The attacks caused at least 120 deaths on Friday in Paris, according to a provisional report, are the deadliest in Europe in the last 40 years along with the attacks in Madrid on March 11, 2004.
- January 7, 2015 - FRANCE: Two French jihadists, the Kouachi brothers, killing twelve people, including five artists, at the headquarters of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris, the object of death threats for publishing caricatures of Muhammad 2006 and 2012 were killed by police after three days escape.
Simultaneously, another French jihadist, Amedy Coulibaly kill 5 people including a municipal police officer and four Jews before killing. The three claimed to be jihadists of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) or Islamic State (EI).
- July 22, 2011 - NORWAY: A right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, a bomb explodes near government headquarters in Oslo, causing eight victims before opening fire at a youth camp of the Labour Party on the island of Utoya, killing 69 people, mostly teenagers. Serving a sentence of 21 years in prison, the maximum in Norway, which could be extended indefinitely while you continue considering dangerous to society.
- July 7, 2005 - GREAT BRITAIN: four coordinated suicide bombings at rush hour on three subway trains and London bus left 56 dead and 700 wounded. They are claimed by a group linked to al Qaida.
- March 11, 2004 - SPAIN: Ten bombs explode towards 7h40 in Madrid and its suburbs on board four trains, causing 191 deaths and nearly 2,000 injured. The attack was claimed on behalf of Al Qaeda by a radical Islamist cell.
- August 15, 1998 - GREAT BRITAIN: The explosion of a car bomb in Omagh, a small town northwest of Northern Ireland, causing 29 dead and 220 wounded, including many young people, including two Spanish tourists. The attack was claimed by a breakaway faction of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The drama beat Northern Ireland in the euphoria of the peace process, four months after the April 1998 agreement, known as Good Friday.
- June 19, 1987 - SPAIN: A suicide car bomb attack by the Basque separatist organization ETA in the parking lot of a mall Hipercor of Barcelona leaves 21 dead and 45 wounded.
- August 2, 1980 - ITALY: A bomb explodes in the waiting room of Bologna station (north), causing 85 dead and 200 wounded. It was the deadliest attack in the country's history. Two members of a right-wing terrorist group were sentenced to life imprisonment but the masterminds were never identified.
AFP