Paris attacks may refer to the following: *

1941 Paris synagogue attacks On the night of October 2–3, 1941, six Paris synagogues were attacked and damaged by explosive devices places by their doors between 2:05 and 4:05 am. The perpetrators were identified but not arrested. History On the night of October 2� ...

, 2 and 3 October 1941 * Paris massacre of 1961, of Algerians by police, 17 October 1961 * 1962 Issy-les-Moulineaux bombing, by the OAS, 10 March 1962 * 1974 Paris café bombing, by the PFLP/Carlos the Jackal, 15 September 1974 *

1978 Palace of Versailles bombing Around 2:30 am on Monday, 26 June 1978, the historic Palace of Versailles near Paris, France, was bombed by separatists belonging to the Breton Liberation Front (FLB). The powerful explosion occurred on the ground floor of the left wing of the pa ...

, by the Breton Liberation Front, 26 June 1978 *

1980 Paris synagogue bombing The 1980 Paris synagogue bombing (also called the Rue Copernic attack) occurred on 3 October 1980 when the rue Copernic synagogue in Paris, France was bombed. The attack killed four and wounded 46 people. The bombing took place in the evening near ...

, perhaps by Palestinian nationalists, 3 October 1980 *

1981 Turkish consulate attack in Paris The Turkish consulate attack (also known as Van Operation,Council of Europe, Documents, Vol. 1, May 1984, Report by Amadei, p. 9 hy, «Վան» գործողություն) was an attack on the Turkish consulate in Paris, France, on 24–25 Septem ...

, by Armenian militants, 24 September 1981 *

April 1982 Paris car bombing On 22 April 1982, a powerful car bomb detonated on Rue Marbeuf in the 8th arrondissement of Paris in France during the morning rush hour. It killed a young woman and injured 60 other people. The offices of the Lebanese newspaper Al-Watan al-Arabi ...

, outside the offices of Lebanese newspaper Al-Watan al-Arabi, 22 April 1982 * Goldenberg restaurant attack, at a Jewish restaurant by the Abu Nidal Organisation, 9 August 1982 * September 1982 Paris car bombing, on an Israeli diplomat by the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, 17 September 1982 *

1983 Orly Airport attack The Orly Airport attack was the 15 July 1983 bombing of a Turkish Airlines check-in counter at Orly Airport in Paris, by the Armenian militant organization ASALA as part of its campaign for the recognition of and reparations for the Armenian geno ...

, on Turkish Airlines check-in desk by Armenian militants, 15 July 1983 * Grand Véfour restaurant bombing, by unknown attackers, 23 December 1983 * European Space Agency bombing, by Action Directe, 3 August 1984 *

February 1985 Paris bombing On 23 February 1985, a bomb detonated inside a British-owned Marks & Spencer department store on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, France, killing one person and wounding 15. The fatal victim was an employee at the store, Léonard Rochas, who died ...

, on Marks & Spencer by Palestinian nationalists, 23 February 1985 *

Rivoli Beaubourg cinema bombing On 30 March 1985, a bomb exploded inside the Rivoli Beaubourg cinema in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France, where an annual Jewish film festival was being held. At the time the German film ''Eichmann und das Dritte Reich'' (1961) about the H ...

, at a Jewish film festival by unknown attackers, 30 March 1985 *

1985–86 Paris attacks From 1985 to 1986, a series of terrorist attacks in Paris, France was carried out by the Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA), a previously unknown group, demanding the release of three imprisoned inte ...

, perhaps instigated by Hezbollah, 7 December 1985–17 September 1986 * 1986 Paris police station attack, by Action Directe, 9 July 1986 *Attempted assassination of Alain Peyrefitte, by Action Directe, 15 December 1986 *

Saint-Michel cinema attack On October 22, 1988, an integrist Catholic group set fire to the Saint Michel cinema in Paris while it was showing the film '' The Last Temptation of Christ''. A little after midnight, an incendiary device ignited under a seat in the less supervi ...

, by Christian fundamentalists, 22 October 1988 * 1994 Paris shoot-out (the "Rey-Maupin Affair"), 4 October 1994 *

1995 France bombings The 1995 France bombings were a series of attacks that targeted public transport systems in Paris and Lyon, as well as a school in Villeurbanne. They were carried out by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA), who sought to expand the Algerian ...

, attacks on public transport by the GIA (Armed Islamic Group of ALGERIA), 25 July-17 October 1995 *

1996 Paris RER bombing On 3 December 1996 an IED detonated on the southbound tracks of the Port-Royal Réseau Express Régional (RER) station in Paris, France. Four people were killed in the bombing: two French citizens, a Moroccan and a Canadian. Following the bomb ...

, possibly by the GIA, 3 December 1996 *Attempted assassination of

Jacques Chirac Jacques René Chirac (, , ; 29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. Chirac was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as Ma ...

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, 14 July 2002 * Triple murder of Kurdish activists in Paris, 9-10 January 2013 * November 2013 Paris attacks (on BFM TV, '' Libération'', Société Générale) 15 and 18 November 2013 * January 2015 Île-de-France attacks: ** ''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting, 7 January 2015 ** Hypercacher Kosher Supermarket siege, 9 January 2015 *

November 2015 Paris attacks The November 2015 Paris attacks () were a series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks that took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris, France, and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Beginning at 9:15p.m., three suicide bombers ...

, on the Bataclan Theatre etc., by Islamic terrorists, 13 November 2015 * January 2016 Paris police station attack, by an Islamic terrorist, 7 January 2016 * Louvre machete attack, 3 February 2017 *

2017 Orly Airport attack The March 2017 Île-de-France attacks were a pair of terrorist attacks by the same individual in Garges-lès-Gonesse, an outer suburb of Paris, and at Orly International Airport near Paris on 18 March 2017. The attacker, a 39-year-old man identifi ...

, 18 March 2017 *

April 2017 Champs-Élysées attack On 20 April 2017, three French National Police officers were shot by Karim Cheurfi, a French national wielding an AK-47 rifle on the Champs-Élysées, a shopping boulevard in Paris, France. One officer, French National Police Captain Xavier Jug ...

, 20 April 2017 * Aubervilliers restaurant attack, 11 June 2017 *

June 2017 Champs-Élysées car ramming attack On 19 June 2017, a car loaded with guns and explosives was rammed into a convoy of Gendarmerie vehicles on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. The driver, identified as Djaziri Adam Lotfi was killed as a detonation clouded the car in orange s ...

, 19 June 2017 * 2017 Levallois-Perret attack, 9 August 2017, in the northwestern suburbs of Paris *

2018 Paris knife attack On 12 May 2018, a 20-year-old Chechnya-born French citizen, armed with a knife, killed one pedestrian and injured four others near the Palais Garnier, the opera house in Paris, France, before being fatally shot by police. The stabbings were in ...

, outside the Palais Garnier by an ISIL supporter, 12 May 2018 *

Paris police headquarters stabbing On 3 October 2019, a police employee at the Paris police headquarters stabbed four of his colleagues to death and injured two others. He was shot dead by police at the scene. Attack During the early afternoon on 3 October 2019, a police employ ...

, by a police employee, 3 October 2019 *

2020 Paris stabbing attack On 25 September 2020, two people were injured in a stabbing outside the former headquarters of the French satirical magazine ''Charlie Hebdo'' in Paris. The magazine's headquarters had previously been the site of an Islamic terrorist attack in 2 ...

, outside the '' Charlie Hebdo'' headquarters, 25 September 2020 *

2022 Paris shooting On 23 December 2022, a mass shooting occurred at three Kurdish locations in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, France. Three people were killed, and three others were wounded in and around a Kurdish cultural center on Rue d'Enghien. Investigato ...

, at a Kurdish cultural centre and café, 23 December 2022

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