Militant Incidents in France (2014)

1. Jan. 18 – Assailants set off an incendiary bomb at a cattle market in Lezay, in the Deux-Sèvres department. The JDF claimed responsibility for the attack. [NR]
2. Jan. 22 – A bomb exploded outside a state revenue office in the city of Aix-en-Provence, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, causing only minor damage. The FLNP asserted responsibility for the attack. [AP]
3. Feb. 06 – A café was badly damaged in a bomb explosion in the town of Corte, in the Haute-Corse department. [F3]
4. Feb. 09 – Attackers hurled an incendiary bomb at the building housing a Christian Scientist association in the city of Pau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department. The GADI claimed responsibility for the incident. [SO]
5. Feb. 14 – Unknown assailants hurled a firebomb at a social security office in the city of Nantes, in the Loire-Atlantique department. [OF]
6. Feb. 15 – Thugs hurled a firebomb at an employment office and set fire to eight parked cars in Nantes, in the Loire-Atlantique department. The attackers later also hurled an incendiary bomb at a passing police vehicle. No one was hurt in the incidents. [OF]
7. Feb. 26 – Muslim thugs assaulted and injured a Jewish man outside his home in the Thiais suburb of Paris, in the Val-de-Marne department. [CFCA]
8. Mar. 10 – About thirty thugs hurled firebombs at the town hall and smashed more than twenty parked cars with bats in Behren-lès-Forbach, in the Moselle department. [F3 & Fig]
9. Mar. 13 – Three cars were set alight by a group of about twenty thugs in the Perseigne suburb of Alençon, in the Orne department. [F3]
10. Mar. 15 – Attackers set fire to two vehicles belonging to the mayor’s cleaning company in Rodilhan, in the Gard department. The ALF claimed responsibility for the attack. [ML]
11. Mar. 15 – Thugs threw an incendiary bomb and rocks at a passing police vehicle in the Parisian suburb of Grigny, in the Essonne department. Nobody was hurt in the incident. [Fig & Par]
12. Mar. 16 – Attackers set fire to two telephone service cabins in Bessières, in the Haute-Garonne department, causing only damage. The CAV claimed responsibility for the incidents. [F3]
13. Mar. 17 – A group of thugs set fire to trash bins and subsequently attacked policemen arriving at the scene with firebombs and stones in the Poissy suburb of Paris, in the Yvelines department. [Par]
14. Mar. 20 – Unknown assailants hurled a firebomb at a bank in the Fontenilles suburb of Toulouse, in the Haute-Garonne department. [Dep]
15. Mar. 20 – A Jewish teacher was injured in an assault by unknown attackers in the city of Paris. No further information was available. [CFCA & Hrtz]
16. Mar. 29 – African thugs assaulted and slightly injured a Jewish as he was walking home in Sarcelles, in the Val-d’Oise department. [CFCA]
17. Apr. 02 – A parked car was set alight by thugs in Versailles, in the department of Yvelines. Assailants later hurled a firebomb at a police vehicle as security personnel investigated the scene. [Actu]
18. Apr. 03 – Two off-duty policemen were attacked with stones by a group of thugs as they were traveling home from work in the Parisian Rosny-sous-Bois suburb, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. [Par]
19. Apr. 28 – A group of approximately fifteen thugs hurled firebombs and stones at a police unit in the city of Beauvais, in the Oise department. Nobody was hurt in the incident. [Par]
20. May 16 – About twenty thugs hurled firebombs and stones at a police patrol in the Grigny suburb of Paris, in the Essonne department. No one was injured in the attack. [Fig & Par]
21. May 17 – Assailants set fire to a police station in the Grésilles suburb of Dijon, in the Côte-d’Or department, causing only minor damage. [BP]
22. May 18 – A police vehicle was attacked with incendiary bombs, rocks and iron bars by a group of thirty thugs in Grigny, in the Essonne department. The officers escaped unharmed. [Fig & Par]
23. May 24 – Two Jewish men were injured in an assault by Muslim thugs outside a synagogue in the Parisian suburb of Créteil, in the Val-de-Marne department. [20M & CFCA]
24. Jun. 05 – Assailants hurled at least seven firebombs at a detention center for illegal immigrants in Cornebarrieu, in the Haute-Garonne department. Anarchists were responsible for the incident. [F3]
25. Jun. 12 – A police station was sprayed with gunfire by militants near the city of Bastia, in the Haute-Corse department. No casualties were reported in the incident. [F3]
26. Jun. 12 – A group of thirty thugs hurled stones at policemen as they were arresting two drugs dealers in the Moulins suburb of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department. Two officers were injured in the incident. [F3]
27. Jun. 13 – Assailants hurled firebombs at a police station in the town of Uzel, in the Côtes-d’Armor department, causing only minor damage. The ARB claimed responsibility for the attack. [20M, AFP, F3 & Fig]
28. Jun. 13 – About fifteen thugs hurled several homemade firebombs at a police station in the Saint-Augustin suburb of Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department. [F3]
29. Jun. 13 – Militants threw several firebombs at a police station in Huelgoat, in the Finistère department. The ARB asserted responsibility for the incident. [20M, AFP, F3 & Fig]
30. Jun. 27 – Unknown attackers hurled a firebomb at a courthouse in the Créteil suburb of Paris, in the Val-de-Marne department. [Par]
31. Jun. 29 – A house under construction was damaged in a bomb explosion triggered by Corsican nationalist militants in Bonifacio, in the Corse-du-Sud department. [20M & F3]
32. Jul. 11 – Attackers hurled a homemade firebomb at a synagogue in the Parisian suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. [BFMTV, CFCA, Dep, F3, Fig, Mon & Par]
33. Jul. 13 – Muslim thugs assaulted Jewish men who tried to prevent them from ransacking a synagogue in the city center of Paris. Three Jews were wounded in the incident. [CFCA]
34. Jul. 16 – A small bomb exploded at a butcher shop near Lozari, in the Haute-Corse department, damaging the interior of the store. [CM]
35. Jul. 20 – About a dozen thugs hurled firebombs at a tram in the Pontanézen suburb of Brest, in the Finistère department. No one was injured in the incident. [20M, F3, Fig, OF & Par]
36. Jul. 20 – A group of approximately ten thugs set fire to a trash can and subsequently attacked policemen with firebombs and stones as the arrived at the scene in the Chelles suburb of Paris, in the Seine-et-Marne department. No casualties were reported in the incident. [Par]
37. Jul. 26 – Thugs hurled several incendiary bombs at a synagogue in the city of Toulouse, in the Haute-Garonne department. Nobody was hurt in the incident. [CFCA, Dep, F3, Fig & Par]
38. Jul. 29 – Twelve vehicles of the municipal technical service were set on fire by thugs in the Châteauvert neighborhood of Valence, in the Drôme department. [FB]
39. Aug. 12 – A Jewish man was injured in an assault by an attacker as he entered his apartment building in the city of Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. [CFCA]
40. Aug. 21 – A group of approximately twenty thugs hurled at least six firebombs and threw stones at policemen who responded to a distress call in the Grigny suburb of Paris, in the Essonne department. [Par]
41. Sep. 03 – Thugs hurled a firebomb at a passing police vehicle in the Poissy suburb of Paris, in the Yvelines department. The attackers also burnt six parked vehicles elsewhere in the suburb. [Par]
42. Sep. 14 – Terrorists bombed and damaged at the nightclub at a resort complex near Cargèse, in the Corse-du-Sud department. Nobody was hurt in the blast. [F3 & F24]
43. Sep. 20 – Nationalist thugs threw three firebombs at a house where dozens of Egyptian illegal immigrants lived in the city of Calais, in the Pas-de-Calais department. [F3]
44. Oct. 05 – Thugs crashed a car into a media library and subsequently set it alight in the Parisian suburb of Corbeil, in the Essonne department, causing major damage. [BFMTV & Par]
45. Oct. 20 – Assailants set fire to a car which they had crashed into a high school building in the Corbeil suburb of Paris, in the Essonne department. [OF & Par]
46. Oct. 24 – Three policemen were injured when a group of thugs pelted their vehicle with stones in the Parisian suburb of Corbeil, in the Essonne department. [20M, Par & Rép]
47. Oct. 28 – Unidentified assailants set fire to a police vehicle parked outside the town hall in Lesneven, in the Finistère department. [Tél]
48. Oct. 30 – Unknown thugs hurled two homemade firebombs at a police station in the Nanterre suburb of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. [Par]
49. Oct. 30 – Thugs set fire to street furniture and subsequently attacked police with firebombs and stones as they arrived at the scene in the town of Vannes, in the Morbihan department. The assailants also attempted to burn a police station. [F3]
50. Nov. 02 – A group of thugs hurled incendiary bombs at policemen who responded to a distress call in the town of Albertville, in the Savoie department. No one was hurt in the incident. [Dau]
51. Nov. 07 – Muslim thugs threw a firebomb at a Jewish restaurant in the city center of Paris, causing only minor damage. [CFCA]
52. Nov. 08 – An attacker hurled two homemade firebombs at the headquarters of the state anti-terrorism agency in Levallois-Perret, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. [F3, Fig & Par]
53. Nov. 08 – Dozens of thugs set fire to approximately twenty parked cars and street furniture in the city of Blois, in the Loire-et-Cher department. [NR]
54. Nov. 11 – Militants set fire to eleven vehicles of a meat processing company in the town of Gourdon, in the Alpes-Maritimes department. The ALF claimed responsibility for the attack. [Dep, F3 & SO]
55. Nov. 19 – Two officers were injured when a band of about twenty thugs hurled rocks at a police vehicle in Nanterre, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. [Par]
56. Nov. 22 – A group of thugs hurled at least twelve homemade firebombs at a community center in the Parisian suburb of Blanc-Mesnil, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. [Fig & Par]
57. Nov. 26 – A café was damaged in a bomb explosion in the village of Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano, in the Corse-du-Sud department. [F3]
58. Nov. 30 – Suspected ARB militants threw an incendiary bomb at an office of the social-democratic PS party in the town of Carhaix, in the Finistère department, causing only damage. [Dep]
59. Dec. 05 – Thugs hurled a firebomb at a passing police vehicle in the Parisian suburb of Plaisir, in the Yvelines department. Nobody was injured in the attack. [Par]
60. Dec. 08 – A group of thugs crashed a car into a school and subsequently set fire to the vehicle in Corbeil, in the Essonne department. [OF]
61. Dec. 15 – A bomb exploded outside a cultural center in the town of Corte, in the Haute-Corse department. No one was hurt in the incident. [F3]
62. Dec. 20 – Three officers were injured when an Islamist assailant attacked them with a knife at a police station in the city of Tours, in the Indre-et-Loire department. [AFP]
63. Dec. 21 – An Islamist militant deliberately hit pedestrians with his vehicle in the city of Dijon, in the Côte-d’Or department. Eleven civilians were wounded in the incident. [AFP, BBC, Par & Reut]
64. Dec. 30 – A small bomb exploded at house under construction in the village of Vescovato, in the Haute-Corse department. [20M & F3]

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)