Islamic State affiliated terrorist attacks in France

Ongoing Emmanuel Macron (President 2017–present) Michel Barnier (Prime Minister 2024-present) Gabriel Attal (Prime Minister 2024) Élisabeth Borne (Prime Minister 2022–2024) Gérald Darmanin (Minister of the Interior 2020–present) Sébastien Lecornu (Minister of the Armed Forces 2022–present) Thierry Burkhard (Chief of the Defence Staff 2021–present) Pierre Schill (Chief of the Army Staff 2021–present) Pierre Vandier (Chief of the Naval Staff 2020–present) Stéphane Mille (Chief of the Air and Space Force Staff 2021–present) French Armed Forces Islamic State military ISIL-related terrorist attacks in France refers to the terrorist activity of the Islamic State in France, including attacks committed by Islamic State-inspired lone wolves.

Reportedly, the Islamic State has called on its supporters for a coordinated wave of attacks in European countries.

[citation needed] On 1 January 2016, a 29-year-old Frenchman of Tunisian descent rammed over a civilian and a guard in an entrance of a mosque in Valence, Drôme, reportedly while chanting, "Allahu Akbar!"

[citation needed] On 11 January 2016, a 15-year-old Turkish boy attacked a teacher from a Jewish school in Marseille with a machete, apparently attempting to decapitate him.

[clarification needed][citation needed] On 13 June 2016, in the 2016 Magnanville stabbing, a police officer and his wife, a police secretary, were stabbed to death in their home in Magnanville, France, located about 55 km (34 mi) west of Paris, by a man convicted in 2013 of associating with a group planning terrorist acts.

[13] On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19 tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people and the injuries of 434 others.

[16][17] On 3 February 2017, in the 2017 Louvre machete attack, an Egyptian national in France on a tourist visa was shot as he rushed a group of French soldiers guarding a principal entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, attacking and injuring one soldier with a machete.

[19][20] Immediately after his arrest, the suspect told authorities that he was carrying spray paint in order to deface the museum's artwork, an act that he regarded as a "symbolic" attack on France.

The attacker, a 39-year-old man identified as Ziyed Ben Belgacem,[25] was shot dead after attempting to seize a weapon from a soldier patrolling the airport under Opération Sentinelle.

The officer and the attacker, a 40-year-old Algerian graduate student who had left a video pledging allegiance to ISIL, were both injured.

The perpetrator was arrested, and a source stated that the man carried out the attack to "avenge events in Palestine".

At the end of 2015, the INSEE forecasts that the terrorist attacks of November will cause a 0.1% decrease in the country's GDP for the last part of the year.

Following the week of the 13th, restaurants (especially gourmet ones), cinemas, museums (including the Louvre and Grand Palais) and fashion galleries (such as Lafayette and Printemps Haussman) experienced a downfall of visitor rate up to 50%.

The book A Moveable Feast, written by Ernest Hemingway, describing the delightful Parisian life in the 1920s, sold 125,400 copies instead of the expected 3000.

Book stores quickly experienced a shortage, thus thousands of copies were printed to respond to the unprecedented demand.