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For 40 years, the Bataclan had Jewish owners, Pascal and Joel Laloux, who sold the theatre to new owners on 11 September 2015. The theatre was a target for anti-Zionist activists, since the venue often held pro-Israel events. One extremist group called "Army of Islam" threatened the Bataclan in 2011 because its owners were Jews. [10] [11]
3 May 2024: Sevran, Île-de-France: 1 4 5: A man was killed and four people wounded in a parking lot. Police said it was connected to drug trafficking. [12] 16 April 2024: Nîmes, Occitania: 0 5 5: People in a car fired on people outside an apartment building, wounding five. [13] 26 January 2024: Fort-de-France, Martinique: 0 4 4
A third group carried out another mass shooting and took hostages at an Eagles of Death Metal concert attended by 1,500 people in the Bataclan theatre, leading to a stand-off with police. The attackers were either shot or detonated suicide vests when police raided the theatre. [19] The attackers killed 130 people, [4] including 90 at the ...
August 14, 2024 at 10:06 AM. LONDON (AP) — For Herve Tram, being a Taylor Swift fan isn’t just about the music. ... recalling how Parisians responded after the attack on the Bataclan theater ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2024. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Since 1970, France experienced 2,654 terrorist incidents, resulting in 1,247 terrorist-related deaths and 2,559 injuries, the second highest in western Europe after the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] France remains the country most affected by Islamist terrorism within Europe , with recent data showcasing a total of 82 Islamist attacks and 332 ...
The trial took place in a specially constructed courtroom inside the Palais de Justice on the Île de la Cité, an island in the River Seine in central Paris.The temporary courtroom was designed to accommodate 500 people, on account of the large number of civil parties (French: parties civiles), including the bereaved and survivors of the attacks.
[97] [98] The deadliest attack was at the Bataclan theatre where attackers took hostages and engaged in a standoff with police until it was ended at 00:58 CET 14 November 2015. 130 civilians were killed in the attacks.