Terror attacks and arrests in western Europe

By The Data Team

FRANCE has proved particularly vulnerable to terrorism this year, bearing the brunt of attacks in western Europe. The carnage in Paris on Friday night, which claimed the lives of 129 people, follows January’s shootings at the Paris offices of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and subsequent murders at a Jewish supermarket. In June a man was beheaded at a chemical plant near Lyon in the summer. Two months later a Kalashnikov attack on a TGV train was foiled after the perpetrator was overpowered by passengers.