The truck that crashed into a Christmas market in Berlin is the latest in a string of targeted attacks across Europe. Both were injured but only the perpetrator, a year-old Algerian man with a criminal record named only as "K. Isis later claimed responsibility for the incident.
The men filmed the incident and forced two nuns to watch before being shot by police as they fled the church. A year-old Syrian refugee, whose application for asylum had been declined by Germany, blew himself up at an open-air music festival in Ansbach, Bavaria, on July 25, injuring 12 people. On July 18, several people were hurt when a year-old Afghan teen stormed a busy commuter train passing through Bavaria brandishing a fire axe.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian resident in France, drove a stolen tonne Renault cargo lorry through a parade of Bastille Day revellers on the Promenade des Anglais in the resort town. Isis-inspired terrorist Larossi Abballa stabbed a police commander and his partner to death on June 13, in an attack streamed on Facebook Live. Having tracked the couple for days, he killed Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, a police commander in the Paris suburb of Les Mureaux, outside his home before going inside and taking Jessica Schneider and their three-year-old son hostage.
He killed the woman, who was a police administrator in the suburb of Mantes-la-Jolie, but did not harm the boy and was later arrested. Co-ordinated suicide bombings and shootings at cafes, bars, a rock concert at the Bataclan theatre and the Stade de France stadium in the French capital left people dead in the worst terrorist assault on Europe in a decade.
Belgian extremist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, suspected of masterminding the deadly attacks in Paris, died along with his female cousin in a police raid in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis days later. A man on board a Thalys high-speed train that had just crossed into France from Belgium tried to open fire with an AK assault rifle but was overpowered by a Briton and three Americans, two of them off-duty members of the US armed forces.
