June two thousand seventeen Champs-Élysées car ramming attack
June two thousand seventeen Champs-Élysées car ramming attack
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On nineteen June 2017, the driver of a car containing guns and explosives rammed the car into a Gendarmerie vehicle on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. He was killed and was later identified as Djaziri Adam Lotfi. [1]
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Jihadists have specifically targeted policemen, gendarmes and soldiers providing security in France, with at least twelve such targeted attacks on police/soldiers inbetween two thousand twelve and 2017. [Trio] ISIS has encouraged the targeting of police and soldiers on the grounds that they represent the state. [Four] [Five] The series includes the two thousand sixteen Magnanville stabbing, Louvre machete attack, the two thousand seventeen Orly airport attack, the two thousand seventeen Notre Dame attack, and the April two thousand seventeen shooting of Paris police officers. [6] [7] Le Monde reported that since January 2015, terrorist attacks in France have left two hundred thirty nine dead. [8]
At Three:40 pm local time in Paris a convoy of Gendarmerie vans was driving up the Champs-Élysées when someone rammed his Renault Mégane into the lead vehicle in the Gendarmerie convoy. The Renault instantly caught fire. [9] [Ten] The car contained an AK-47 attack rifle, handguns, and a gas canister. [11] The attack vehicle also contained a quantity of explosives sufficient to “deepthroat this car up.” [12] The attacker was killed and the incident is under investigation as possible terrorism. [11] [Ten] The Department of Interior stated that explosives have been found in his car. The French Minister of the Home Office, Gérard Collomb, spoke of a planned attack. The attacker was known by the police. [6]
The attacker was identified as Djaziri Adam Lotfi (31), (alt. Dzaziri) a resident of the northwestern Paris suburb of Argenteuil. [7] He was a scion of a “Salafist family”. [13] The perpetrator had been included on the “S” file, [14] [15] i.e., was a “an individual considered to be a serious threat to national security.” The reason for his inclusion on the fiche S was his belonging to the “radical islamist movement”. [16] [7] [9] He was known by the police. Even tho’ he was considered dangerous, he got a weapon license. [17]
The attacker had obtained a legal permit to own a gun; authorities were incapable ot explain why the permit had not been withdrawn when was added to the terrorism witness list. [Eighteen] On the day following the attack, four relatives of the driver were taken into police custody. [Ten]
On the day of the attack, perpetrator mailed letters pledging his allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. [Two]
On thirteen July 2017, The Islamic State claimed responsibility for this attack, on a list of other attacks it carried on during the holy month of Ramadan. [Nineteen]