Ongoing Government of France Islamic State Al-Qaeda European militias Jihadism (Islamic terrorism) and Antisemitism Emmanuel Macron (President 2017–present) François Bayrou (Prime Minister 2024–present) Bruno Retailleau (Minister of the Interior 2024–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) Nicolas Vaujour (Chief of the Naval Staff 2023–present) Jérôme Bellanger (Chief of the Air and Space Force Staff 2024–present) Ayman al-Zawahiri † Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (Leader of IS) Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi † Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi † Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi †[1] Terrorism in France refers to the terrorist attacks that have targeted the country and its population during the 20th and 21st centuries.

In 1961, the Organisation armée secrète or OAS, a right-wing terrorist group that protested Algerian independence from France, launched a bomb attack on board a Strasbourg–Paris train which killed 28 people.

In an attempt to frame Jewish extremists for the Cagnes-sur-Mer bombing, the terrorists left leaflets bearing Stars of David and the name Masada at the scene, with the message "To destroy Israel, Islam has chosen the sword.

[28][29] (2 days) In 2015, a 25-year-old Moroccan man known as a member of the radical Islamist movement attempted to open fire with an AK47 assault rifle while on a high speed train one hour from Paris.

[110] See: 2015 Thalys train attack Towards the end of March 2016, police arrested a Paris citizen named Reda Kriket, and upon searching his apartment, they discovered five assault rifles, a number of handguns, and an amount of chemical substances that could be used to make explosives.

[113] Writing in Le Figaro attorney Gilles-William Goldnadel characterized the public prosecutor's decision not to investigate a crime, Murder of Sarah Halimi as terrorism, as "purely and simply ideological", asserting that the killer, who recited verses from the Quran before breaking into an apartment and murdering a Jewish woman, "had the profile of a radical Islamist, and yet somehow there is a resistance to call a spade a spade".