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A fact from List of terrorist incidents in France appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 February 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that over 100 people have been killed in terrorist attacks in France since 1961?

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To be included on this stand-alone list, each entry should meet the following list criteria (see discussion):

The incident is notable
The incident has a corresponding stand-alone Wikipedia article
The consensus of reliable sources describe the incident as "terrorism"

Renaming?[edit]

All other articles and categories about terrorist incidents by country are named "Terrorst incidents in ....." or "List of terrorist incidents in.....". What about renaming this article to "List of terrorist incidents in France"?--Antidiskriminator (talk) 12:42, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm OK with doing this. Prioryman (talk) 07:44, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm Jason Scott Hughes, Northern Mayan. I'm curious after the 2016 bombing of France (Which I helped incite), "What do French terrorists call an attack within the French borders?" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CEE9:66F0:ADF6:6ECD:6422:ECF5 (talk) 01:54, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2014 Nantes attack[edit]

I was wondering if this article (2014 Nantes attack) would be included, because even though some aspects point towards terrorism, some aspects point towards a rampage killing as the accused was "unbalanced" and wrote "incoherent suicidal phrases". YingBlanc (talk) 00:08, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

One unfilled reference[edit]

This reference is still bare and needs to be filled in by hand:

http://images.midi.bibliotheque.toulouse.fr/1938/B315556101_MIDSOC_1938_01_12.pdfProcessing error (Fetching error)

Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 04:28, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dispute[edit]

The "270 terrorist attacks in France in 1996" claim is likely wrong. I took a look at the referenced database and seems to have a lot of errors. For instance it claims "resistanze" did 46 separate bombings on January 8th with no injuries or fatalities.

I'm new to these talk pages and hope I did nothing wrong Toende (talk) 03:42, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nice attack[edit]

Why isnt the attack on Nice Bastille day not on here? Allanana79 (talk) 03:48, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What is the standard for "terrorism" here?[edit]

If someone attacks a police officer, is that automatically an act of terror? It seems like we are overdoing it a bit with some of these recent entries. 2602:306:CFEA:170:999C:2DE6:8277:651 (talk) 02:21, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Don't forget that "terrorism" is a term with a specific legal meaning. An attack carried out for political or religious reasons is treated by the law differently from (for example) one motivated by a domestic dispute. The police and security authorities are responsible for deciding whether a particular attack constitutes an act of terrorism; therefore the standard for our purposes is, "do the police and security authorities say this was a terrorist attack?". If they do, then it should be listed. Prioryman (talk) 07:47, 14 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Police and other government authorities are parties to a given dispute. They are not disinterested parties to a dispute. (And if they are disinterested parties to a given dispute, that claim always requires substantiation.) To think otherwise isn't even coherent, let alone desirable. For police or government accounts (within the same governments, or among different governments) might differ. But more fundamentally, if it were otherwise--if police and other government actors were necessarily disinterested--we would always report their side of the story as if it were the accurate version of what actually happened. Rather, a police or government account should always be reported as just that--a police or government account. Alfred Nemours (talk) 00:41, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

20 April 2017 Attack[edit]

"An attack carried out for political or religious reasons" It is almost guaranteed that the attack falls under this description due to being known to anti-terror forces, the raids on the attackers apartment and social media post by the attacker admitting to wanting to attack the police. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryanharmany (talk • contribs) 20:53, 20 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

RfC: terrorist incidents list criteria[edit]

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of terrorist incidents#RfC: List criteria. – Levivich 18:03, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Terrorist attack stabbing 4th April 2020[edit]

There was an islamic terrorist attack in France where two people were stabbed to death on 4th April 2020. "According to witnesses cited by local radio station France Bleu Drome Ardeche, he shouted "Allah Akbar!"(God is Greatest) as he stabbed his victims." - France 24 news. This needs to be added to the list of terrorist incidents.ThePaganUK (talk) 23:14, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Islamic terrorist attack 27th April 2020[edit]

An attack occurred in Paris on 27th April. Two French policemen on motorcycles were crushed by this attack. The perpetrator admitted he 'did it for isis' after the attack. ThePaganUK (talk) 20:51, 28 April 2020 (UTC) Sources: 1) https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/04/28/world/europe/ap-eu-france-car-attack.html 2) https://www.timesofisrael.com/france-investigating-car-ramming-that-injured-3-cops-as-terror-attack/[reply]