Militant Incidents in France (2015)

1. Jan. 01 – A bomb exploded at the hangar of an olive oil company in the village of Corbara, in the Haute-Corse department, causing only damage. [20M, F3 & Par]
2. Jan. 03 – Assailants hurled five firebombs at a police vehicle parked outside a police station in the Champigny suburb of Paris, in the Val-de-Marne department. [Par]
3. Jan. 04 – Unidentified assailants fired shots at a Jewish restaurant in the city of Paris. No one was hurt in the incident. [CFCA]
4. Jan. 04 – Thugs hurled an incendiary bomb at a police vehicle in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. [Par]
5. Jan. 07 – Two gunmen burst into the offices of a left-wing satirical magazine in the city center of Paris and fired at the people present. Eight employees of the magazine, two police officers and two workers were killed in the attack. Eleven other people, including three journalists and several policemen, were hurt in the shooting. The AQAP claimed responsibility for the incident. [AP, BBC, CNN, Fig, Mon & Reut]
6. Jan. 07 – A man was shot and seriously injured by a militant who had declared loyalty to the DaIISh as he was jogging in a park in Fontenay-aux-Roses, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. [Reut]
7. Jan. 08 – A gunman who had declared allegiance to the DaIISh shot and killed a policewoman on a street in Parisian suburb of Montrouge, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. A street cleaner was seriously hurt in the attack. []
8. Jan. 08 – Unknown assailants fired shots at an informal mosque in Port-la-Nouvelle, in the Aude department. Nobody was hurt in the shooting. [AFF, Ind & Mon]
9. Jan. 08 – A small bomb exploded outside a Muslim restaurant in the town of Villefranche-sur-Saône, in the Rhône department. [AFP]
10. Jan. 08 – A mosque was torched by unknown assailants in Aix-les-Bains, in the Savoie department. No one was hurt in the attack. [DL & Mon]
11. Jan. 08 – Gunmen fired shots at a mosque in the town of Saint-Juery, in the Tarn department. No casualties were reported in the incident. [Mon & TL]
12. Jan. 09 – Nationalist thugs hurled three grenades at a mosque in the city of Le Mans, in the Sarthe department. No one was hurt in the attack. [AFP]
13. Jan. 09 – Two gunmen affiliated with the AQAP burst into a signage factory in Dammartin-en-Goëlle, in the Seine-et-Marne department, and subsequently barricaded themselves in the compound. Both militants were killed as police stormed the facility later that day. [BBC, CNN, Mon, Par & Reut]
14. Jan. 09 – Assailants fired shots at a mosque in the town of Vendôme, in the Loir-et-Cher department. No one was injured in the shooting. [Mon & NR]
15. Jan. 09 – A militant who had declared allegiance to the DaIISh shot and killed four shoppers at a Jewish supermarket in the city of Paris. Seven other civilians were hurt in the attack. The gunman subsequently took several other shoppers hostage. Police later stormed the premises, setting off a gun battle with the terrorist who was killed in the encounter. Two policemen were injured in the shootout. [Reut]
16. Jan. 09 – An unidentified gunman fired five shots at a mosque in the city of Soissons, in the Aisne department. Nobody was hurt in the incident. [CPic, Fig & Mon]
17. Jan. 10 – A Muslim butcher shop was raked with gunfire by unknown attackers in Ghisonaccia, in the Haute-Corse department. [Mon]
18. Jan. 11 – Suspected nationalist thugs torched a mosque in the city of Poitiers, in the Vienne department, causing only damage. [Mon]
19. Jan. 22 – Thugs set fire to a parked vehicle in the Nanterre suburb of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. The attackers subsequently hurled about ten incendiary bombs at policemen who arrived at the scene. [Par]
20. Jan. 24 – The home of a senior member of the social-democratic PRG party was bombed and destroyed by militants in Venzolasca, in the Haute-Corse department. [F3 & RTL]
21. Feb. 03 – Two soldiers were stabbed and injured by an assailant as they guarded a Jewish community center in the city of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department. [20M, AFP, CFCA & Reut]
22. Feb. 03 – Thugs hurled firebombs at policemen responding to two trash bins that were set alight in the Saint-Martin suburb of Vienne, in the Isère department. [F3 & FB]
23. Feb. 06 – Assailants threw a firebomb at a police station in Soissons, in the department of Aisne. Eight parked cars were set alight by the thugs elsewhere in the town. [F3 & Union]
24. Feb. 09 – Gunmen belonging to a criminal organization opened fire at a police car in the Castellane suburb of Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. No one was hurt in the incident. [AFP & Reut]
25. Feb. 26 – Attackers threw two homemade incendiary bombs at a police station in the town of Meylan, in the Isère department. [Dau]
26. Mar. 04 – Unidentified assailants hurled a firebomb at a police station in Faverney, in the Haute-Saône department, causing only damage. [ER]
27. Mar. 08 – Two parked police cars were set alight by unknown assailants in the Parisian suburb of Brétigny, in the Essonne department. [Par]
28. Mar. 23 – Militants bombed and destroyed a house under construction in the village of Vescovato, in the Haute-Corse department. [BFMTV & F3]
29. Mar. 25 – Unidentified assailants set fire to the town hall in Hénin-Beaumont, in the Pas-de-Calais department. Muslim thugs were suspected in the incident. [Loc]
30. Apr. 10 – An attacker stabbed and injured a soldier as he was providing security inside a terminal at the international airport in the Parisan suburb of Orly, in the Val-de-Marne department. [AP]
31. Apr. 12 – A bomb exploded at a holiday home under construction in Figari, in the Corse-du-Sud department, causing only minor damage. [F3]
32. Apr. 19 – A young woman was shot to death by an Islamist gunman as she sat in her car in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif, in the Val-de-Marne department. [AFP]
33. Apr. 22 – Thugs stole a car and subsequently set it on fire next to a police station in the Couronneries neighborhood of Poitiers, in the Vienne department, causing considerable damage. [F3]
34. Apr. 25 – A Jewish man was injured in an assault by thugs as he left a synagogue in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Ouen, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. [CFCA]
35. Apr. 26 – Nationalist assailants torched a mosque in the town of Mâcon, in the Saône-et-Loire department, causing only minor damage. [CCIF & F3]
36. May 05 – A group of thugs firebombed and destroyed fifteen parked cars at four different locations in Besançon, in the department of Doubs. [ER & F3]
37. May 09 – Thugs hurled a firebomb at a passing police vehicle in the Planoise suburb of Besançon, in the Doubs department. The attack took place following disturbances with immigrant youths. [ER]
38. May 13 – A Jewish woman was assaulted and slightly hurt by several African thugs on a street in Sarcelles, in the Val-d’Oise department. [CFCA]
39. May 15 – A youth belonging to the Jewish community was injured in an assault by Muslim thugs on a street in the city of Paris. [CFCA]
40. May 19 – Attackers hurled a firebomb at a police vehicle parked outside a station in the city of Dijon, in the Côte-d’Or department. [F3]
41. May 22 – Unknown assailants set fire to a house owned by a member of the Jewish community in the Moulins suburb of Lille, in the Nord department. [CFCA]
42. May 26 – Thugs hurled a firebomb and threw rocks at a police patrol in the Parisian suburb of Corbeil, in the Essonne department, injuring one officer. [Par]
43. May 28 – The parked car of the mayor’s fiancée was set on fire by militants in the town of Céret, in the Pyrénées-Orientales department. The ALF asserted responsibility for the incident. [Ind & ML]
44. Jun. 01 – Thugs hurled firebombs and stones at a police patrol in the city of Tourcoing, in the Nord department. The assailants also set fire to at least three parked vehicles. The incidents occurred following the death of a man in a police car chase. [Fig & VdN]
45. Jun. 04 – Fourteen parked cars were set alight by thugs in the Bourgogne suburb of Tourcoing, in the Nord department. [20M]
46. Jun. 05 – About thirty thugs hurled firebombs and stones at police patrols responding to reports of a fire in Château-Thierry, in the Aisne department. No one as hurt in the incident. [Actu]
47. Jun. 25 – A disgruntled Cameroonian immigrant threw two firebombs into the city hall in Besançon, in the Doubs department, causing considerable damage. [BFMTV, Dep, ER, Fig & OF]
48. Jun. 26 – An attacker who supported the DaIISh strangled and killed the manager of a delivery company outside a chemicals factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, in the Isère department. The assailant subsequently beheaded the dead body, before entering the facility and crashing his vehicle into gas cylinders. Two workers were hurt in the explosions. [AP & Reut]
49. Jul. 04 – Approximately thirty thugs set fire to a parked car and subsequently attacked policemen with incendiary bombs and stones as they arrived at the scene in Corbeil, in the Essonne department. [Par]
50. Jul. 07 – A Jewish youth was assaulted and injured by a group of African thugs on a street in the city of Paris. [CFCA]
51. Jul. 13 – A band of approximately forty thugs hurled firebombs and other projectiles at a police station in the Ulis suburb of Paris, in the Essonne department. Nobody was hurt in the incident. [Par]
52. Jul. 13 – A group of thugs threw firebombs at a French police compound in the Parisian suburb of Fosses, in the Val-d’Oise department. [Par]
53. Jul. 13 – Thugs hurled two homemade incendiary bombs at policemen who were responding to a distress call in Champs-sur-Marne, in the Seine-et-Marne department. [Par]
54. Jul. 13 – Assailants set fire to street furniture and hurled firebombs at police officers who arrived at the scene in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. Nobody was injured in the incident. [Par]
55. Jul. 14 – Two bombs exploded at a petrochemical plant in the town of Berre-l’Étang, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, sparking a major fire. No one was injured in the incident. [20M, BBC, Lib & OF]
56. Jul. 14 – Thugs indiscriminately hurled firebombs at apartment buildings and parked cars in the Ulis suburb of Paris, in the Essonne department. The attackers also threw an incendiary bomb at a police vehicle as officers arrived at the scene. Nobody was hurt in the incident. [Par]
57. Jul. 14 – A group of thugs threw two homemade incendiary bombs at a police station in Montigny-lès-Cormeilles, in the Val-d’Oise department. [Par]
58. Jul. 14 – Thugs hurled three firebombs at the parked vehicle of the mayor outside her home in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, in the Val-de-Marne department. [AFP, BFMTV, Dep, OF & Par]
59. Jul. 15 – Assailants set fire to a police station in the town of Meylan, in the Isère department, causing considerable damage. [F3]
60. Jul. 15 – Approximately fifty thugs hurled firebombs and other projectiles at police personnel in the Grigny suburb of Paris, in the Essonne department. Seven parked cars were also set alight by the attackers. [Par]
61. Jul. 15 – African thugs raided and pillaged the house of a Jewish family in the Blanc-Mesnil suburb of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. Three family members were assaulted and injured during the incident. [CFCA]
62. Jul. 16 – Two attackers hurled two firebombs at vehicles parked outside a police station in the Félix Pyat suburb of Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. [Prov]
63. Jul. 16 – A group of thugs hurled a firebomb and stones as policemen during an intervention in the Parisian suburb of Chanteloup-les-Vignes, in the Yvelines department. [Par]
64. Jul. 17 – Thugs threw two homemade firebombs at a police station in the Félix-Pyat suburb of Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. Two parked cars were slightly damaged in the incident. [Prov]
65. Jul. 20 – Bands of thugs hurled incendiary bombs and stones at police patrols in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie, in the Yvelines department. Street furniture was also set on fire by the assailants. The violence occurred following a routine police inspection of a vehicle earlier in the day. [Par]
66. Aug. 06 – A holiday home was bombed and damaged by cadres of the FLNC in San-Martino-di-Lota, in the Haute-Corse department. [F3 & Fig]
67. Aug. 06 – Unknown assailants hurled a firebomb at a mosque in the town of Mérignac, in the Gironde department, causing only minor damage. [F3, Fig, Par & SO]
68. Aug. 08 – A band of more than thirty thugs hurled a firebomb and stones at a police patrol in the Parisian suburb of Grigny, in the Essonne department. Nobody was hurt in the attack. [Par]
69. Aug. 16 – A historic synagogue was burnt by unidentified assailants in the town of Maizières-lès-Vic, in the Moselle department. [CFCA & RL]
70. Aug. 20 – A group of anarchist militants hurled a firebomb into a police van as officers were escorting a bailiff near Notre-Dames-des-Landes, in the Loire-Atlantique department. One policeman was injured in the incident. [Actu]
71. Aug. 21 – An Islamist militant fired at passengers aboard a high-speed train as it was traveling near Oignies, in the Pas-de-Calais department, injuring two people. American tourists overpowered the terrorist. One of the Americans was stabbed and injured during the struggle. [AFP, AP & Reut]
72. Aug. 23 – Unidentified assailants set fire to a mosque in the town of Auch, in the Gers department, causing considerable damage. [Actu & Dep]
73. Aug. 28 – Attackers torched a parked car and later hurled four incendiary bombs at police officers and firemen as they arrived at the scene in the Pontanezen suburb of Brest, in the Finistère department. [20M, OF & Tél]
74. Aug. 29 – Unknown assailants hurled a firebomb at a police station in the town of Béthune, in the Pas-de-Calais department, causing only minor damage. [VdN]
75. Oct. 04 – Dozens of thugs set fire to two parked cars and street furniture in the city of Arles, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, and subsequently hurled rocks at policemen and firefighters arriving at the scenes on three separate occasions. In one of the incidents, two policemen were injured and their vehicle was set on fire. [20M, Dep, OF & Par]
76. Oct. 09 – A young Jew was slightly hurt when African thugs assaulted him outside a subway station in Montreuil, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. [CFCA]
77. Oct. 09 – The Jewish director of a university was hurt when an unknown attacker assaulted him as he was walking his dog in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. [CFCA]
78. Oct. 22 – Thugs hurled firebombs at the home of the mayor and a police station in the town of Flers, in the Orne department. Two parked cars were set alight. The incidents occurred following the arrest of two local drugs traffickers. [Actu, FB, F3, OF & TO]
79. Oct. 24 – An assailant stabbed and seriously injured a Jewish woman on a street in the city of Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. [CFCA, Fig & OF]
80. Oct. 24 – About twenty thugs hurled a firebomb and stones at firemen responding to reports of arson in the town of Nogent-sur-Oise, in the Oise department. Nobody was hurt in the incident. The unrest came after police arrested a thief for stealing a motorcycle. [Par]
81. Oct. 31 – Thugs set fire to a trash bin in Limay, in the department of Yvelines, before hurling incendiary bombs at firemen arriving at the scene. No one was injured in the incident. [Par]
82. Nov. 07 – Bands of thugs set fire to street furniture, a parked car and several heavy machines at a construction site in the Haute-du-Lièvre suburb of Nancy, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department. Police officers and firemen responding to the incidents were attacked with firebombs and stones. No one was hurt. [ER]
83. Nov. 07 – Attackers hurled three firebombs at a vacated house home to dozens of illegal immigrants from Africa in the Chantenay suburb of Nantes, in the Loire-Atlantique department. [20M, BFMTV, Dep, F3, Fig & OF]
84. Nov. 11 – Assailants hurled a firebomb at parked cars in the Parisian suburb of Thiais, in the Val-de-Marne department. Three vehicles were destroyed in the incident. [Par]
85. Nov. 13 – A band of militants carried out a series of attacks in Paris and its Saint-Denis suburb. Three suicide bombers blew themselves up at a soccer stadium where a match between the national teams of France and Germany was being played. Other attackers subsequently fired at patrons in bars and restaurants in the city center of Paris, before two other militants opened fire at people attending a rock concert in a theater. Some of the assailants were shot dead by security forces. The attacks left 130 people dead. At least 413 other individuals were wounded in the incidents. The DaIISh asserted responsibility for the attacks. [AP, BBC, CNN, Par, Reut]
86. Nov. 15 – A member of the Turkish community was shot and injured in a drive-by shooting attack by nationalist thugs outside a restaurant in Cambrai, in the Nord department. The assailant later killed himself. [F3 & Reut]
87. Nov. 18 – A Jewish schoolteacher was injured when assailants declaring support for the DaIISh stabbed him outside his home in the city of Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. [AFP, CFCA & Reut]
88. Nov. 18 – A nationalist thug stabbed and slightly injured a young Muslim woman at the entrance of a subway station in the city center of Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. [AFP & Reut]
89. Nov. 18 – Militants belonging to the DaIISh clashed with police forces who besieged the apartment in which they were holed up in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. A suicide bomber blew himself up during the shootout. Five policemen and a civilian were hurt in the incident. Two terrorists were eliminated in the operation. [F24, Par & Reut]
90. Nov. 19 – A member of the Jewish community was slightly injured when assailants beat him with sticks in the city of Paris. [CFCA]
91. Nov. 24 – Thugs destroyed two parked cars in firebomb attacks in the town of Creil, in the Oise department. [Par]
92. Nov. 26 – A mosque was damaged when nationalist thugs hurled several firebombs at the building in the town of Elne, in the Pyrénées-Orientales department. [F3]
93. Dec. 02 – Unidentified assailants tossed a firebomb at the town hall in Mamers, in the Sarthe department. No one was hurt in the incident. [OF]
94. Dec. 03 – Attackers sprayed gunfire at a Muslim butcher shop in Ghisonaccia, in the Haute-Corse department, causing only minor damage. [CM]
95. Dec. 04 – Supporters of the PKK hurled four incendiary bombs at a building housing a Turkish community organization in northern Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. [BFMTV, F3 & Par]
96. Dec. 24 – Two firefighters and a policeman were hurt when Corsican nationalist thugs assaulted them in Ajaccio, in the Corse-du-Sud department. [20M, AFP, AP, OF & Reut]
97. Dec. 25 – Corsican nationalist thugs ransacked an informal mosque in the city of Ajaccio, in the Corse-du-Sud department. Furniture and literature were torched by the assailants. [AFP & AP]
98. Dec. 29 – Two holiday homes were slightly damaged in a bomb explosion near Zonza, in the Corse-du-Sud department. [CM]
99. Dec. 30 – Unidentified assailants hurled a firebomb at a courthouse in the city of Douai, in the Nord department. [VdN]

Actu: Actu France (France), AFP: Agence France Presse (France), AP: Associated Press (America), BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation (Britain), BP: Bien Public (France), CM: Corse Matin (France), CNN: Cable News Network (America), CPic: Courrier Picard (France), Dau: Dauphine (France), Dep: Dépêche du Midi (France), DL: Dauphiné Libéré (France), DNA: Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace (France), E1: Europe 1 (France), ER: Est-Républicain (France), F3: France 3 (France), FB: France Blue (France), FI: France Info (France), GVd’O: Gazette Val d’Oise (France), Hrtz: Haaretz (Israel), JDD: Journal du Dimanche (France), LC: Lyon Capitale (France), Met: Metro News (France), ML: Midi Libre (France), Mon: Monde (France), NM: Nice Matin (France), NR: Nouvelle République (France), OF: Ouest France (France), Par: Parisien (France), Pop: Populaire (France), Prog: Progrès (France), Prov: Province (France), Rép: République (France), RL: Républicain Lorrain (France), Tél: Télégramme (France), TO: Tendance Ouest (France), Union: Union (France), FTV: France Télévisions (France), RL: Républicain Lorrain (France), ToI: Times of Israel (Israel), TL: Tarn Libre (France), VdN: Voix du Nord (France), VM: Var-Matin (France), VoM: Vosges-Matin (France)