The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has updated its “Advice to Travelers” card, warning its citizens against certain destinations.
In this map, all Algeria is described as a “dangerous country”
14 July 2016: Nice targeted during its fireworks
At around 11 pm, when the fireworks on July 14 came to an end, a white truck was driving at full speed in the crowd, which gathered thousands of people, including many foreigners, and rode for nearly two kilometers along The Promenade des Anglais, famous avenue of Nice. At least 84 people are killed, according to a still provisional record, and dozens more injured, of whom 18 are in “absolute emergency”. The driver, who is a 31-year-old Franco-Tunisian living in Nice, was shot dead by the police. According to iTÉLÉ, he was known to police services for petty offenses but not information. The attack has not yet been claimed.
26 July 2016- Two men claiming to be from the Islamic state
Attack the church of SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, in Normandy. Using a knife they kill the priest and seriously wound a hostage before being killed by the security forces.
13 June 2016: two policemen killed in the Yvelines
A police officer at Magnanville, near Paris, and his companion at the Mantes-la-Jolie police station, were murdered at their home. Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, is stabbed in front of his home, his girlfriend Jessica Schneider, 36, slaughtered inside the pavilion by a 25-year-old jihadist. Larossi Abballa, who had claimed his action on Twitter and Facebook on behalf of the EI, is killed by the Raid.
November 2015: the worst terrorist attack on French soil
On Friday, November 13, France suffered the most deadly terrorist attack ever. Around 21:20, a series of seven attacks were perpetrated by seven terrorists in Paris and Saint-Denis, causing the deaths of 129 people and injuring 300, including 99 serious ones. The killing is claimed by the Islamic state. The seven terrorists are killed during the attack. This is the first time that suicide attacks have taken place on French soil.
August 21, 2015: Attack of a Thalys prevented by heroes
A Moroccan national, Ayoub El Khazzani, tries to commit a massacre on a Thalys train that links Amsterdam to Paris. But his weapon stops, and several passengers master it. Two US soldiers are injured. François Hollande handed the Legion of Honor to four men who intervened to stop the attack. The terrorist is arrested by the police.
June 26, 2015: a decapitated boss in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier
Yassin Salhi, a delivery driver in a transportation company, knocks down, strangles and decapitates his boss. He sends a macabre selfie with the head of his victim to Sébastien Yunes a French jihadist in Syria before exposing the head of his victim with a flag of the Islamic state on a fence in an industrial factory in Saint-Quentin -Fallavier, in Isère. Then he throws his van against gas cylinders, causing an explosion. He is arrested by the police. It was linked to the Salafist movement. The Islamic state claims the attack.
19 April 2015: Sid Ahmed Ghlam’s failed attack
Sid Ahmed Ghlam, a 24-year-old computer science student, was arrested on Sunday (April 19th) in the 13th arrondissement of Paris after calling the SAMU for a gunshot wound.
The police suspect the young man of having planned a terrorist attack against two churches of Villejuif (Val-de-Marne). He still managed to make a victim: Aurélie Châtelain, 33 years old, found dead in her car. The young woman, who had the misfortune to find herself on the road to the terrorist, was shot when she tried to resist the robbery of her car.
January 9, 2015: hostage taking at the Hyper Cacher
On Friday, January 9, an accomplice of the brothers Kouachi, Amedy Coulibaly undertakes a hostage taking in a Hyper Cacher located Porte de Vincennes. He killed four people before being shot down by the police. The day before, he killed a municipal police officer in Montrouge. The Islamic state claims the attack.
January 7, 2015: Charlie Hebdo, Montrouge and the Hyper Cacher: 17 victims in Paris
In January for three days, three Islamist terrorists kill seventeen people in Paris, during the attacks of Charlie Hebdo and the taking of hostage of Hyper Cacher, door of Vincennes. These attacks killed 20 people in total, counting the terrorists, shot down by the police. Wednesday 7 January. Like every Wednesday, Charlie Hebdo is on newsstands. Around 11.30 am, two hooded men, dressed in black and armed with Kalashnikovs, entered the premises of the satirical weekly newspaper Rue Nicolas-Appert near the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir in the XIth arrondissement near Place de la Bastille.
2012: Toulouse and Montauban: Mohammed Merah kills 7 people
The attacks committed by Mohammed Merah in March 2012 in Toulouse and Montauban killed seven people, including three soldiers and four civilians, including three children, at the entrance to a Jewish school. In his apartment, Merah was killed on March 22, 2012 during an assault by the RAID police.
