TERRORIST ATTACKS IN FRANCE IN 2015
Nov - More than 100 killed in simultaneous shootings and explosions at six locations including Stade de France and the Bataclan concert hall.
Aug - American servicemen help subdue a gunmen in an attempted attack on a Thalys train in France.
July - French authorities foil a "terrorist" plot to capture and decapitate a member of its armed forces.
June - Yassin Salhi, 35, confesses to beheading his boss during an attack on a gas factory in Lyon.
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April - An Algerian IT student was detained when police discovered his plans to attack one or two churches in the town of Villejuif.
- French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says five terror attacks have been "foiled" in his country since 2013.
March - Counter-terrorism officials say threats of a jihadist attack in France at a level "without precedent" and new attacks are inevitable.
Feb - A knife-wielding man attacks three soldiers guarding a Jewish community centre on the French Riviera.
Jan - Jihadist attacks against Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket leave 17 dead.
Note - More than 500 French fighters are thought to be with IS in Syria and Iraq. Official figures show 250 have returned and some 750 expressed a desire to go there.
