Robin Brayton also wisely points out the long sad history of terrorism in France thus proving again that this is no a turning point so no, you dont have to lose all your freedoms or even hate your neighbor with the different name…BBC, a retraction for calling this awful event unprecedented? Robin Brayton: This is a list of terrorist attacks in France in peacetime from 1800 to the present. Several 19th-century French rulers were targeted in unsuccessful assassination attempts which killed numerous innocent bystanders. Since 1961, more than 100 people have been killed and over 600 injured in terrorist attacks carried out by a variety of groups from the extreme right, extreme left, extreme Basque, Breton and Corsican nationalists, Algerian insurgent groups and Islamist extremists.[1] Most of the attacks have been bombings utilising improvised explosive devices (IEDs), of which the bloodiest was the 1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing carried out by pro-colonialist French nationalists during the Algerian War. It remains the worst terrorist incident in France since the end of the Second World War. During the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s, insurgents from the Armed Islamic Group carried out a series of major attacks against the Paris public transport system. Nationalist extremists from the Basque, Breton and Corsican communities carried out a number of assassinations and targeted bomb attacks in the 1990s and 2000s. Islamist extremists have carried out several shooting and stabbing attacks in the 2010s, of which the Charlie Hebdo shooting in January 2015 has been the bloodiest single incident to date (and the second worst terrorist attack in modern French history).[1] The worst terrorist attack in terms of the number of French victims was the 19 September 1989 bombing of UTA Flight 772 over Niger, in which 170 people died, 54 of them French citizens.[2]
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