France has a
population of 65,233,271 and 8.4% or 5.5 million are Muslims. France proper
occupies 212,935 square miles. France, like Britain, already had a large Muslim
population before 2014, when Muslim refugees began to stream into Europe. As
early as 1999, France had 4.2 million Muslims mostly from North African
countries like Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
France has more than
their share of terror attacks and are just now beginning to address the
problem.
2012 - 11-22 March, Toulouse and Montauban: Gunman Mohammed Merah, 23, a French citizen of
Algerian extraction, killed three soldiers on 11 and 15 March, before shooting
three children and a teacher at a Jewish school on 19 March.
2013 - 23 May, La Defense, Paris: A French soldier was stabbed in the neck by a convert to Islam, named as Alexandre Dhaussy. The soldier survived.
2014 - 20 December, Joue-les-Tours: A Burundi-born French national attacked three police officers with a knife, shouting "God is great!" in Arabic. He was shot dead by police.
2015 - 7-9 January, Charlie Hebdo offices and Hypercacher supermarket, Paris:Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi attacked the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing 12 people including the editor and celebrated cartoonists. The following day a policewoman was murdered by Amedy Coulibaly, who then held up a Jewish supermarket, killing four people. The Kouachi brothers and Coulibaly were all killed after separate hostage stand-offs with police.
2016 - 1 January, Valence: A man was shot in south-eastern France after he reportedly drove a car at four soldiers who were guarding a mosque. One of the soldiers was injured, and a stray bullet hit an elderly bystander in the calf.
2013 - 23 May, La Defense, Paris: A French soldier was stabbed in the neck by a convert to Islam, named as Alexandre Dhaussy. The soldier survived.
2014 - 20 December, Joue-les-Tours: A Burundi-born French national attacked three police officers with a knife, shouting "God is great!" in Arabic. He was shot dead by police.
2015 - 7-9 January, Charlie Hebdo offices and Hypercacher supermarket, Paris:Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi attacked the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing 12 people including the editor and celebrated cartoonists. The following day a policewoman was murdered by Amedy Coulibaly, who then held up a Jewish supermarket, killing four people. The Kouachi brothers and Coulibaly were all killed after separate hostage stand-offs with police.
2016 - 1 January, Valence: A man was shot in south-eastern France after he reportedly drove a car at four soldiers who were guarding a mosque. One of the soldiers was injured, and a stray bullet hit an elderly bystander in the calf.
He was eventually killed
on 22 March during a lengthy police siege at his flat in Toulouse.
21 December, Dijon: A driver shouting "God is great" in Arabic ran down pedestrians in Dijon, eastern
France, injuring 11 people.
22 December, Nantes: At a Christmas market in western France, 10 people were injured when a van drove
into pedestrians, before the driver attempted suicide.
3 February, Nice: A man wielding a knife attacked and wounded three soldiers
patrolling outside a Jewish community centre in Nice. The attacker was named as
Moussa Coulibaly, a Malian with no apparent link to the Paris gunman of the
same surname.
19 April, Villejuif, Paris: Sid Ahmed Ghlam, a 24-year-old Algerian
national, was arrested by police after he apparently shot himself by accident.
Investigators believe he was planning attacks on "one or two
churches" in the Paris suburbs. He was charged with terror offences
and the murder of a woman found in a burning car.
26 June, Saint-Quentin-Fallavier: A man was found decapitated and several
others injured at a factory near Lyon. Several explosions were heard and one of
the suspects was arrested by police. French President Francois Hollande has
described it as a terrorist attack.
21 August, Oignies: A mass shooting was averted on a high-speed
train travelling between Amsterdam and Paris, when a passenger armed with an
automatic pistol and a box cutter was subdued by six passengers. Three people
were injured in the struggle, which took place on a section of track in
northern France.
13-14 November, Paris: Gunmen and suicide bombers hit a concert
hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars, almost simultaneously - and left 130 people dead and hundreds
wounded.
The deadliest attack of the night came at a concert venue on Boulevard
Voltaire, where Californian rock group Eagles of Death Metal was playing.
Eighty-nine people died as the men fired Kalashnikov-type assault rifles into
the crowd.
7 January, Paris: A man who was apparently trying to attack a police station on
the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks was shot dead by police. The suspect was carrying
a meat cleaver and wearing a dummy suicide vest.
13 June, Magnanville: A French police commander and his partner were stabbed to death at their home west of Paris by a
man claiming allegiance to so-called Islamic State (IS). Their three-year-old
survived. The attacker was killed in an police assault on the house.
14 July, Nice: At least 84 people were killed, including children, after
a lorry
slammed through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French city of
Nice. The driver ploughed on for 2km (1.2 miles) on the
Promenade des Anglais at about 23:00 local time, before being shot dead by
police. Witnesses say the speeding lorry swerved and zigzagged in an apparent
attempt to hit more people.
26 July, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray: A priest was killed in an attack by two armed men on a church in a
suburb of Rouen in northern France. The attackers entered the church in
Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during Mass, taking the priest, Fr Jacques Hamel, 84,
and four other people hostage, before being shot dead by police. President
Hollande said the men claimed to be from IS.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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