2014 Tours police station stabbing
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On 20 December 2014, a man in Joué-lès-Tours near the city of Tours in central France entered a police station and attacked officers with a knife, shouting "Allahu Akbar" and injuring three before he was shot and killed. The attack was categorised as a case of religiously inspired terrorism by Europol,[2] and has been reported by Europol as well as mappings by CNN and AFP as inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[1][3][4]
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Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
Location | Joué-lès-Tours, France |
Coordinates | 47.3520°N 0.6622°E / 47.3520; 0.6622 |
Date | 20 December 2014 |
Target | Police officers |
Attack type | Stabbing |
Weapons | Knife |
Deaths | 1 (the perpetrator) |
Injured | 3 |
Perpetrator | Bertrand Nzohabonayo |
Motive | Islamist terrorism inspired by ISIL[1][2] |
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