Odd remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron earlier today, appearing to suggest that the shooting in #Trappes, west of #Paris, was the first terrorist attack in #France in which someone targeted people because of the colour of their skin or their religion. Unfortunately, not quite true. - 2012 Toulouse: Mohamed Merah shot dead three Jewish children and a rabbi at the Ozar Hatorah school because they were Jewish. He was killed by police during a siege of his apartment. - 2015 Paris (Hyper Cacher): Amedy Coulibaly killed four Jewish hostages at a kosher supermarket after asking if they were Jewish. He was shot dead by police during the raid. - 2015 Villejuif: Sid Ahmed Ghlam planned a church attack (killed a woman while preparing; plot foiled). He was sentenced to life imprisonment (confirmed on appeal). - 2016 Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray: Two Islamist attackers (Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean) slit the throat of Father Jacques Hamel during mass in his church. Both were killed by police at the scene. - 2017 Paris: Sarah Halimi, a Jewish woman, was beaten and thrown from her balcony by a neighbor (Kobili Traoré) shouting “Allahu Akbar” and calling her the “Sheitan.” He was ruled criminally irresponsible due to mental illness and confined to a psychiatric facility (no criminal trial). - 2018 Paris: Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor, was stabbed and set on fire in her apartment by neighbors in an antisemitic killing. Main perpetrator Yacine Mihoub was sentenced to life imprisonment; an accomplice received 15 years for aggravated theft. - 2020 Nice: Brahim Aouissaoui stabbed to death three people (including the church sexton) inside Notre-Dame basilica, shouting “Allahu Akbar.” He was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole (perpétuité incompressible) in 2025.