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2014 Dijon attack

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2014 Dijon attack
Côte-d’Or-Position.svg
Location of Côte-d’Or within France
LocationDijon, France
Date21 December 2014
Attack type
Vehicle-ramming attack
WeaponsCar
Deaths0
Non-fatal injuries
13
On 21 December 2014, a man in the French city of Dijon was arrested after a vehicle-ramming attack in which he drove a van into pedestrians in five areas of the city in the space of half an hour. Thirteen people were injured, two of them seriously.
The alleged perpetrator shouted the Islamic takbir Allahu Akbar ("God is Great"); he had a record of mental disorder and no known links with terrorist groups. According to the Globe and Mail the attack was "apparently inspired by a video" circulated by ISIL calling on French Muslims to attack non-Muslims using vehicles.[1] The attack is been discussed as an incident categorized by French authorities as being caused by mental-illness, but by terrorism experts including David Martin Jones of the University of Queensland as lone wolf terrorism inspired by Islamist propaganda.
The Financial Times describes the 20 December 2014 Tours police station stabbing, this attack on 21 December, and the 22 December 2014 Nantes attack as the "the first Isis-linked attacks" in France.[2]

Attack[edit]

In the space of half an hour, the attacker, identified only as Nacer B, drove a Renault Clio van into groups of pedestrians in 5 separate areas of the city.[3][4][5] Thirteen people were injured; two of them sustained serious injuries.[6] Perpetrator shouted Allahu Akbar, brandished a knife, and claimed that he was "acting on behalf of the children of Palestine."[7]According to Dijon city prosecutor, Marie-Christine Tarrare, perpetrator had become “very agitated” after watching a television program about the plight of children in Chechnya.[8]
The attack has been described as one of a series of terror attacks on French soil,[2][9][10][11][12][13][8][14] as a contemporary example of vehicle ramming as a terrorism tactic, [15][16][17][18][19] and as one of the many ISIS-inspired lone wolf terrorist attacks worldwide.[20][21][2]

Suspect[edit]

The man arrested was reported to be "40-year-old man of Arab origin" and "Algerian and Moroccan descent."[14][8] He had been known to the police for minor offenses committed over the course of 20 years, and had repeatedly been treated for “serious and long-established psychiatric issues”.[8]
According to perpetrator's mother, in the week before the attack he had begun to be interested in religion and had started wearing a djellaba.[3][22] According to The Times, this series of three attacks (Dijon, Nantes, Tours) caused Whitehall to move protective measures against "lone volatile extremist(s)" intent on committing vehicle ramming attacks "to the top of the agenda," with a list of recommended measures including bollards, building design, and standards to insure that concrete sets properly.[23]

Motivation[edit]

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve described him as "very unstable". The local prosecutor said the incident was not linked to terrorism and the Interior Ministry believed that he had acted alone, although anti-terrorism investigators opened an inquiry into the attack.[5]
According to the New York Times, "The driver is said to have become 'very agitated' at home after watching a television program about the plight of children in Chechnya. The city prosecutor, Marie-Christine Tarrare said he had told the police that the program made him want to attack the French state by running over police or military officers, but that, after driving to a police station, he chose to drive into pedestrians."[8]
According to the BBC, "the official line" was that this attack was "not terrorism," however, "many people will be asking themselves if there is not some copycat effect being played out. Also, even if it is established the car attacks were the work of unbalanced individuals, might not Islamist propaganda have played some role in pushing them to the act?"[4][24]
According to Public Radio International, Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, France editor for Newsweek Europe, is a journalist who disputed the official denial that this attack was an act of terrorism. Moutet told The World that "It is act of terror, whether organized or not,... It is not linked to the Islamic State, but it's part of this inchoate feeling that exists among disenfranchised youth who are fascinated by Islam — the more extreme the more fascinating to them — and they seize the opportunity."[25]
Journalist Shweta Desai placed the unnamed attacker in Dijon in a series of lone wolf attackers "inspired" by Abu Mohammad al-Adnani's 22 September 2014 video speech urging sympathizers to kill the "disbelieving Americans or Europeans, especially the spiteful and filthy French" in any manner. "Smash his head with a rock or slaughter him with a knife or run him over with your car or run him over with your car or throw him down from a high place or choke him or poison him."[26] Political Scientist David Martin Jones of the University of Queensland concurs, citing the Dijon attack as an action inspired by the September 22, 2014 al-Adnani speech.[27] The Times describes Dijon as a "apparently lone-wolf Islamist attack."[28] The Financial Times describes it together with the attacks in Tours and Nantes as "the first Isis-linked attacks in the country."[2]
In his 2017 book, Words Are Weapons: Inside ISIS’s Rhetoric of Terror, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, wrote that "the French government strenuously denied that (this and the 2014 Nantes attack) were terrorist attacks, but terrorist experts dissented, referring to them as examples of a 'low intensity permanent warfare.'"[29] Citing this 2014 Dijon car attack, Mark Silinsky of the United States Army War College describes a view held by "some in the West... that political violence perpetrated by Muslims in the name of Islam is not and cannot be authentically Islamic... In this view, the perpetrators are fueled with a rage unconnected to any religion. Even when perpetrators roar “Allahu Akbar” or bellow praises for the Caliphate, these proclamations are dismissed as empty or misguided rhetoric."[30] The attack is described by Emily Corner and Paul Gil, both of University College London, in their 2017 article, Is there a Nexus Between Terrorist Involvement and Mental Health in the Age of the Islamic State?[7]

Impact[edit]

In what the New York Times described as an effort "to reassure a jittery nation" government deployed 300 troops onto French streets "to guard against copycat attacks inspired by" the 20 December 2014 Tours police station stabbing, this attack on 21 December, and the 22 December 2014 Nantes attack on the city's Christmas market in which ten people were injured and one was killed.[31][8][3][32][33] According to Public Radio International, these three attacks "prompted the French government to step up security at police and fire stations across the country.[34] According to Le Monde, following the series of three attacks police were ordered keep their weapons constantly within reach, even when inside their stations, and to wear their protective vests.[3]
According to CNN security analyst Peter Bergen, this attack was one of a number of Vehicle-ramming attacks that have forced police to reconsider methods of protecting crowded public spaces.[19]

Reactions[edit]

Manuel Valls, the Prime Minister of France, expressed his "solidarity" with the victims of the attack via Twitter.[5]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  1. ^ Martin, Patrick (15 July 2016). "History of lone-wolf vehicle attacks suggests risk of emulation is very real". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Jones, Sam (15 July 2016). "France emerges as main focus for terrorists". Financial Times. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  3. ^ Jump up to:a b c d France, Charles (24 December 2014). "France orders troops on streets to halt lone-wolf terror attacks". Times (London). Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  4. ^ Jump up to:a b "France attack: Van driven into shoppers in Nantes". BBC. 3 December 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  5. ^ Jump up to:a b c "France Dijon: Driver targets city pedestrians". BBC News. 21 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  6. Jump up^ Mazzetti, Mark (17 July 2016). "In the Age of ISIS, Who’s a Terrorist, and Who’s Simply Deranged?". New York Times. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  7. ^ Jump up to:a b Corner, Emily (January 2017). "Is There a Nexus Between Terrorist Involvement and Mental Health in the Age of the Islamic State?". CTC Sentinel. 10 (1): 1. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
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  9. Jump up^ "A timeline of recent mass attacks in France". Deutsche Welle. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  10. Jump up^ Michaels, Jim (15 July 2016). "Nice attack part of emerging DIY-style terrorism trend". USA Today. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  11. Jump up^ "IS Urged Vehicle-Ramming Attacks In 2014". Sky News. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  12. Jump up^ "Terror Attack by Truck Scenario Long Feared by Law Enforcement". KTLA. CNN wire. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  13. Jump up^ Jamieson, Alastair (20 December 2016). "News Berlin Truck Attack Dec 20 2016, 9:27 am ET Truck Attacks: Low-Tech, Soft Target Terrorism Is Growing Threa". NBC News. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  14. ^ Jump up to:a b Lichfield, John (23 December 2014). "France 'terrorism': Three 'lone wolf' attacks in three days – so should the country be worried?". The Independent. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  15. Jump up^ "Vehicles becoming weapon of choice for extremists: A timeline of recent attacks". CBC News. 22 March 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  16. Jump up^ Peritz, Avi (21 December 2016). "Vehicle Attacks Like Berlin's Are Nothing New, And Are Likely To Continue". National Public Radio. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  17. Jump up^ "Motorised weapons How terrorists have used vehicles". DailyTelegraph. 8 April 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  18. Jump up^ Callimachi, Rukmini (18 July 2016). "Potent tools of death, on roads worldwide: A mainstay of commerce becomes a weapon in the attack in France". New York Times. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  19. ^ Jump up to:a b Bergen, Peter (15 July 2016). "Truck attacks -- a frightening tool of terror, with a history". CNN. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  20. Jump up^ Yourish, Karen (22 March 2016). "Where ISIS Has Directed and Inspired Attacks Around the World". New York Times. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  21. Jump up^ Coughlin, Tom (16 July 2016). "Chilling Isis video on how to turn cars into 'mowing machines'". The Times (of London). Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  22. Jump up^ Barriaux, Marrianne (24 December 2014). "Unease as France Reels from Bloody Attacks". Times of Israel. AFP. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  23. Jump up^ Evans, Michael (24 December 2014). "Britain on alert over hit-and-run terrorists". The Times. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  24. Jump up^ Leveille, David (22 December 2014). "France endures deadly attacks". Public Radio International. Reuters (credited in; not copy of). Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  25. Jump up^ Leville, David (22 December 2014). "France endures deadly attacks, but can't decide if they're terrorism". Public Radio International. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  26. Jump up^ Desai, Shweta (16 July 2016). "Lone wolf followed al Qaeda, IS manual to unleash terror in France". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  27. Jump up^ Martin Jones, David (1 January 2015). "Lone Wolves, Stray Dogs and Leaderless Resistance". The Australian. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  28. Jump up^ "Establishment fears Le Pen will be victor of France's new war". The Times. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  29. Jump up^ Salazar, Philippe-Joseph (2017). Words Are Weapons: Inside ISIS’s Rhetoric of Terror. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300231512. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  30. Jump up^ Silinsky, Mark (2016). Jihad and the West: Black Flag over Babylon. Indiana University Press. p. 153. ISBN 0253027209..
  31. Jump up^ "France to deploy soldiers after spate of attacks". BBC News. 23 December 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  32. Jump up^ "France steps up patrols after spate of lone-wolf attacks". Reuters. 23 December 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  33. Jump up^ Willsher, Kim (24 December 2014). "France plans to beef up security after series of attacks". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  34. Jump up^ Leveille, David (22 December 2014). "France endures deadly attacks, but can't decide if they're terrorism". Public Radio International. Retrieved 16 October 2017.







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Wikipedia is not news. I have to hand it to whoever wrote this article: they do a terrific job at making the reader infer something that isn't there. This was confirmed not to be a terrorist attack yet a single quote by BBC is used to uproot the "official line"; the deployment of troops was the result of a series of unrelated attacks, not this one individually; and only two people were dealt serious injuries, although 11 "looks better" for notability. Not so cleverly, the article bombards us with sources stacked together about other, actually notable, attacks to create the illusion of continued coverage. When we remove the synth and original research, we have no lasting impact. As usual, the media covered the same story but no further analysis was offered. Certainly, the brief, local impact fails WP:GEOSCOPE. Bear in mind, passing mentions don't count toward significant or sustained coverage. TheGracefulSlick (talk) 02:51, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:15, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:15, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:15, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Terrorism-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 05:41, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Delete - Per nominator. "Wikipedia is not a newspaper. And notability is not temporary". No indication of any lasting significance or coverage. Pincrete (talk) 21:46, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Note - I am not advocating for any merge whatsoever. This article cannot be merged to a list of terrorist incidents and the routine news reports gives me no indication of significance for the encyclopedia.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 16:05, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
Why was my opinion removed?
  • @TheGracefulSlick:, note that proper procedure is to flag an iVote by an SPI; not to delete it. You should revert your deletion, and tag it SPI.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:11, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • TheGracefulSlick, you really should restore the user comment you deleted; not good form. Also, I looked at the account, but it was not obvious to me that it's an SPA; might just be a new editor.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:38, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Delete. Not a terrorist attack. As a criminal act, it does not merit an article. Capitalistroadster (talk) 20:06, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Delete -- not a terrorist attack and does not meet WP:NCRIME either. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:59, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Note that Nom first attempted to delete this article with a Prod [1]; a move stopped by an alert administrator [2]. E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:11, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Gregory don't act dunce. I cannot delete an article myself. An admin always looks at a PROD tag; there is nothing alert about it nor particularly relevant.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 15:03, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Keep Contrary to nominating statement, WP:BEFORE shows two university press books (including a 2017 book by Philippe-Joseph Salazar) discussing this attack as an instance in which an individual is categorized by French authorities as acting out of mental illness, but by terrorism experts an a terrorist attack. These two assertions are, of course, not mutually exclusively; convicted criminals motivated by personal and political factors can also have histories of mental illness. My point, however, is that despite Nom's assertion, there has been WP:CONTINUEDCOVERAGE.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:51, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Nope, it changes nothing. You found a book that mentions it in the footnotes in one sentence and claim its continued coverage. It's actually called a passing mention.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 15:01, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
This is the sum total of coverage in one of these two sources " on December 21, 2015, an unnamed 40-year-old ran over 11 pedestrians across the city of Dijon, France, while shouting “Allahu akbar,” claiming he was “acting on behalf of the children of Palestine,” and brandishing a knife. Police knew the assailant for previous minor offenses, and he had spent time in psychiatric services. Due to the psychiatric history of the assailant, authorities deemed the attack not to be an act of terrorism." It does not say that 'experts' characterised the attack in any way at all, either agreeing with or disagreeing with Fr authorities. Even if it did, it would not justify the article since the content would be more useful elsewhere. Pincrete (talk) 18:36, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Keep due to WP:CONTINUEDCOVERAGE, and high quality at that, sourced by E.M.Gregory. Note that that whether the attack itself was terror or not is irrelevant for the notability - what matters is coverage, which in this case exists.Icewhiz (talk) 14:17, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Delete - Passing mentions in other sources don't rise to the level of making this encyclopedic; the conclusion that it wasn't a terrorist attack seems well-founded. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 15:15, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Note - Even now, with the recent "expansion" (as it will soon be claimed) by Gregory, the article has been bombarded by fragmented quotes and half-truths to create the illusion of ongoing coverage. Gregory has even attempted to frame this as a terror attack despite no evidence in reliable sources. Shameful and shady: the subject is not not notable, before or after the "expansion", but at least it was much more accurate than it is now. I am also citing WP:BLP concerns as a consequence of these gross inaccuracies.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 19:55, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • BLP? Perp has never been named, except by use of a police alias.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:00, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Note also that there was immediate impact, in the form of new orders to the French police to carry weapons and wear their protective vests, and the addition of 300 soldiers to security patrolling the streets of French towns.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:00, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Note - More inaccuracies. The incident is "regularly discussed" as a case of mental illness; passing mentions do not change that and the official ruling suddenly. The impact Gregory claims was the result of a culmination of several (unrelated) incidents, not this one in particular. I'm very disappointed Gregory that you are manipulating the sources in such a way. I know you can do better and more honest work.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 20:06, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • According to reported articles in Le Monde, the BBC, the Times of London, the Times of New York and other media I did not add, as a direct response to the 20 December 2014 Tours police station stabbing, this attack on 21 December, and the 22 December 2014 Nantes attack on the city's Christmas market, those new security orders and measures were enacted. Also Note that it is the fact that French authorities ruled this non terrorism related, describing it as mental illness related, has in itself produced substantive, ongoing coverage of this attack as journalists and academics consider the idiocy of regarding motivation as an either/or quesiton (either he was motivated by ideology, or he was just mentally ill) when it can obviously be both. And, of occurs, incident is also regularly discussed and/or mentions as an ISIS-inspired attack, as an example of vehicle ramming as a terrorism tactic, and among recent terrorist attacks in France. Do note that these articles in mainstream media now seem to uniformly frame this as a terrorist attack, at least, every one of the dozens of articles form 2015, '16 and '17 that I scanned did so. there were many more that I did not read. Lots more info can be added to the page.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:35, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Mental illness, terror, or any other motive - is not relevamt assessing notability. In fact even if this were a non-crime (but origianlly though to be likely a crime) the actual turn of events would be irrelevant per wp:ncrime. What is relevant here is SIGCOV and NOT.Icewhiz (talk) 20:15, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
The sources do NOT say that there was any direct response by Fr authorities to these events. The BBC in particular simply says that changes were made "following" these events. Nothing in those sources implies causation, simply sequence. We have no idea whether there was any connection at all. Pincrete (talk) 12:43, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
  • WP:HEYMANN Article has been expanded substantively, and note that except for the "impact" section sourced with 2014 sources, the expansion has been done with coverage in major media form 2015, 2016, and 2017. Nothing fancy, just some simple searches using keywords like Dijon + 2014 + attack turn up an enormous amount of coverage that editors who weighed in above will not have seen on the page.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:52, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Note - Editors do not be fooled by the inaccuries and passing mentions Gregory added to the article. If anything, all he did was create major BLP issues, framing the accused as a terrorist despite RS stating otherwise. "Nothing fancy" indeed, everything came from passing mentions, sometimes less than a sentence. It creates an illusionary presence of continued coverage but I hope any additional voters see through this.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 00:02, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
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