Originally Posted by
Forogil
No-one knows what he means. Islamic terrorist have been active in Europe for quite some time - the difference is that they succeed in killing more now, and that the attacks have increased after a lull around the turn of the century.
If we just look in France and ignore embassies, and only consider terrorists that could broadly be seen as Islamic - or working for them (so ignoring left-wing, right-wing, catholics, and Armenians):
1975 - RPG attack at airplane
1980 - Synagogue bomb attack
1981 - hotel bomb
1982 - train bomb
1983 - train bomb
1985 - cinema bomb
1985 - shopping store bomb
1986 - multiple bombs
1994 - hijacking - with intent of crashing into Eiffel tower
1995 - train bomb
1996 - metro bomb
2012 - multiple shootings
2013 - stabbing
2014 - vehicle ramming
2014 - another vehicle ramming
2015 - Charlie Hebdo, beheading and trying to ram a vehicle into gas plant, train shooting/hijacking, Bataclan
2016 - (non-Nice) vehicle ramming, stabbing, and Nice attack