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By 6 November, ten people were being prosecuted, including another 18-year-old of Chechen origin, a French 18-year-old, and a 17-year-old girl, all charged with "criminal terrorist conspiracy" having been arrested in eastern France, far from either Paris or Évreux.
Maurice Papon, who died in 2007, was the only Vichy France official to be convicted for his role in the deportation of Jews during World War Two. According to historian Jean-Luc Einaudi, a specialist on the massacre, some of the causes of the violent repression of the 17 October 1961 demonstration can best be understood in terms of the composition of the French police force itself, which still ...
In 1960, France became the fourth state to acquire a nuclear arsenal, detonating an atomic bomb in the Algerian desert (a secret clause of the 1962 Évian Accords with the Algerian National Liberation Front stated that "Algeria concede... to France the use of certain air bases, terrains, sites and military installations which are necessary to ...
He shot and killed one responding police officer and wounded another before being shot and arrested. [66] 20 June 2015: Dives-sur-Mer, Normandy: 4 [n 1] 0 4: A man shot and killed his wife, daughter, and 5-year-old grandson with a hunting rifle in two houses before killing himself. [67] 9 January 2015: Paris, Île-de-France: 5 [n 1] 9 14
French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism brought her execution by guillotine Paris France: Executioner: Elijah Parish Lovejoy: 1837: 7 November American journalist, newspaper editor and abolitionist Alton, Illinois United States: mob Abraham Lincoln: 1865: 15 April
August 29, 1960: Amman Jordan: Killed in a bomb explosion Abebe Aregai: Prime Minister of Ethiopia: December 17, 1960: Addis Ababa Ethiopia: Failed military coup d'état: Rafael Trujillo: President of the Dominican Republic: May 30, 1961: Ciudad Trujillo Dominican Republic: Juan Tomás Díaz, Antonio de la Maza, Amado García Guerrero, Antonio ...
A new film adaptation of a 2000 memoir, "Happening," about a French woman's illegal 1963 abortion, trades the book's specifity for universal power.
Terrorist incidents map of France (1970–2015). Paris, Corsica and Southwestern France are major places of incidents. A total of 2,616 incidents were plotted. This is a list of terrorist attacks in France from 1800 to the present. Several 19th-century French rulers were targeted in unsuccessful assassination attempts which killed innocent ...