Chronology of terrorist attacks in Europe

European metropies in recent years have been in the scene of terror. A chronology of terrorist attacks in Europe.

August 2017, Barcelona

On the boulevard, frequented by tourists La Rambla, a vehicle stormed the masses. Police are talking about terrorist attacks. Twelve victims, 80 wounded.

June 2017, London

A supply car, according to police records late in the evening at the London Bridge, raided a group of pedestrians. The vehicle travels to Borough Market mall. There three bombers attack people with a knife. In all, seven people are injured. “Islamic State” takes responsibility for the attack.

May 2017, Manchester

After a pop concert by American singer Ariana Grande, the renowned police singer Selman Abednego is blown up. It kills 23 people and wounds another 120. Many of the dead are children, the youngest of eight years old. It is the worst attack in Great Britain since 2005.

April 2017, Paris

A person opens fire on the police bus. The attack occurs on the Champs-Élysées Avenue in the evening. The bus driver dies during the assassination, three passersby find their death. The athlete is shot by police patrol. The investigative authorities are talking about Islamist motives.

April 2017, Stockholm

A parked truck raided a market center in the Swedish capital at first toward mass and then at a warehouse. Five people get killed, 15 get injured. That same day police arrest a 35-year-old Uzbeka suspected of terrorism.

March 2017, London

A bomber assaults passersby on a bridge in downtown London and then stabs a policeman to death. From the victims on the bridge four find death from the wounds. Order forces kill the bomber.

December 2016, Berlin

Just before Christmas, the German capital is targeted by a terrorist attack. Twelve people find death when the bomber, a follower of the “Islamic State” drives a truck among the mass of people on the Christmas market. A few days later, 24-year-old Tunisia is shot by police during a raid near Milan

July 2016, Nice

A bomber runs a truck on the beach boulevard in Nice. 86 people find death, over 400 injured. The Islamic State, according to data from its information body “Amac”, is responsible for the assassination.

March 2016: Belgium in shock after bomb attacks

A series of bomb attacks at the airport and at the subway station affect Belgium to the core. 20 people died on the subway and 14 others at Zaventem Airport. Prime Minister Charles Michel four hours after the assassinations in Brussels confirmed that they were terrorist attacks.

November 2015: Paris in shock

During co-ordinated attacks in Paris, 129 people die and another 300 are injured. The responsibility for the assassinations was claimed by the terrorist militias of “Islamic State”. Some bombers almost simultaneously conduct six attacks in bars and restaurants, as well as in a shopping mall and a concert hall.

January 2015: Attack on Press Freedom

Two candidates run into the editorial environments of the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” in Paris and kill twelve people. A hostage action ends with four dead in one basket. All bombers are shot by law enforcement.

May 2014: Syrian Returner Kills

At the entrance of the Hebrew Museum in Brussels, an armed person kills four people. The athlete wasn't a stranger. He had radicalized in prison and had fought as jihadists in Syria for a year.

May 2013: Case Lee Riggby

British soldier Lee Riggby is hit by a car in a suburb of London and then killed by people in the car with knives and satters. After the act, the handbills don't leave, but they allow themselves to be filmed by passersby.

July 2012: Terror Reachs Bulgaria

Attacking a tourist bus with Israeli tourists kills seven people, 30 people are injured. After that, Lebanese-shiite Hisbollah organisation becomes responsible for the attack.

March 2012 Soldiers Targeted

In Toulouse, France, a soldier is killed by being shot in the head correctly placed in the mark. Four days later, four murders follow. In a letter, the handbill writes, he will retaliate against the French Army mission in Afghanistan.

March.2012: Even Jews Targeted

In another attack, Tulouse bomber kills a teacher and three children before a school. He has radicalised in the thalafiste groups and describes himself as a holy warrior mandated by al-Qaeda.
Rückblende 2015 (picture alliance/dpa/J. MacDougal)

March 2011: Germany Targeted

Atentator Arid Uka hits a bus with unarmed US soldiers at Frankfurt airport. He kills two soldiers and three other people are seriously injured. This assassination is considered the first Islamist attack in Germany.

November 2011: Attacking satire

French satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” after critical publications of Islam fall victim to an attack. Molotov bottles jump overnight from windows to editorial facilities. No one gets hurt.

December 2010: Fear of Terror in Sweden

A car explodes on a street corner in downtown Stockholm. Shortly thereafter, a suicider is blown up. Fate in disaster: there are only wounded and no dead after the attacks.

July 2007: Attacking the Airport

A day after British police prevented an attack by a bomb vehicle in London, a four - wheel drive rushes into the check room at Glalsgou Airport and fires. Five people are seriously injured.

July 2005: London in shock

Almost simultaneously, four bombers activate on London buses and subways the bombs carrying their backpacks. As a result of this bloody attack, 52 people lose their lives, hundreds are injured. The act remains unpunished, three of the involved were released.

November 2004: Satirik murder

Director, public and satirical Theo van Gogh is threatened with murder after his film shows “Submission” on the oppression of women from Islam and killed in Amsterdam in the middle of the road by an Islamist.

March 2004: Bomb assassinations on trains

Ten bombs explode on local trains packed with passengers in Madrid, resulting in the death of 191 people and more than 1800 injured. A Spanish court sentences 21 out of 28 Al-Qaeda bombers to more than 40,000 years in prison.

November 2003: Terror in Istanbul

During a bomb attack on the British Embassy and a British bank in Istanbul, 33 people are killed, over 400 injured. Against 73 Islamists identified as bombers and against 40 surviving bombers, prison sentences are imposed.

November 2003: Synagogues Targeted

In Istanbul they find 23 people dead during suicide bomber attacks on the two largest synagogues in this metropolis. At the same time, 300 people are seriously injured by the explosion of several frequent car bombs on the streets.