2014 Tours police station stabbing

2014 Tours stabbing attack

Location of Indre-et-Loire within France
Location Joué-lès-Tours
Date December 20, 2014 (2014-12-20)
Target Police officers
Attack type
 Stabbing
Weapons Knife
Deaths 1 (the perpetrator)
Non-fatal injuries
 3
Perpetrator Bertrand Nzohabonayo
Motive Radical Islamism

On 20 December 2014, a man in Joué-lès-Tours near the city of Tours in central France entered a police station shouting "Allahu Akbar" and began to attack officers with a knife, injuring three before he was shot and killed.

The stabbing attack is regarded by French authorities as an act of terrorism.[1][2]

Perpetrator

The attacker was identified as Bertrand Nzohabonayo, age 20, a French citizen and former rap musician born in Burundi in 1994.[3][4][5][6] The attacker had taken Bilal as his new name upon conversion to Islam, and had been posting Islamist material on his Facebook page, including a photograph of the black flag of the Islamic State.[7][1]

The attacker's radical ideology had been reported to French security services before the attack.[8]

In Burundi, a majority-Christian country, police arrested the attacker's brother, Brice Nzohabonayo, a man with known Islamist sympathies, and stated that they had informed French authorities that both brothers should be regarded as suspect due to their radical Islmaist opinions.[9]

Aftermath

Nzohabonayo, a recent convert to Islam, has been called the "first of the lone wolves," part of a "drumbeat" of Islamist attackers who struck France with acts of lone wolf terrorism in the weeks preceding the Charlie Hebdo shooting, attacks that began a month after ISIL released a video on 19 November 2014, in French, urging Muslims to carry out attacks against non-Muslims, "kill them and spit in their faces and run over them with your cars."[1][10][11][12] This series of attacks included the 2014 Nantes attack and the 2014 Dijon attack.[1] These three lone wolf attacks occurred on three consecutive days, although only the stabbing attack in Joué-lès-Tours has been officially categorized as a terrorist attack.[1] Although the three attacks were deemed unrelated with one another, the French government heightened the nation's security and deployed 300 soldiers to patrol the nation's streets.[13]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Cruickshank, Paul (16 November 2015). "Drumbeat of terror precedes slaughter that shocks France and the world". CNN. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  2. ↑ Leveille, David (22 December 2014). "France endures deadly attacks". Public Radio International. Reuters (credited in; not copy of). Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "French police shoot dead knifeman who was shouting Islamic slogans". The Daily Telegraph. 20 December 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Lichfield, John (21 December 2014). "Man shot dead by police in jihadist attack in Tours". The Independent. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  5. ↑ Rodrigues, Jason (16 January 2015). "Terror attacks in Europe: the five danger zones". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "France Dijon: Driver targets city pedestrians". BBC News. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  7. ↑ Mulholland, Rory (21 December 2014). "French knife attacker Bertrand Nzohabonayo was Islamic convert; Man shot dead by French police had changed name to Bilal and posted ISIL flag on Facebook". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  8. ↑ "French anti-terror department investigates knife attack in Nice". Euronews. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  9. ↑ "Burundi arrests brother of suspect in French police attack". France 24. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  10. ↑ Lane, Oliver (12 January 2015). "In Pictures: France’s Three Weeks of Terror". Breitbart. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  11. ↑ "Paris terror attacks: West Yorkshire man, 21, arrested after Facebook post praises massacre". The Daily Telegraph. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  12. ↑ Molinié, William (15 November 2015). "Merah, Kouachi, Belhoucine, Nzohabonayo… Le terrorisme islamiste, une affaire de frères?". 20 minutes (France). Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  13. ↑ "France to deploy soldiers after spate of attacks". BBC News. 23 December 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014.

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