Are terrorism attacks something new in Europe?

[LiberalArkie]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_European_Union

[Kip Humphrey]

1. I lived in Paris in the Sixties. There were bombings in Marseilles back then (Algerians seeking

state freedom).

[guillaumeb]

2. Not at all, as the following demonstrates:

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
This was shattered when Catherine de Medici, the power behind the French throne, ordered the assassination of the brilliant Huguenot Admiral Coligny. The attempt left him wounded but not dead. Catherine panicked and ordered the massacre of all Huguenots, including Coligny. The slaughter began in Paris on the evening of St. Bartholomew's Day and spread to the countryside on the following days. Between 40,000 and 100,000 Huguenots were butchered in cold blood.

This particular terrorist slaughter began in 1572.
http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1501-1600/huguenots-driven-out-of-france-11630022.html

I could have also mentioned the terror perpetrated against the Jews who refused to convert that took place in Spain.

[TubbersUK]

3. No n/t

[Brother Buzz]

4. I guess the 1972 bombing of the I. G. Farben Building by the Baader-Meinhof Gang...

wasn't an act of terrorism, it wasn't mentioned in your link.


This official US Army photo shows the destruction caused by a Baader-Meinhof bomb left on May 11, 1972 at the entrance to the Officer’s Club behind the V Corps HQ housed in the massive IG Farben building in Frankfurt am Main. The bomb killed Lt. Col. Paul Bloomquist and injured several others.

[LiberalArkie]

8. The wiki page said that help was needed to update it as a lot of the acts were not listed.

I remember when the U.S. sent people to Germany and England to learn out to handle terrorism. I don't know how we would handle it if all those had happened over here.

[Adsos Letter]

5. Luigi Galleani

Luigi Galleani and the Propaganda of the Deed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Galleani

[Downwinder]

6. Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, AKA Carlos the Jackal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal

[Adsos Letter]

7. Yes.

I remember when that guy was big news.

[Albertoo]

9. What is new is that it's going to be violent, frequent and EU-wide

Since WWII, no other form of terrorism met all 3 criteria
- independentists were limited in space (troubles, Basques, Corsica)
- Red terror was limited in time 70's (Red Army Faction, Brigate Rosse)
- Palestinian attacks were sporadic (Munich, Paris)

Now it's going to be all over Europe regularly. For one 9/11, Europe has had London 7/7 + regions, Paris (3)+ regions, Madrid 11M, Amsterdam (van Gogh), Copenhagen (Jylland Posten). Can't think of anything big in Italy, Germany or Poland. Yet.