Terrorism
Nice attack: vehicles as a terrorist weapon
You run over Waiting at bus stops or on the lawn aimed in crowds. For some years now, the terrorists to perpetrate attacks with cars as a murder instrument.
Also by the shots of the truck was not to stop in nice, first
Whether the assassin of the Promenade des Anglais, in nice groups such as the “Islamic state”(IS) and Al-terrorist-Qaeda-inspired, is currently still unclear. However, in recent years, extremist bombers have used their car to kill and spread terror. Terrorist organizations had accessed the Internet several times to attacks of this kind. Unlike explosives and firearms cars are available for everyone and awaken no suspicion. The list of attacks or Attack attempts, it is now a long – a selection.
14. March 2016: In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a Palestinian with a high speed rammed an Israeli military vehicle and injured a soldier. Previously, two Palestinian men were attacked at the same location an Israeli army post with firearms. All three Palestinians are killed by the soldiers, three soldiers are injured.
14. December 2015: A Palestinian man is speeding his vehicle on the outskirts of Jerusalem in a group of Waiting at a bus stop. In the process, 14 people are injured. The assassin is shot.
Again and again, bus stops
13. October 2015: high-speed, a Palestinian driving his car into a Jerusalem bus stop, to the several passers-by have to wait. The man then rises and stabs an Israeli civilian, before he himself is shot down by the police.
At a stop in Jerusalem a bomber rest at the 5. November 2014 in a group of passers-by
5. November 2014: At a tram stop in Jerusalem, a Palestinian attacker to run over with his Van, passers-by. He then rises and attacks with an iron bar by the Waiting. In the process, he kills a man and injured 14 more before he is himself shot and killed. The radical Palestinian organization Hamas is committed to the fact.
20. October 2014: In one of the suburbs of the canadian metropolis of Montréal locking a
25-year-old canadian convert to a group of soldiers. In the process, he kills a soldier and injured another. After a chase, the assassin is placed and shot. In the subsequent investigation, it turns out that he wanted to join extremists groups in Syria.
Attack with excavator
4. August 2014: In Jerusalem, a 23-Year old from the Arab Eastern part of the city with a backhoe in an urban bus. In the process, he kills a passer-by and injured several people. The bus driver is only slightly injured, as the excavator falls over the Bus. The attacker is shot by police.
22. May 2013: The
British soldier Lee Rigby ride of two Londoners of Nigerian descent on the open road and then, with a butcher’s knife and brutally murdered. The offender can shoot it and explain, they wanted to avenge that Muslims in other Parts of the world were victims of Western violence.
2. July 2008: A man from the Arab Eastern part of Jerusalem rammed with a front-end loader on the Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, and other vehicles. He kills three people and injuring at least 30 passers-by, until he is shot and killed by police officers.
At the airport of Glasgow the bomber did not manage your vehicle to the Terminal to penetrate
In addition, the car will always be more bombs used, the assassins of self-murder in front of army and police posts or civilian facilities to be ignited. In Iraq and in other middle Eastern States such terror are not to count attacks for a long time. In Europe, it has the 30. June 2007 such an attempt. A propane Laden Jeep rammed the front door to the international airport in Glasgow, and then goes up in flames. Concrete barriers prevent the car from entering the Inside of the Terminals. The two bombers with Indian and Iraqi descent be made to the ensuing firefight with security forces. One of them dies of burn injuries that he suffered in the attack.