EuropeFactbox: Deadly attacks in France
Reuters
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An attacker with a knife stabbed to death a female police worker in Rambouillet, near Paris on Friday. read more
Here are some other attacks that have taken place in France
- Oct 29, 2020 - A knife-wielding Tunisian man shouting âAllahu Akbarâ (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in the French city of Nice before being shot and taken away by police.
- Oct. 16, 2020 - School teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on the street of a Paris suburb. Paty had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on freedom of expression, angering some Muslim parents. Muslims believe that any depiction of the Prophet is blasphemous. Police shot dead the 18-year-old attacker of Chechen origin.