What the records say
- When
- 18 Mar 2017
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 48.95° N, 2.38° E
- Description
- 2017 Orly Airport attack.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2017 Orly Airport attack.
2017 Orly Airport attack
2017 terrorist attack in Paris, France
The March 2017 Île-de-France attacks were a pair of terrorist attacks by the same individual in Garges-lès-Gonesse, an outer suburb of Paris, and at Orly International Airport near Paris on 18 March 2017. The attacker, a 39-year-old man identified as Ziyed Ben Belgacem, was shot dead after attempting to seize a weapon from a soldier patrolling the airport under Opération Sentinelle.
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