2014 Tours police station stabbing

2014 terrorist attack in France November 2015 2014 Tours stabbing attack Indre-et-Loire-Position.svg Joué-lès-Tours, France Police officers 47.3520 0.6622 inline,title 20 December 2014 Stabbing 1 (the perpetrator) 3 Bertrand Nzohabonayo Knife Islamist terrorism inspired by ISILOn 20 December 2014, a man in Joué-lès-Tours near the city of Tours in central France entered a police station and attacked officers with a knife, shouting "Allahu Akbar" and injuring three before he was shot and killed. The attack was categorised as a case of religiously inspired terrorism by Europol,EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT) 2015 https://www.europol.europa.eu/activities-services/main-reports/european-union-terrorism-situation-and-trend-report-2015 EU Terrorism Situation & Trend Report (Te-Sat) Europol 2015 18 978-92-95200-56-2 and has been reported by Europol as well as mappings by CNN and AFP as inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).Changes in Modus Operandi of Islamic State (IS) revisited Europol https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-documents/changes-in-modus-operandi-of-islamic-state-revisited November 2016 7Tim Lister Ray Sanchez Mark Bixler Sean O'Key Michael Hogenmiller Mohammed Tawfeeq ISIS goes global: 143 attacks in 29 countries have killed 2,043 https://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/17/world/mapping-isis-attacks-around-the-world/index.html CNN 13 February 2017Timeline: How jihadists have targeted soldiers and police in France https://www.thelocal.fr/20170915/islamist-attacks-against-police-and-soldiers-in-france AFP thelocal.fr 15 September 2017 Perpetrator The attacker was identified as Bertrand Nzohabonayo, age 20, a French citizen and former rap musician born in Burundi in 1994, he was known to the police for minor crimes but was not on any watchlist.French police shoot dead knifeman who was shouting Islamic slogans https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11305974/French-police-shoot-dead-knifeman-who-was-shouting-Islamic-slogans.html 16 November 2015 The Daily Telegraph 20 December 2014Lichfield John Man shot dead by police in jihadist attack in Tours https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/man-shot-dead-by-police-in-jihadist-attack-in-tours-9938912.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/man-shot-dead-by-police-in-jihadist-attack-in-tours-9938912.html May 1, 2022 subscription 17 November 2015 The Independent 21 December 2014Rodrigues Jason Terror attacks in Europe: the five danger zones https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/16/terror-threat-jihadis-five-countries 17 November 2015 The Guardian 16 January 2015France Dijon: Driver targets city pedestrians https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30571911 22 December 2014 BBC News 21 December 2014 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.Cruickshank Paul Drumbeat of terror precedes slaughter that shocks France and the world http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/14/europe/paris-attacks-threats/ 17 November 2015 CNN 16 November 2015Mulholland Rory 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 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11307094/French-knife-attacker-Bertrand-Nzohabonayo-was-Islamic-convert.html 16 November 2015 The Daily Telegraph 21 December 2014 In Burundi, police arrested the attacker's brother, a man with known Islamist sympathies and claimed that they had informed French authorities the previous year that both brothers should be regarded as suspect due to their extreme religious views.Burundi arrests brother of suspect in French police attack http://www.france24.com/en/20141222-burundi-arrests-brother-suspect-police-knife-attack-nzohabonayo 16 November 2015 France 24 22 December 2014 Motivation The Financial Times described the attack, along with the vehicle-ramming attacks on 21 December in Dijon and 22 December in Nantes as "the first ISIS-linked attacks" in France.Jones Sam France emerges as main focus for terrorists Financial Times 15 July 2016 1811254498 According to The Globe and Mail, the attack was "apparently inspired by a video" circulated by ISIL calling on French Muslims to attack non-Muslims using vehicles.Martin Patrick History of lone-wolf vehicle attacks suggests risk of emulation is very rea https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/history-of-lone-wolf-vehicle-attacks-suggests-risk-of-emulation-is-very-real/article30933070/ 15 July 2016 The Globe and Mail 15 July 2016 According to David C. Rapoport of the University of California, Los Angeles, these three attacks can be understood in the context of the rise of the Islamic State in Syria. "In September 2014, after the U.S. organized its airstrikes, the Islamic State’s chief spokesman called on Muslims in Western countries to find an infidel and ‘smash his head with a rock’, poison him, run him over with a car or ‘destroy his crops’. Two months later a video released in French contained virtually the same message and a series of strange 'lone wolf' attacks followed on three consecutive days, the perpetrators declaring “'God is Great' in Arabic. Three policemen were stabbed in Joué-lès-Tours, and vehicles were used to run over eleven pedestrians in Dijon and ten in Nantes."Rapoport David Why Has The Islamic State Changed its Strategy and Mounted the Paris-Brussels Attacks? Perspectives on Terrorism; Terrorism Research Initiative; University of Leiden 2016 10 2 http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/498/html https://web.archive.org/web/20160504192303/http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/498/html usurped May 4, 2016 18 October 2017 Aftermath The attack was categorised as "religiously inspired terrorism" by Europol, as reported to them by France. Following this attack, the 2014 Dijon attack and 2014 Nantes attack, which were deemed to be unrelated, the French government heightened the nation's security.France to deploy soldiers after spate of attacks https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30586798 26 December 2014 BBC News 23 December 2014 See also January 2016 Paris police station attack Stabbing as a terrorist tactic References 30em collapsed Law France Category:Attacks on police stations in 2014 Category:Converts to Islam Category:Deaths by firearm in France Category:December 2014 crimes in Europe Category:December 2014 in France Category:French people of Burundian descent Category:History of Tours, France Category:Terrorist incidents in France in 2014 Category:Islamic terrorism in France Category:Islamic terrorist incidents in 2014 Category:Stabbing attacks in 2014 Category:Terrorist incidents in France involving knife attacks Category:Crimes against police officers in France Category:Attacks on police stations in France