ISIS mutilates France with 19 months of terror attacks

19 months of terror by ISIS on France.

France is a nation on high alert. The Normandy church attack Tuesday is at least the 11th terror attack or attempt in France since gunmen stormed the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo magazine in January 2015 -- about one every other month. More than 240 people have lost their lives, including an 86-year-old priest at a church Tuesday in St.-Etienne-du-Rouvray in northern France.

January 7, 2015

Gunmen storm Charlie Hebdo headquarters

Attackers force their way into the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7. Twelve people die. The attack sets off three days of terror as authorities stage
an exhaustive manhunt for the perpetrators. The following day, an unrelated group shoots a female officer in the Paris suburb of Montrouge. Two days later, a gunman enters a kosher grocery store in a Paris suburb and takes 19 people hostage. Four people are killed in addition to the hostage taker, whom police shoot during a standoff. On the same day, suspects of the Charlie Hebdo attack are spotted in northern France and killed.

February 2015

Attacker stabs 2 soldiers

A soldier is stabbed on a street in Nice while patrolling as part of an increased security presence following the Charlie Hebdo attack. A second soldier tries to come to the victim’s aid and is also stabbed. Both men die, and the suspect is arrested with help from other soldiers, police and a passer-by.

June 26, 2015

Suspect detained after beheading, explosion

A delivery employee attacks a U.S.-owned factory near Lyon in southeastern France by driving a van into the facility and detonating a device. Following the large explosion, authorities also find a decapitated body in the suspect’s van. The head is later found on a fence near two banners inscribed with Islamic writing.

August 21, 2015

Train attack thwarted

A man carrying a Kalashnikov assault weapon, nine magazines of ammunition, an automatic pistol and other assorted weapons attempts to attack a high-speed passenger train. The attack is thwarted by three Americans and a British passenger en route from Amsterdam. Hailed later as heroes, the group tackles and ties up the suspect ahead of the train’s arrival in the French capital. No one is killed, but four passengers are caught up in the melee and sustain injuries. The suspect is later linked to a group of French ISIS fighters in Turkey.

November 13, 2015

130 killed in massacre

At least 130 people are killed in a series of coordinated attacks and bombings across the French capital. Assailants strike at the Bataclan, a popular music venue, in addition to several cafes and restaurants, and outside the national stadium where a soccer match is underway. ISIS claims responsibility. A state of emergency is declared following the attacks.

January 1, 2016

Soldiers shoot man outside mosque

Soldiers guarding a mosque in southeastern France shoot and wound a man who drives his vehicle toward them, according to authorities. The incident is believed to be isolated, and the man’s motives are unknown. One soldier is injured in the leg and taken to the hospital.

January 7, 2016

Man with knife killed by police

Authorities kill a knife-wielding man as he attempts to enter a police station in the northern Paris neighborhood of Barbes on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Police find an image of the ISIS flag and a handwritten note in Arabic on the suspect’s body.

July 14, 2016

Bastille Day horror

A truck drives into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in the southern French city of Nice, killing 84 people. The driver first shoots a gun into the crowd before plowing through revelers, gathered for the national holiday. Police shoot and kill the driver. French President Francois Hollande extends the existing state of emergency.

July 26, 2016

Fatal standoff at French church

Two suspects storm a Catholic church in St.-Etienne-du-Rouvray in the northern region of Normandy during Mass, taking five people hostage. An 86-year-old priest dies while another person is seriously wounded. Attackers carried out the terror “in the name of” ISIS, the French President tells journalists later.