France to expel foreign extremists

France is preparing to expel more than 200 foreigners on an extremist watch list after a teacher was beheaded by a Russian-born Islamist


Mass demonstrations held after murder of teacher Samuel Paty

REPERCUSSIONS
President Emmanuel Macron, under pressure to take tougher stance on non-nationals, is
to expel 231 foreigners on government watch list of suspected religious extremists

180 already in prison 
51 to be arrested


RECENT HISTORY OF EXTREMIST ATTACKS ON FRANCE

Oct 16, 2020: Chechen refugee beheads school teacher near Paris, for showing students cartoons of Prophet Muhammad. Attacker shot dead by police

Sep 25: Two people stabbed and wounded in Paris, near former Charlie Hebdo offices. Man originally from Pakistan arrested

Oct 3, 2019: IT engineer with security clearance kills three police officers and one civilian at Paris police headquarters. Assailant, who converted to Islam, killed by police

Mar 23, 2018: Islamist gunman kills three people in hostage siege at supermarket. Police storm building and shoot him dead

Jul 26, 2016: Two Islamist attackers kill 84-year-old priest and wound hostage in church in Rouen, before being shot dead by police

Jul 14: Gunman drives 19-tonne truck into crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, killing 86 people and wounding 458 others. Police kill attacker – Tunisian-born
French citizen

Jun 14: Moroccan-born man stabs police commander and his partner to death at their Paris home, before being killed by police
      
Nov 13, 2015: Multiple gun and bomb attacks in and around Paris kill 130 people and wound 368. Police shoot dead ringleader five days later
  
Jan 7-9: Islamists kill 12 people at offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Next day, four hostages in supermarket and police woman killed before militant is shot dead
by police
  
        
Sources: Reuters, BBC 
Picture: Getty Images 
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