Major terrorist attacks and foiled attempts in France since 2015

> January 7: Two armed men storm the Paris offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo killing 12 people. — April 19: Sid Ahmed Ghlam, an Algerian IT student, is arrested on suspicion of killing a woman. > June 26: Frenchman Yassin Salhi, 35, beheads his boss Herve Cornara. > August 21: Passengers prevent a bloodbath on a high-speed Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris, tackling a man who opened fire. > November 13: Daesh terrorists strike outside a France-Germany football match and the Bataclan concert hall leaving 130 people dead and more than 350 wounded. > June 13: Larossi Abballa, 25, kills police officer Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, and his partner, Jessica Schneider, 36, in west of Paris. > July 14: A truck ploughs through a crowd in Nice after a Bastille Day fireworks display, killing 84 people. > February 3: A man armed with a machete attacks four soldiers on patrol at Paris’s Louvre Museum. > March 18: A 39-year-old man is killed at Paris’s Orly airport after attacking a soldier. > April 21: A known terror suspect shoots dead a policeman on the Champs-Elysees. > August 5: Soldiers at the Eiffel Tower in Paris arrest a knifewielding man, a former psychiatric patient, after he leaps a security barrier shouting “Allahu Akbar”. > August 9: A car drives into soldiers on patrol outside a military barracks in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, injuring six people, two seriously. —