Militant Incidents in France (2012)

1. Jan. 06 – Dozens of thugs hurled firebombs and stones at police forces who arrived at the site where youths were disrupting traffic in the Parisian suburb of Grigny, in the Essonne department. No one was hurt in the incident. [Par]
2. Jan. 21 – A band of about thirty thugs hurled firebombs at vehicles parked outside a Renault car dealership in the Wiesberg suburb of Forbach, in the Moselle department. The assailants also vandalized other parked cars, electricity booths and street furniture during their rampage. [RL]
3. Feb. 03 – An officer sustained injuries when thugs set fire to a trash bin and subsequently hurled stones at policemen who arrived at the scene in the Mézereaux suburb of Melun, in the Seine-et-Marne department. [Par]
4. Feb. 07 – Unknown assailants hurled a firebomb at an office of the child protection service in the Parisian suburb of Corbeil, in the Essonne department, causing considerable damage. [Fig & Par]
5. Feb. 17 – Unidentified attackers threw two homemade incendiary bombs at an office of the conservative UMP party in the town of Marmande, in the Lot-et-Garonne department. [Dep]
6. Mar. 05 – Thugs hurled a firebomb at a police station in the city of Rouen, in the Seine-Maritime department. A police vehicle was destroyed in the incident. [Actu & Par]
7. Mar. 06 – A bomb exploded outside the town hall in Calenzana, in the Haute-Corse department, causing only damage. [Fig & Par]
8. Mar. 11 – A gunman shot and killed an off-duty French soldier of North-African descent in the city of Toulouse, in the Haute-Garonne department. [AFP & AP]
9. Mar. 16 – Two French soldiers were killed and another one was critically injured when a gunman shot them as they were withdrawing money from a cash machine in the town of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department. [A7, AFP, AP & Fig]
10. Mar. 17 – Thugs hurled two firebombs at a police station in Capestang, in the Hérault department. No one was hurt in the incident. [ML]
11. Mar. 19 – A gunman fired at a teacher and pupils at a Jewish school in the city of Toulouse, in the Haute-Garonne department. The teacher, his two sons and another pupil were killed in the attack. Two other children were seriously wounded in the shooting. Three of the dead were Israeli nationals. [A7, AFP, AP, Fig & Mon]
12. Mar. 21 – A bomb exploded outside the Indonesian embassy in the city of Paris, damaging several buildings. The attack was attributed to Islamist militants. [AFP, AP & DPA]
13. Mar. 21 – A terrorist fired at policemen who raided his apartment in an attempt to arrest him in the city of Toulouse, in the Haute-Garonne department, injuring two officers and sparking a standoff that lasted well into the following day. The gunman killed himself by jumping out of window as special police forces stormed his hideout. [AP & CNN]
14. Mar. 24 – A gunman fired shots at a Jewish music conservatory in the Parisian suburb of Sarcelles, in the Val-d’Oise department. No one was hurt in the incident. [CFCA]
15. Apr. 01 – Corsican nationalist militants set fire to a car after having crashed the vehicle into the entrance of a local government office in the town of Corte, in the Haute-Corse department. [Par]
16. Apr. 05 – A Jewish businessman was shot and injured by an unknown gunman on a street in the Villeurbanne suburb of Lyon. [CFCA]
17. Apr. 13 – A group of approximately fifteen thugs hurled firebombs and stones at police personnel who responded to reports of disturbances in the Grigny suburb of Paris, in Essonne department. [E1]
18. Apr. 25 – Two officers were injured when a group of thugs hurled rocks at their police vehicles as they responded to a fake distress call in Istres, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. [Fig]
19. Apr. 30 – A band of ten thugs assaulted and wounded a Jewish youth in the city of Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. [CFCA]
20. May 09 – Assailants hurled a firebomb at a passing police vehicle in the city of Trappes, in the Yvelines department. No one was hurt in the incident. [Fig]
21. May 11 – Corsican nationalist militants bombed approximately twenty holiday homes in Aregno, Rogliano, Costello-di-Rostino, Furiani, Macinaggio, Santa-Maria-Poggio and Sisco, in the Haute-Corse department. One of the houses belonged to an Italian family. The FLNC claimed responsibility for the attacks. [CM & DPA]
22. May 11 – Six holiday homes under construction were bombed by militants in Giuncheto, Pietrosella and Sainte-Lucie-de-Porto-Vecchio, in the Corse-du-Sud department. The assailants also bombed the parked car of a mainland Frenchman in Grosseto-Prugna. The attacks were claimed by the FLNC. [20M, CM & DPA]
23. May 16 – A holiday home was damaged in a bomb explosion in Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano, in the Corse-du-Sud department. [CM]
24. May 28 – Unknown assailants bombed and badly damaged a mansion in the village of Lecci, in the Corse-du-Sud department. [AFP, CM & Fig]
25. Jun. 01 – Corsican nationalist militants bombed and slightly damaged a holiday home in Serra-di-Ferro, in the Corse-du-Sud department. [CM & Fig]
26. Jun. 02 – Three Jewish youths were injured when thugs attacked them with bars and a hammer in the Villeurbanne suburb of Lyon. [20M, A7, AFP & CFCA]
27. Jun. 04 – A bomb exploded at a business that produces swimming pools in Porto-Vecchio, in the Corse-du-Sud, causing considerable damage. [20M & Fig]
28. Jun. 10 – A Jewish youth was wounded in an assault by thugs in the Parisian suburb of Sarcelles, in the Val-d’Oise department. [CFCA]
29. Jun. 20 – Thugs hurled three homemade firebombs at a police station in the Bourtzwiller suburb of Mulhouse, in the Haut-Rhin department, slightly injuring one officer. [20M, BFMTV & Reut]
30. Jul. 02 – Militants detonated a bomb at the holiday home of a banker near Bonifacio, in the Corse-du-Sud department. No one was hurt in the blast. The FLNC claimed responsibility for the attack. [20M, CM, Fig & UPI]
31. Jul. 30 – Bands of thugs hurled a firebomb at the entrance of a high school and burnt ten parked vehicles following confrontations with police in the Bourtzwiller suburb of Mulhouse, in the Haut-Rhin department. [Fig]
32. Aug. 13 – A Jewish youth was assaulted and wounded by an attacker in the Créteil suburb of Paris, in the Val-de-Marne department. [CFCA]
33. Aug. 14 – Five officers were injured when attackers fired shots and launched fireworks at police forces during confrontations with a band of about 100 thugs in a suburb of Amiens, in the Somme department. Assailants also pushed a burning car towards the security forces. A school building, a sports center and numerous parked cars were set alight by the thugs during the violence. [Fig]
34. Aug. 20 – A nationalist assailant hurled a homemade firebomb at a mosque in the town of Libourne, in the Gironde department. [20M, F3 & Mon]
35. Aug. 22 – A band of thugs hurled five firebombs at a police vehicle in the Bourtzwiller suburb of Mulhouse, in the Haut-Rhin department. The officers escaped unharmed. The incident occurred during disturbances. [DNA]
36. Aug. 24 – A group of fifteen thugs fired shots, launched fireworks, hurled firebombs and threw rocks at a police vehicle in the Parisian suburb of Grigny, in the Essonne department. Assailants later also fired buckshot and threw rocks at police reinforcements, lightly injuring three officers. [Dep, Fig & Par]
37. Sep. 09 – Militants bombed three supermarkets in Alistro, Bastia and Saint-Florent, in the Haute-Corse department, causing only minor damage. The attacks were claimed by the FLNC. [20M, AFP, DPA & Fig]
38. Sep. 09 – Bombs exploded at a three supermarkets and a large sports store in the city of Ajaccio, in the Corse-du-Sud department, causing only damage. The FLNC claimed responsibility for the attacks. [20M, AFP, DPA & Fig]
39. Sep. 16 – Unidentified assailants hurled two firebombs at a building housing a Protestant Christian association in the Bellefontaine suburb of Toulouse, in the Haute-Garonne department. [Dep]
40. Sep. 16 – A group of more than ten thugs assaulted and injured an off-duty policeman after they had stopped his car in Kingersheim, in the Haut-Rhin department. The victim’s vehicle was set on fire by the assailants. [AFP, AP, Dep, Fig, Par & Reut]
41. Sep. 16 – Militants fired shots at the offices of a local newspaper in the city of Bastia, in the Haute-Corse department. No one was hurt in the attack. [Fig]
42. Sep. 19 – Four civilians were wounded when a bomb exploded at a Jewish shop in the Parisian suburb of Sarcelles, in the Val-d’Oise department. [AP, CFCA & CNN]
43. Sep. 21 – An Arab thug assaulted and injured a Jewish youth on a street in the Sarcelles suburb of Paris, in the Val-d’Oise department. [CFCA]
44. Sep. 27 – A group of thugs set fire to tents, other structures and furniture at an illegal Roma settlement in the city of Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. [RED]
45. Sep. 28 – Militants bombed and badly damaged a holiday home in the town of Cargèse, in the Corse-du-Sud department. [CM & Fig]
46. Oct. 07 – Suspected FLNC militants bombed and damaged a house in the village of Figari, in the Corse-du-Sud department. [CM]
47. Oct. 14 – Unknown assailants hurled a firebomb at offices of an artisans’ association in the Bobigny suburb of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. [Fig & Par]
48. Oct. 19 – Thugs hurled two homemade incendiary bombs at a police station in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. [AFP, F3 & Par]
49. Oct. 23 – Thugs threw a firebomb and stones at policemen who arrived at the site where unruly immigrant youths had assembled in Vigneux-sur-Seine, in the Essonne department. [Par]
50. Oct. 24 – A group of thugs set fire to trash bins and later pelted firefighters arriving at the scene with firebombs and stones in Nogent-sur-Oise, in the Oise department. Nobody was hurt in the incident. [Par]
51. Oct. 31 – Militants bombed and damaged the holiday home of a Swiss family in Bonifacio, in the Corse-du-Sud department. [Fig]
52. Nov. 03 – Gunmen fired shots at a synagogue in the Argenteuil suburb of Paris, in the Val-d’Oise department. Nobody was hurt in the incident. [CFCA]
53. Nov. 12 – Unidentified assailants hurled two firebombs at a high school in the Planoise suburb of Besançon, in the Doubs department. [F3]
54. Nov. 13 – Three Jewish youths were wounded when a band of Arab thugs assaulted them with hammers and iron bars in the Villeurbanne suburb of Lyon. [CFCA]
55. Nov. 19 – A group of thugs assaulted a group of Jewish youths near a high school in the Montreuil suburb of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. One of the youths was wounded in the attack. [CFCA]
56. Nov. 25 – A Jewish youth was assaulted and wounded by a group of Arab thugs at a parking lot in the Parisian suburb of Sarcelles, in the Val-d’Oise department. [CFCA]
57. Nov. 25 – Thugs hurled a firebomb at a tram in the city of Clermont-Ferrand, in the Puy-de-Dôme department. [F3]
58. Dec. 08 – Militants bombed and damaged ten holiday homes in the towns and villages of Borgo, Calvi, Centuri, Favone-Solenzara, Oletta, Santa-Maria-Poghju, Sisco and Tominu, in the Haute-Corse department. The FLNC asserted responsibility for the attack. [AFP, AP, CM, DPA, F3 & Reut]
59. Dec. 08 – At least nine holiday homes were damaged in bomb blasts in the towns and villages of Bonifacio, Coggia, Coti-Chiavari, Pianottoli, Roccapina, Sartène and Zoza, in the Corse-du-Sud department. The attacks were claimed by the FLNC. [AFP, AP, CM, DPA, F3 & Reut]
60. Dec. 11 – A holiday home was slightly damaged in a bomb explosion in Coti-Chiavari, in the Corse-du-Sud department. [Fig]
61. Dec. 22 – A Jewish man was stabbed and wounded by a group of assailants in the city of Paris. [CFCA]
62. Dec. 28 – A bomb exploded at a post office in the village of Migliacciaru, in the Haute-Corse department, causing only damage. [F3]
63. Dec. 29 – Unidentified attackers hurled a firebomb at a makeshift mosque in the town of Barp, in the Gironde department. [Fig, Par & TF1]

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)