1995 France bombings

1995 France bombings
Part of Algerian Civil War (spillover) Islamic terrorism in Europe
Plaque commemorating the victims of the Saint-Michel station bombing on 25 July 1995
Location	Paris and Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
Coordinates	48°51′13″N 2°20′42″E / 48.8537°N 2.3449°E / 48.8537; 2.3449
Date	25 July–17 October 1995 (1995-10-17)
Weapons	Improvised explosive devices, school bombing
Deaths	8
Injured	190
Perpetrator	Armed Islamic Group
Motive	To force the French government to withdraw support from the Algerian government during the Algerian Civil War
Convicted	Rachid Ramda

A series of attacks targeted public transport systems in Paris and Lyon, as well as a school in Villeurbanne, in 1995. They were carried out by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA), who sought to expand the Algerian Civil War to France. The attacks killed eight people, all during the first attack on 25 July. The attack also injured 190 people.

The assassination of Abdelbaki Sahraoui, a co-founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), was a prelude to the extension of the Islamists' terrorist campaign in France.^[1]