In one year, 10 major terrorist attacks were carried out in European cities in which more than 150 people were killed, and the targets were London, Paris, Nice, Manchester, Barcelona...
Terrorists used explosives or a vehicle (truck or van) at full speed as a weapon, and the attacks were most often carried out in places where there are mass gatherings.
"Deutsche Vele" made a list of European cities that were targeted by terrorists in the past year.
Barcelona, August 2017
On the popular tourist boulevard Las Ramblas, a truck drove into a crowd of people. The police assess that it was a terrorist attack, in which 14 people were killed and more than 100 were injured.
Cambrils, August 2017.
After the attack in Barcelona, a terrorist attack also took place in Cambrils, where a car ran into pedestrians, killing one and injuring seven people, including a policeman.
London, June 2017.
According to police reports, a van plowed into a group of pedestrians on London Bridge late at night and then continued to Boror Market district.
There, three attackers killed seven people with knives, and dozens were injured. The terrorist organization Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
Manchester, May 2017.
After the pop concert of the American singer Ariana Grande, Salman Abedi activated the explosives. He killed 23 people and injured around 120. Among the dead were many children – the youngest of them was only eight years old.
It is the worst attack in the UK since 2005.
Stockholm, April 2017.
In a shopping street in the capital of Sweden, an attacker with a hijacked truck rams first into a crowd of people and then into a shopping center.
Five people died and 15 were injured. On the same day, the police arrest a 39-year-old Uzbek man on suspicion of terrorism.
Saint Petersburg, April 2017.
In the explosion in the metro in Saint Petersburg, 11 people were killed and many others were injured.
The location of the explosion and the way the bomb was planted correspond to Islamist terrorism.
London, March 2017.
An attacker deliberately turns his car into a pedestrian zone on a bridge in central London, after which he stabs a police officer.
Four people are subject to injuries. British security forces killed the perpetrator.
Paris, February-March 2017.
At the Orly airport in France, a man tries to wrest a weapon from the hands of a soldier on patrol. After that he was killed.
In early February, an Egyptian who attacked a military patrol with machetes was killed near the Louvre museum.
Berlin, December 2016.
The German capital was the target of a terrorist attack just before Christmas. A member of the Islamic State terrorist police kills 12 people by driving a stolen truck into the center of a Christmas market.
A few days after that, a 24-year-old Tunisian was killed near Milan during a police check.
Nice, July 2016.
An assassin drives a truck into a crowd on the waterfront in the French port city of Nice.
At least 86 people died.
After that, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the massacre.
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