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Islamic State Affiliated Terrorist Attacks In France
ISIL-related terrorist attacks in France refers to the terrorist activity of the Islamic State in France, including attacks committed by Islamic State-inspired lone wolves. The French military operation Opération Sentinelle has been ongoing in France since the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks. Background According to ''The Guardian'', eight attacks occurred in France during the eighteen months from January 2015 to July 2016, including the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks (which killed 17 people), the November 2015 Paris attacks (which killed 130), and the July 2016 Nice truck attack (which killed 86). Reportedly, the Islamic State has called on its supporters for a coordinated wave of attacks in European countries. Timeline 2014 2015 On 26 June 2015, an attacker decapitated one person. He then blew up a gas canister in a factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon, injuring two. On 21 August 2015, in the 2015 Thalys train attack, a man threatened passengers with an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opération Sentinelle
Opération Sentinelle is an ongoing French military operation following the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks, with the objective of protecting sensitive "points" of the territory from terrorism. It was reinforced during the November 2015 Paris attacks, and was part of a state of emergency in France due to continued terror threats and attacks, until the state of emergency ended on 1 November 2017. On 13 October 2023, France raised its security alert to the highest level, and the day after it deployed 7,000 soldiers following the Arras school stabbing. Background Opération Sentinelle began after the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks, and was reinforced following the November 2015 Paris attacks, attacks which were claimed to have been perpetrated by the Islamic extremist groups Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. A number of other attacks have taken place in France since these attacks. Other European countries have also deployed sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Hollande
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (; born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. Before his presidency, he was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (France), First Secretary of the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party (PS) from 1997 to 2008, Mayor (France), Mayor of Tulle from 2001 to 2008, as well as President of the Departmental Council of Corrèze, General Council of Corrèze from 2008 to 2012. He has also held the Corrèze's 1st constituency, 1st constituency of Corrèze seat in the National Assembly (France), National Assembly three times, first from 1988 to 1993, then from 1997 to 2012, and from 2024 onwards. Born in Rouen and raised in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hollande began his political career as a special advisor to newly elected President François Mitterrand before serving as a staffer for Max Gallo the government's spokesman. He became a member of the National Assembly in 1988 French legislative electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Lecointre
François Gérard Marie Lecointre (; born 6 February 1962) is a French Army general (France), army general who has served as Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, Order of the Legion of Honour since 1 February 2023. He previously served as Chief of the Defence Staff (France), Chief of the Defence Staff between 2017 and 2021.Government of the French Republic (23 January 2023). . Retrieved 23 January 2023. The son of a naval officer, Lecointre joined the French Army in 1984. As a Ranks in the French Army, captain, with Ranks in the French Army, Lieutenant Bruno Heluin (platoon leader) as the company commanding officer, he led an assault at the Battle of Vrbanja Bridge in 1995 that was the latest fixed bayonet Charge (warfare), charge of the French Armed Forces. Biography François Lecointre was born on 6 February 1962 in Cherbourg into a military family. His father, Yves Urbain Marie Lecointre (5 April 1932 – 17 July 1985), was a French French Navy, naval Ranks in the Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre De Villiers
Pierre François Marie Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon (born 26 July 1956) known as Pierre de Villiers is a retired Army General of the French Army, and a former Chief of the Defence Staff. Following a disagreement with President Emmanuel Macron, who is ''ex-officio'' Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, he tendered his resignation on 19 July 2017. Biography House Le Jolie de Villiers Pierre Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon is a member of the House of Le Jolis de Villiers () established in the 16th century. His brother is the French politician Philippe de Villiers. Early military career 20th century After two years of preparatory corniche () at Prytanée National Militaire, Pierre Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon was admitted to the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1975, promotion « Captain Henri Guilleminot » (). He entered at the end of his scholarity the Armoured Cavalry Arm and joined the Saumur Cavalry School within his specialty, promot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Parly
Florence Parly (; born 8 May 1963) is a French politician who served as Minister of the Armed Forces (France), Minister of the Armed Forces under President of the French Republic, President Emmanuel Macron from 2017 to 2022. A former member of the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party (PS), she previously served as List of Budget Ministers of France, Secretary of State for the Budget from 2000 to 2002 under President Jacques Chirac. Career An alumna of Sciences Po and the École nationale d'administration, Parly was appointed List of Budget Ministers of France, Secretary of State for the Budget on 3 January 2000 in the government of Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. In office until 6 May 2002, she seconded Christian Sautter, then Laurent Fabius at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance (France), Ministry of Finance. After briefly serving as a member of the Burgundy Regional council (France), Regional Council from 2004 to 2006, Parly worked at Air France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvie Goulard
Sylvie Goulard (; born 6 December 1964) is a French politician and civil servant who served as Deputy Governor of the Banque de France from 2018 to 2022. Prior to this, Goulard briefly served as Minister of the Armed Forces from 17 May to 21 June 2017 in the First Philippe government. A native of Marseille, Goulard served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for West France from 2009 until 2014. She was reelected in the 2014 election for South-East France. As an MEP she was a member of the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs and an ALDE group coordinator, as well as a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development between 2009 and 2014 and Committee on Constitutional Affairs between 2014 and 2017. In 2010 she participated in the creation of the Euro-federalist interparliamentarian Spinelli Group. She served as a foreign affairs advisor; Goulard also is a former president of the Mouvement européen-France, the oldest pluralist associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Yves Le Drian
Jean-Yves Le Drian (; born 30 June 1947) is a French politician who served as Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs in the governments of Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex (2017–2022) and as Minister of Defence under President François Hollande (2012–2017). A former member of the Socialist Party, he had been an Independent from 2018 before founding Territories of Progress in 2020. Family and education Jean-Yves Le Drian was born in Lorient to working-class parents, Jean and Louisette, who were active members of the Young Christian Workers (''Jeunesse ouvrière chrétienne'', JOC). He completed his studies at the University of Rennes 2, where he was an activist for the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (UNEF). First interested by the Breton Democratic Union (UDB) in the early 1970s, he joined the Socialist Party (PS) in May 1974. Political career Early functions In 1977, he assumed the position of Deputy Mayor of Lorient; one year later, at the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophe Castaner
Christophe Castaner (; born 3 January 1966) is a French politician who served as Minister of the Interior from 16 October 2018 to 6 July 2020 under President Emmanuel Macron. He had been elected in 2017 for a three-year term as chairman (''délégué général'') of the La République En Marche! party with Macron's support. Castaner was Government Spokesperson under Prime Minister Édouard Philippe in 2017 and Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament from 2017 to 2018. He was also Macron's 2017 presidential campaign spokesman. Born in Ollioules in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, Castaner was Mayor of Forcalquier from 2001 to 2017. He held a vice presidency of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur from 2004 to 2012 under the presidency of Michel Vauzelle, before he represented the 2nd constituency of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the National Assembly from 2012 to 2017. He headed the Socialist Party list in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Collomb
Gérard Collomb OQ (; 20 June 1947 – 25 November 2023) was a French politician who served as Mayor of Lyon from 2001 to 2017 and again from 2018 until 2020. He joined La République En Marche! (LREM) in 2017, when he left the Socialist Party (PS), which he had joined in 1969. Collomb was Minister of the Interior in the first and second government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2017 to 2018. Disagreements with President Emmanuel Macron over immigration policy led him to resign and return as Mayor of Lyon. He was a councillor for both the City of Lyon and Metropolis of Lyon from 2020 until his death in 2023. Political career Local politics Collomb was elected as a Socialist municipal councillor for the 9th arrondissement of Lyon in the 1977 French municipal elections, and was re-elected six times since then. In 1981, aged 34, he was elected to the French National Assembly. He was re-elected in 1986 but lost his seat in 1988. From 1989 on, he led by the municipal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Fekl
Matthias Fekl (; born 4 October 1977) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party who served as Minister of the Interior (France), Minister of the Interior in the Cazeneuve government, government of Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve in 2017. Fekl was first elected to the National Assembly (France), National Assembly in the Lot-et-Garonne's 2nd constituency, second constituency of Lot-et-Garonne in 2012 French legislative election, 2012, retaining his seat until 2014, when he became Secretary of state, Secretary of State for Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (France), Foreign Trade, Tourism and French citizens abroad. In 2017, he briefly returned to Parliament for the remainder of his term. Since 2019, he has been serving as president of the Association of French Breweries. Early life and education Fekl was born on 4 October 1977 in Frankfurt, West Germany. His father is a German university professor and his mother is a F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Le Roux
Bruno Le Roux (; born 2 May 1965) is a French politician of the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party who served as the Minister of the Interior of France from December 2016 to March 2017. Political career Le Roux was a member of the National Assembly of France where he represented the Seine-Saint-Denis department and was the leader of the Socialist, Radical, Citizen and Miscellaneous Left, Socialist, Ecologist & Republican Group. He led the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party in the National Assembly of France, National Assembly from 2012 until 2016. In the Socialist Party's 2011 French Socialist Party presidential primary, 2011 primaries, Le Roux endorsed François Hollande as the party's candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, 2012 presidential election. On 6 December 2016, Le Roux was named Minister of the Interior in the government of Bernard Cazeneuve. In 2015, news media reported that Le Roux was included in a Russian blacklist of prominent peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Castex
Jean Castex (; born 25 June 1965) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 3 July 2020 to 16 May 2022. He was a member of The Republicans (LR) until 2020. Castex served for twelve years as mayor of the small town of Prades prior to his appointment as prime minister by President Emmanuel Macron. He resigned his post ahead of the 2022 legislative election. He has been president of the state-owned RATP since November 2022. Political career Elected in 2008 as the mayor of Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, Castex served under Health Minister Xavier Bertrand as chief of staff in François Fillon's ministry from 2010 until 2011. He succeeded Raymond Soubie as Secretary-General of the Élysée under President Nicolas Sarkozy between 2011 and 2012. In the UMP 2012 leadership primaries, he endorsed Fillon. On the local level, Castex was a regional councillor of Languedoc-Roussillon from 2010 to 2015, and has served as department councillor of Pyrénées-O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
