon and ] men were also confirmed.<ref>{{Cite news \|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49945640 \|title=Paris attacker showed signs of 'radicalisation' \|date=5 October 2019 \|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.lci.fr/police/en-direct-attaque-a-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris-l-opposition-lr-veut-une-commission-d-enquete-a-l-assemblee-2133983.html\|title=EN DIRECT - Attaque à la préfecture de police : "Un périple meurtrier de sept minutes"\|website=LCI\|language=fr\|access-date=5 October 2019}}</ref> Before starting the attack, Harpon communicated with his wife, and they exchanged a total of 33 messages. Among those, Harpon wrote "]" and "Follow our much-loved Prophet Muhammad, and meditate on the Quran".<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.linternaute.com/actualite/societe/2310890-attaque-de-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris-pourquoi-l-acte-de-michael-harpon-peut-il-etre-qualifie-d-attentat/\|title=Attaque de la préfecture de police de Paris : pourquoi l'acte de Michael Harpon peut-il être qualifié d'attentat\|work=Linternaute\|language=fr\|access-date=5 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/05/europe/paris-attacker-police-radicalized-intl/index.html\|title=Paris police attacker followed a 'radical vision of Islam,' anti-terrorism prosecutor says\|last=Siad\|first=Arnaud\|work=CNN\|access-date=6 October 2019}}</ref>

	A ] was found at Harpon's office: propaganda material from the ], including beheading ~~videos~~,<ref>{{cite news \|title=Les infos de 12h30 - Attaque à la préfecture : ce que contenait la clé USB de Mickaël Harpon \|url=https://www.rtl.fr/actu/justice-faits-divers/les-infos-de-12h30-attaque-a-la-prefecture-ce-que-contenait-la-cle-usb-de-mickael-harpon-7798391880 \|access-date=8 October 2019 \|work=] \|date=8 October 2019 \|language=fr }}</ref> and details of police officers who worked with him were found inside it. Officers investigated possible links with the ], in which two police officers were killed at their home by Larossi Abballa, an Islamist who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.<ref name=lm_20191017>{{cite news \|last1=Vincent \|first1=Elise \|last2=Chapuis \|first2=Nicolas \|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/10/07/une-cle-usb-avec-les-coordonnees-de-policiers-trouvee-au-domicile-de-mickael-harpon_6014597_3224.html \|title=Une clé USB avec les coordonnées de policiers trouvée au domicile de Mickaël Harpon \|work=Le Monde \|date=7 October 2019 \|language=fr}}</ref> Investigation of Harpon's computer and phone revealed that he searched the internet for "how to kill infidels" shortly before the attack.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/faits-divers/police/attaque-a-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris/attaque-a-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris-une-recherche-informatique-effectuee-par-mickael-harpon-avant-son-passage-a-l-acte-accredite-la-piste-terroriste_3841851.html\|title=Attaque à la préfecture de police de Paris : une recherche informatique effectuée par Mickaël Harpon avant son passage à l'acte accrédite la piste terroriste\|date=2020-02-26\|website=Franceinfo\|language=fr\|access-date=2020-02-29}}</ref>		A ] was found at Harpon's office: propaganda material from the ], including ]s,<ref>{{cite news \|title=Les infos de 12h30 - Attaque à la préfecture : ce que contenait la clé USB de Mickaël Harpon \|url=https://www.rtl.fr/actu/justice-faits-divers/les-infos-de-12h30-attaque-a-la-prefecture-ce-que-contenait-la-cle-usb-de-mickael-harpon-7798391880 \|access-date=8 October 2019 \|work=] \|date=8 October 2019 \|language=fr }}</ref> and details of police officers who worked with him were found inside it. Officers investigated possible links with the ], in which two police officers were killed at their home by Larossi Abballa, an Islamist who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.<ref name=lm_20191017>{{cite news \|last1=Vincent \|first1=Elise \|last2=Chapuis \|first2=Nicolas \|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/10/07/une-cle-usb-avec-les-coordonnees-de-policiers-trouvee-au-domicile-de-mickael-harpon_6014597_3224.html \|title=Une clé USB avec les coordonnées de policiers trouvée au domicile de Mickaël Harpon \|work=Le Monde \|date=7 October 2019 \|language=fr}}</ref> Investigation of Harpon's computer and phone revealed that he searched the internet for "how to kill infidels" shortly before the attack.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/faits-divers/police/attaque-a-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris/attaque-a-la-prefecture-de-police-de-paris-une-recherche-informatique-effectuee-par-mickael-harpon-avant-son-passage-a-l-acte-accredite-la-piste-terroriste_3841851.html\|title=Attaque à la préfecture de police de Paris : une recherche informatique effectuée par Mickaël Harpon avant son passage à l'acte accrédite la piste terroriste\|date=2020-02-26\|website=Franceinfo\|language=fr\|access-date=2020-02-29}}</ref>

	Five people linked to the attacker were arrested on 14 October 2019. Among those five was an ] listed in the '']'', a list of individuals deemed potential security threats.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50040287\|title=Five people arrested over Paris knife attack\|date=2019-10-14\|work=]\|access-date=2019-10-14\|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.dw.com/en/french-police-arrest-5-people-linked-to-deadly-knife-attack/a-50819386\|title=French police arrest 5 people linked to deadly knife attack\|website=DW.COM\|language=en-GB\|access-date=2019-10-14}}</ref>{{Update inline\|date=February 2020\|reason=And then what happened? Were they released? Were they charged with any crimes? Were they convicted?}}		Five people linked to the attacker were arrested on 14 October 2019. Among those five was an ] listed in the '']'', a list of individuals deemed potential security threats.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50040287\|title=Five people arrested over Paris knife attack\|date=2019-10-14\|work=]\|access-date=2019-10-14\|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.dw.com/en/french-police-arrest-5-people-linked-to-deadly-knife-attack/a-50819386\|title=French police arrest 5 people linked to deadly knife attack\|website=DW.COM\|language=en-GB\|access-date=2019-10-14}}</ref>{{Update inline\|date=February 2020\|reason=And then what happened? Were they released? Were they charged with any crimes? Were they convicted?}}
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Latest revision as of 13:24, 30 December 2024

2019 stabbing in Paris, France

Paris police headquarters stabbing
Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe
Map of Île de la Cité
Location	Paris, France
Coordinates	48°51′14.4″N 2°20′48.8″E / 48.854000°N 2.346889°E / 48.854000; 2.346889
Date	3 October 2019 (2019-10-03) c. 1:00 p.m.
Target	Police employees
Attack type	Mass stabbing
Weapons	Ceramic knife
Deaths	5 (including the attacker)
Injured	2
Perpetrator	Mickaël Harpon
Motive	Jihadism (Islamic terrorism)

On 3 October 2019, a police employee at the Paris police headquarters stabbed four of his colleagues to death and injured two others. He was shot dead by police at the scene.

Attack

During the early afternoon on 3 October 2019, a police employee stabbed six colleagues at the Prefecture of Police on the Île de la Cité in central Paris, killing three police officers and one member of the support staff as well as injuring two others. Police opened fire, killing the attacker in the building's main courtyard. The attack came a day after police went on strike across France over increasing violence towards officers.

Attacker

The attacker was reported as being 45-year-old Mickaël Harpon, an IT specialist who worked in the intelligence unit of the police headquarters for the last 16 years and held a security clearance, giving him access to restricted information like the watchlist of terror suspects, addresses of police officers and data on French citizens and their families who had returned after they fought in the Syrian Civil War. He was born in Fort-de-France in the Caribbean overseas department of Martinique in 1974, and had been deaf since childhood. The murder weapon was a ceramic knife of a type undetectable by metal scanners.

Investigation

Initial reports suggested a workplace dispute was the motive. The day after the attack, a counter-terrorism investigation was opened, looking into whether the attacker was a radicalised Islamist and the possibility that he may have been in contact with or received support from any terrorist groups. The perpetrator had converted to Islam; according to Paris prosecutor Jean-François Ricard his conversion to Islam took place a decade prior. He attended mosque rituals twice a day. Colleagues had reported Harpon in 2015 for voicing support for the attack on Charlie Hebdo; nothing was done.

The counter-terrorism head said that the attacker had radical and extremist religious views, that started when he justified some violent acts with an Islamist background, stopped wearing Western clothes and to not talking to women excluding those of his family. Ties between Harpon and Salafist men were also confirmed. Before starting the attack, Harpon communicated with his wife, and they exchanged a total of 33 messages. Among those, Harpon wrote "Allah Akbar" and "Follow our much-loved Prophet Muhammad, and meditate on the Quran".

A USB flash drive was found at Harpon's office: propaganda material from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, including beheading videos, and details of police officers who worked with him were found inside it. Officers investigated possible links with the 2016 Magnanville stabbing, in which two police officers were killed at their home by Larossi Abballa, an Islamist who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. Investigation of Harpon's computer and phone revealed that he searched the internet for "how to kill infidels" shortly before the attack.

Five people linked to the attacker were arrested on 14 October 2019. Among those five was an imam listed in the Fiche S, a list of individuals deemed potential security threats.

France Inter reported in October 2019 that the investigators suspected that the attack was the result of a suicidal delirium, and that the ISIL videos on the USB drive found at Harpon's office belonged to his coworkers. In February 2020 Le Parisien reported that technical investigation of Harpon's private computer and cellphone confirmed that the attack was terrorist in nature and that sources close to the investigation described a "hybrid profile" of terrorism and psychiatric issues. Europol classified the attack as jihadist terrorism in their annual EU Terrorism Situation and Trend report (TE-SAT) released in June 2020.

Political reaction

Following the incident, the police headquarters building was visited by President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. The Île de la Cité was placed under a lockdown and the Cité station of the Paris Métro, located on the island, was closed to passengers. Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner faced calls to resign, which he rejected.

Castaner received calls for his resignation from numerous prominent politicians from the entire spectrum from the extreme left to the extreme right. Castaner had said in a press conference that the attacker had never shown any conspicuous behaviour. A day after this statement, when it became public that his coworkers had filed a complaint and that there was no investigation, Castaner said there were "malfunctions" that failed to prevent the attack.

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^ Dalton, Matthew (7 October 2019). "France Rocked by Extremist's Counterterror Role". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 7 October 2019.
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Islamic terrorism in Europe

General

Attacks

East

North

United Kingdom	2005 London bombings Glasgow Airport attack Murder of Lee Rigby 2017 Westminster attack Manchester Arena bombing 2017 London Bridge attack Parsons Green train bombing 2019 London Bridge stabbing 2020 Streatham stabbing 2020 Reading stabbings Murder of David Amess

South

West

2020 Vienna attack

Belgium	Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting 2016 Brussels bombings 2016 stabbing of Charleroi police officers 2016 stabbing of Brussels police officers June 2017 Brussels attack August 2017 Brussels attack 2018 Liège attack
France	Air France Flight 8969 1995 bombings Toulouse and Montauban shootings 2013 La Défense attack 2014 Tours police station stabbing 2015 Île-de-France attacks Charlie Hebdo shooting Hypercacher siege 2015 Nice stabbing Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack 2015 Thalys train attack 2015 Paris attacks 2016 Paris police station attack 2016 Magnanville stabbing 2016 Nice truck attack 2016 Normandy church attack 2017 Orly Airport attack 2017 Champs-Élysées attack 2017 Notre Dame attack 2017 Champs-Élysées ramming Levallois-Perret attack 2017 Marseille stabbing Carcassonne and Trèbes attack 2018 Paris knife attack 2018 Strasbourg attack 2019 Lyon bombing Paris police headquarters stabbing 2020 Romans-sur-Isère knife attack 2020 Paris stabbing attack Murder of Samuel Paty 2020 Nice stabbing Rambouillet knife attack
Germany	2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting Hanover stabbing Würzburg train attack 2016 Ansbach bombing 2016 Berlin truck attack 2017 Hamburg knife attack 2020 Dresden knife attack
Netherlands	Murder of Theo van Gogh 2018 Amsterdam stabbing attack 2019 Utrecht tram shooting

Counter-
terrorism

Operations	Opération Sentinelle, France Operation Vigilant Guardian, Belgium Operation Temperer, UK
Raids	2014 anti-terrorism operations in Norway January 2015 anti-terrorism operations in Belgium Brussels lockdown 2016 Brussels police raids 2015 Saint-Denis, France raid 2017 Saint Petersburg raid

v t e Mass stabbing incidents in the 2010s
2010	Nanping school (23 Mar) Leizhou school (28 Apr) Taixing school (29 Apr) Zibo kindergarten (4 Aug)
2011	New York City (11–12 Feb) Jersey family (14 Aug) Gongyi, Henan (14 Sep)
2012	Chenpeng Village Primary School (14 Dec)
2013	Etajima (14 Mar) Shanghai school (27 Mar) Lone Star College (9 Apr) Abu Musallam (23 Jun) Spring High School (4 Sep) Brooklyn family (26 Oct) Valdresekspressen bus (4 Nov)
2014	Kunming station (1 Mar) Changsha (14 Mar) Franklin Regional High School (9 Apr) Calgary (15 Apr) Guangzhou (6 May) Taipei Metro (21 May) Isla Vista (23 May) Takizawa AKB48 (25 May) Dongfang Primary School (1 Sep) Jerusalem synagogue (18 Nov) Cairns (18–19 Dec)
2015	Broken Arrow (22–23 Jul) Jerusalem (30 Jul) Västerås IKEA (10 Aug) Trollhättan school (22 Oct) University of California, Merced (4 Nov) Tel Aviv synagogue (19 Nov) Leytonstone, London (5 Dec)
2016	Gage Park, Chicago (2 Feb) Ohio restaurant (11 Feb) Dunbarton High School (23 Feb) Thane (28 Feb) Haikou school (29 Feb) Tel Aviv (8 Mar) Grafing station (10 May) Silver City (10 May) Birstall – Jo Cox (16 Jun) Sacramento (26 Jun) Würzburg train (18 Jul) Sagamihara (26 Jul) Russell Square, London (3 Aug) Pioz (17 Aug) Home Hill (23 Aug) Hubei school (29 Aug) St. Cloud (17 Sep) Guangxi school (23 Sep) Yema, Yunnan (29 Sep) Beiguan Primary School (25 Nov) Ohio State University (28 Nov)
2017	Düsseldorf station (9 Mar) Portland train (26 May) London Bridge (3 Jun) Halamish family (21 Jul) Hamburg supermarket (28 Jul) Turku (18 Aug)
2018	Perm (15 Jan) Shaanxi school (27 Apr) Pubei Road, Shanghai (28 Jun) Chongqing kindergarten (26 Oct) Manchester Victoria station (31 Dec)
2019	Kawasaki (28 May) Săpoca Hospital (18 Aug) Kuopio school (1 Oct) Paris, France (3 Oct) London Bridge (29 Nov) Monsey, New York (28 Dec)
See also	List of school attacks in China
Before 2010 2020s

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