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This is a list of right-wing terrorist attacks. Right-wing terrorism includes terrorist acts motivated by neo-Nazi, neo-fascist, white nationalist, anti-Semitism, Christian terrorism, white separatist, anti-abortion terrorism, and ethnonationalist ideologies.[citation needed]
1960s[]
| Event | Date | Country | Deaths | Injuries | Perpetrator | Motivation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vitry-Le-François train bombing | 06-18-1961 |  France
|
28 | 100+ | OAS | French colonialism |
| Issy-les-Moulineaux bombing | 03-10-1962 | France
|
3 | 47 | OAS | French colonialism |
| Assassination of Medgar Evers | 06-12-1963 |  United States.
|
1 | 0 | Ku Klux Klan | White supremacy |
| 16th Street Baptist Church bombing | 09-15-1963 | United States.
|
4 | 22 | Ku Klux Klan | White supremacy |
| Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner | 06-21-1964 | United States.
|
3 | 0 | Ku Klux Klan | White supremacy |
| Assassination of Viola Liuzzo | 03-25-1965 | United States.
|
1 | 0 | Ku Klux Klan | White supremacy |
| Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. | 04-04-1968 | United States.
|
1 | 0 | James Earl Ray | White supremacy, opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| Piazza Fontana bombing | 12-21-1969 |  Italy
|
17 | 88 | Ordine Nuovo | Neo-fascism |
1970s[]
| Event | Date | Country | Deaths | Injuries | Perpetrator | Motivation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ezeiza massacre | 06-20-1973 |  Argentina
|
13+ | 365+ | Peronist commando | Right-wing Peronism |
| Algerian consulate bombing | 12-14-1973 | France
|
4 | 23 | Charles Martel Group | Anti-Arab sentiment |
| Piazza della Loggia bombing | 05-28-1974 | Italy
|
8 | 102 | Ordine Nuovo | Neo-fascism |
| Italicus Express bombing | 08-04-1974 | Italy
|
12 | 48 | Ordine Nuovo | Neo-fascism |
| Montejurra massacre | 05-09-1976 |  Spain
|
2 | 3 | Franquist commando | Neo-fascism |
| Atocha massacre | 01-24-1977 |  Spain
|
5 | 4 | Franquist commandos | Anti-communism |
| Taksim Square massacre | 05-01-1977 |  Turkey
|
34-42 | 126-220 | Unknown | Targeted leftist demonstrators on International Workers' day |
| Joseph Paul Franklin Murders | 07-29-1977 - 08-20-1980 | United States
|
28+ | 4 | Joseph Paul Franklin | White supremcy, antisemitism |
| Murder of Danny Lockin | 08-21-1977 | United States
|
1 | 0 | Charles Leslie Hopkins | Homophobia |
| Murder of Altab Ali | 05-04-1978 |  United Kingdom
|
1 | 0 | Roy Arnold, Carl Ludlow, unnamed 16-year old boy | Hatred for British Bangladeshis |
| Bahçelievler massacre | 10-09-1978 | Turkey
|
7 | 0 | Grey Wolves | Turkish Ultranationalism |
| Maraş massacre | 12-23 - 12-26 1978 | Turkey
|
105 - 185 | 1,000 - 3,000 | Grey Wolves | Turkish Ultranationlism |
| Greensboro Massacre | 11-03-1979 | United States
|
5 | 12+ | Ku Klux Klan | White supremacy |
1980s[]
| Event | Date | Country | Deaths | Injuries | Perpetrator | Motivation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alonsotegi bombing | 01-20-1980 | Spain
|
4 | 10 | Grupos Armados Españoles | Anti-Basqueism |
| Bologna massacre | 08-02-1980 | Italy
|
85 | 200+ | Armed Revolutionary Nuclei | Neo-Fascism |
| Oktoberfest bombing | 09-26-1980 |  West Germany
|
13 | 211 | Gundolf Köhler | Neo-Nazi terrorism |
| Paris synagogue bombing | 10-03-1980 | France
|
4 | 46 | FANE | Antisemitism |
| Lynching of Michael Donald | 03-21-1981 | United States
|
1 | 0 | Ku Klux Klan | White supremacy |
| Riocentro attack | 04-39-1981 |  Brazil
|
1 (+1 bomber) | 1 | Guilherme Pereira do Rosário and Wilson Luiz Chaves Machado | Attempt to halt Brazil's transition to democracy |
| Killing of Vincent Chin | 06-19-1982 | United States
|
1 | 0 | Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz | Anti-Asian sentiment |
| Murder of Declan Flynn | 09-09-1982 |  Ireland
|
1 | 0 | Anthony Maher, Robert Armstrong, Patrick Kavanagh, Colin Donovan, unnamed 14-year old boy | Homophobia |
| Alfortville Armenian Genocide Memorial bombings | 05-03-1984 | France
|
0 | 13 | Grey Wolves | Anti-Armenianism |
| National Embassy of Quebec shooting | 05-07-1984 |  Canada
|
3 | 13 | Denis Lortie | Opposition to Parti Québécois |
| Murder of Alan Berg | 06-18-1984 | United States
|
1 | 0 | The Order | Antisemitism, white supremacy |
| Athens bar bombing | 02-02-1985 |  Greece
|
0 | 78 | National Front | Anti-Americanism |
| Rivoli Beaubourg cinema bombing | 03-30-1985 | France
|
0 | 18 | Unknown | Antisemtism |
| Murder of the Goldmark family | 12-24-1985 | United States
|
4 | 0 | David L. Rice | Antisemitism, anti-communism |
| Cannes and Nice attacks | 5/12-1988 | France
|
1 | 16 | PNFE | Islamophobia |
| Saint-Michel cinema attack | 10-22-1988 | France
|
0 | 14 | Right-wing Catholic extremists | Christian fundamentalism |
| Murder of Mulugeta Seraw | 11-13-1988 | United States
|
1 | 0 | White Aryan Resistance | White supremacy |
| Strijdom Square Massacre | 11-15-1988 |  South Africa
|
8 | 16 | Barend Strydom | Xenophobia |
| Assassination of David Webster | 05-01-1989 | South Africa
|
1 | 0 | Civil Cooperation Bureau | Opposition on Webter's anti-apartheid views |
1990s[]
| Event | Date | Country | Deaths | Injuries | Motivation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 riot in Zadar | 05-02-1991 |  Croatia
|
13 | 0 | Anti-Serb sentiment |
| Battle of Ventersdorp | 08-09-1991 | South Africa
|
4 | 48 | Opposition to negotiations to end apartheid |
| Hoyerswerda riots | 09-17 - 09-23-1991 | Germany
|
0 | 32 | Neo-Nazism |
| Toronto abortion clinic firebombing | 05-18-1992 | Canada
|
0 | 0 | Opposition to abortion |
| 1992-1993 Norway church arson attacks | 06-06-1992 - 01-1993 |  Norway
|
0 | 0 | Satanism, anti-religious beliefs |
| Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots | 08-22 - 08-24-1992 | Germany
|
0 | 204 | Neo-Nazism |
| Murder of David Gunn | 03-10-1993 | United States
|
1 | 0 | Opposition to abortion |
| Assassination of Chris Hani | 04-10-1993 | South Africa
|
1 | 0 | Anti-communism |
| Murder of Sandro Beyer | 04-29-1993 | Germany
|
1 | 0 | Neo-Nazism |
| 1993 Solingen arson attack | 05-28-1993 | Germany
|
5 | 14 | Neo-Nazism |
| Storming of Kempton Park World Trade Centre | 06-25-1993 | South Africa
|
0 | 0 | Opposition to negotiations to end apartheid |
| Luigi's Restaurant Shooting | 08-06-1993 | United States
|
4 | 8 (+ 1 gunman) | Opposition to President Bill Clinton lifting ban on homosexuals to serve in the millitary |
| Cave of the Patriarchs massacre | 02-25-1994 |  Palestinian Territories
|
29 (+ 1 gunman) | 125 | Kahanism, Islamophobia |
| Invasion of Bophuthatswana | 03-11-1994 | South Africa
|
54 | 288 | White Supremacy, opposition to negotiations to end apartheid. |
| 1994 Osijek café shooting | 06-18-1994 | Croatia
|
4 | 8 | Anti-Serb sentiment, Croatian nationalism |
| Ladies Center shooting | 07-29-1994 | United States
|
2 | 1 | Opposition to abortion |
| 1994 Garson Romalis assassination attempt | 11-08-1994 | Canada
|
0 | 1 | Opposition to abortion |
| Brookline abortion clinic shootings | 12-30-1994 | United States
|
2 | 5 | Opposition to abortion |
| Oklahoma City bombing | 04-19-1995 | United States
|
168[1] | 680 | Opposition to US government |
| Macedonia Baptist Church arson | 06-21-1995 | United States
|
0 | 0 | White supremacy |
| Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin | 11-04-1995 |  Israel
|
1 | 0 | Opposition to Rabin's peace initiative with Palestine. |
| Vercors Massacre | 12-15 or 12-16-1995 | France
|
16 (+2 gunmen) | 0 | Support for the Order of the Solar Temple |
| Mueller Family Murders | 01-11-1996 | United States
|
3 | 0 | Antisemitism |
| Centennial Olympic Park bombing[2][3] | 07-27-1996 | United States
|
1+1 indirect | 111 | Opposition to abortion and socialism |
| Northside Family Planning bombing | 01-16-1997 | United States
|
0 | 6 | Opposition to abortion |
| Otherside Lounge bombing | 02-21-1997 | United States
|
0 | 5 | Opposition to LGBT rights |
| Victory Memorial to Soviet Army bombing | 06-05-1997 |  Latvia
|
2 (+2 bombers) | 0 | Latvian nationalism |
| Murder of Dušan Jovanović | 10-18-1997 |  Serbia and Montenegro
|
1 | 0 | Anti-Romanian sentiment |
| Birmingham abortion clinic bombing | 01-29-1998 | United States
|
1 | 1 | Opposition to abortion |
| Murder of James Byrd Jr. | 06-07-1998 | United States
|
1 | 0 | White supremacy |
| Murder of Matthew Shepard | 10-12-1998 | United States
|
1 | 0 | Homophobia |
| Murder of Barnett Slepian | 10-23-1998 | United States
|
1 | 0 | Opposition to abortion |
| Panda Bar massacre | 12-14-1998 | Serbia and Montenegro
|
6 | 15 | Anti-Serb sentiment |
| London nail bombings | 04-17-1999 | United Kingdom
|
3 | 140 | Neo-Nazism |
| Murders of Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder | 07-01-1999 | United States
|
2 | 0 | Homophobia, white supremacy |
| 1999 Illinois and Indiana shootings | 07-01 - 07-04-1999 | United States
|
2 (+ 1 gunman) | 10 | Neo-Nazism |
| Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting | 08-10-1999 | United States
|
1 | 5 | Neo-Nazism |
| Wedgewood Baptist Church shooting | 09-15-1999 | United States
|
8 (+ 1 gunman) | 7 | Anti-baptism |
| Murder of Björn Söderberg | 10-12-1999 |  Sweden
|
1 | 0 | Neo-Nazism |
2000s[]
| Event | Date | Country | Deaths | Injuries | Motivation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 Pittsburgh shootings | 04-28-2000 | United States
|
5 | 1 | Neo-Nazism |
| 2000 Garson Romalis assassination attempt | 07-11-2000 | Canada
|
0 | 1 | Opposition to abortion |
| National Socialist Underground murders | 11-09-2000 – 04-25-2007 | Germany
|
10 | 1 | Neo-Nazism |
| Podujevo bus bombing | 02-16-2001 |  Yugoslavia
|
12 | 40 | Anti-Serb sentiment |
| East Melbourne Fertility Clinic shooting | 07-16-2001 |  Australia
|
1 | 0 | Opposition to abortion |
| Murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi | 09-15-2001 | United States
|
1 | 0 | Islamophobia, Anti-Middle Eastern sentiment |
| 2001 Dallas Shootings | 09-16 - 10-04-2001 | United States
|
2 | 1 | Islamophobia |
| 2002 Soweto bombings | 10-30-2002 |  South Africa
|
1 | 3 | White supremacy |
| Sizzlers massacre | 01-20-2003 | South Africa
|
9 | 1 | Homophobia |
| Goraždevac murders | 08-13-2003 | Serbia and Montenegro
|
2 | 4 | Anti-Serb sentiment |
| Cologne bombing | 06-09-2004 | Germany
|
0 | 22 | Islamophobia |
| Shefa-Amr attack | 08-04-2005 | Israel
|
4 | 12 | Kahanism |
| 2005 Cronulla riots | 12-11-2005 | Australia
|
0 | 2 | Anti-Arabism |
| Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue stabbing | 01-11-2006 |  Russia
|
0 | 8 | Antisemitism |
| Jacob Robida shootings and manhunt | 02-02 - 02-05-2006 | United States
|
3 (+ 1 gunman) | 3 | Neo-Nazism, homophobia |
| Moscow market bombing | 08-21-2006 | Russia
|
13 | 47 | Xenophobia |
| Death of Sean Kennedy | 05-16-2007 | United States
|
1 | 0 | Homophobia |
| Murder of Carlos Palomino | 11-11-2007 |  Spain
|
1 | 0 | Neo-Nazism |
| Skierlik township shooting | 01-14-2008 | South Africa
|
4 | 8 | White supremacy, Afrikaner nationalism |
| 2008-2009 Murders of Roma in Hungary | 06-02-2008 - 08-03-2009 |  Hungary
|
6 | 0 | Neo-Nazism |
| Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting | 07-28-2008 | United States
|
2 | 7 | Hatred of liberals and Democrats |
| Woodburn bank bombing | 12-12-2008 | United States
|
2 | 2 | Anti-government beliefs |
| 2009 Vítkov arson attack | 04-18-2009 |  Czech Republic
|
0 | 3 | Antiziganism |
| Assassination of George Tiller | 05-31-2009 | United States
|
1 | 0 | Opposition to abortion |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting | 06-10-2009 | United States
|
1 | 2 (+ 1 gunman) | Neo-Nazism |
| 2009–10 Malmö shootings | 10-10-2009 (first incident) | Sweden
|
2 | 13 | Xenophobia.[4][failed verification] |
2010s[]
| Event | Date | Country | Deaths | Injuries | Motivation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 West Memphis police shootings | 05-20-2010 | United States
|
4 (+2 gunmen) | 2 | Support for the sovereign citizen movement |
| 2011 Tucson Shooting | 01-08-2011 | United States
|
6 | 15 | Anti-government beliefs, specifically targeted U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords who was injured. |
| Spokane bombing attempt | 01-17-2011 | United States
|
0 | 0 | White supremacy |
| Murder of James Craig Anderson | 06-26-2011 | United States
|
1 | 9 | White supremacy |
| 2011 Norway attacks | 07-22-2011 | Norway
|
77 | 319 | Islamophobia[5] |
| 2011 Florence shootings | 12-13-2011 | Italy
|
3 (+ 1 gunman) | 3 | Racism |
| Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting | 08-05-2012 | United States
|
8 (+ 1 gunman) | 3 | White supremacy[6] |
| Murder of Mohammed Saleem | 04-29-2013 | United Kingdom
|
1 | 0 | Islamophobia, white supremacy |
| 2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting | 11-01-2013 | United States
|
1 | 7 | Hatred for TSA and US Government |
| 2013 Stockholm riots | 12-15-2013 | Sweden
|
0 | 4 | Neo-Nazism |
| Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting | 04-13-2014 | United States
|
3 | 0 | Neo-Nazism |
| 2014 Las Vegas shootings | 06-08-2014 | United States
|
3 (+ 2 gunmen) | 0 | Anti-government beliefs[7] |
| 2014 Pennsylvania State Police barracks attack | 09-12-2014 | United States
|
1 | 1 | Attempt to start a reveloution |
| Charleston church shooting | 06-17-2015 | United States
|
9 | 1 | White supremacy[8] |
| Trollhättan school stabbing | 10-22-2015 | Sweden
|
4 (+ 1 perpetrator) | 1 | Racism |
| Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting | 11-27-2015 | United States
|
3 | 9 | Opposition to abortion |
| Murder of Jo Cox | 06-16-2016 | United Kingdom
|
1 | 1 | White supremacy[9] |
| 2016 Minneapolis Shooting | 06-29-2016 | United States
|
2 | 0 | Islamophobia |
| 2016 Munich Shooting | 07-22-2016 | Germany
|
10 (+ 1 gunman) | 36 | Xenophobia |
| Comet Ping Pong shooting | 12-04-2016 | United States
|
0 | 0 | Support for Pizzagate conspiracy theory |
| Quebec City mosque shooting | 01-29-2017 | Canada
|
6 | 19 | Islamophobia |
| 2017 Olathe, Kansas shooting | 02-22-2017 | United States
|
1 | 2 | Anti-Iranian sentiment |
| Murder of Timothy Caughman | 03-20-2017 | United States
|
1 | 0 | White supremacy |
| 2017 Portland train attack | 05-26-2017 | United States
|
2 | 3 | White supremacy and Islamophobia |
| 2017 Finsbury Park attack | 06-19-2017 | United Kingdom
|
1 | 10 | Islamophobia |
| Assault of DeAndre Harris | 08-12-2017 | United States
|
0 | 1 | Neo-Nazism |
| Charlottesville car attack | 08-12-2017 | United States
|
1 | 28 | Neo-Nazism[10] |
| Aztec High School Shooting | 12-07-2017 | United States
|
3 (+ 1 gunman) | 0 | Xenophobia, alt-right beliefs |
| Murder of Blaze Bernstein | 01-10-2018 | United States
|
1 | 0 | Neo-Nazism |
| Murder of Mireillie Knoll | 03-23-2018 | France
|
1 | 0 | Antisemitism |
| Macerata shooting | 02-03-2018 | Italy
|
0 | 6 | Racism |
| October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts | 10-22-2018 | United States
|
0 | 0 | Support for Donald Trump[11] |
| Jeffersontown Kroger shooting | 10-24-2018 | United States
|
2 | 0 | White supremacy |
| Pittsburgh synagogue shooting | 10-27-2018 | United States
|
11 | 6 | Antisemitism |
| Christchurch mosque shootings | 03-15-2019 |  New Zealand
|
51 | 49 | Islamophobia, white supremacy |
| Escondido mosque fire | 03-24-2019 | United States
|
0 | 0 | Islamophobia |
| Louisiana black church fires | 03-26 - 04-04-2019 | United States
|
0 | 0 | White Supremacy |
| Poway synagogue shooting | 04-27-2019 | United States
|
1 | 3 | Antisemitism |
| Murder of Walter Lübcke | 06-02-2019 | Germany
|
1 | 0 | Neo-Nazism |
| 2019 Dallas courthouse shooting | 06-17-2019 | United States
|
1 (The gunman) | 1 | Support for the Alt-Right |
| 2019 El Paso shooting | 08-03-2019 | United States
|
23 | 23 | White supremacy, Hispanophobia.[12] |
| Bærum mosque shooting | 08-10-2019 | Norway
|
1 | 1 | Islamophobia |
| Halle synagogue shooting | 10-09-2019 | Germany
|
2 | 2 | Antisemitism |
| Bayonne mosque shooting | 10-28-2019 | France
|
0 | 2 | Islamophobia |
2020s[]
| Event | Date | Country | Deaths | Injuries | Motivation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Hanau shootings | 02-19-2020 | Germany
|
10 (+ 1 gunman) | 5 | Xenophobia |
| 2020 boogaloo killings | 05-29 - 06-06-2020 | United States
|
2 | 4 (+1 gunman) | Support for the Boogaloo movement |
| 2020 Zagreb shooting | 10-12-2020 | Croatia
|
1 (The gunman) | 1 | Support for the Alt-Right |
| 2021 storming of the United States Capitol[13] | 01-06-2021 | United States
|
5 | 138+ | Trumpism[14] |
| London, Ontario truck attack | 06-06-2021 | Canada
|
4 | 1 | Islamophobia |
| Killing of Samuel Luiz | 07-03-2021 | Spain
|
1 | 0 | Homophobia |
See also[]
References[]
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- ^ ABC News. "Mail bomber Cesar Sayoc obsessed with Trump, Fox News, chilling new court filings show". ABC News. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
- ^ Christina Maxouris; Nicole Chavez; Eric Levenson; Amir Vera. "El Paso vigils bring together a city in mourning after mass shooting". CNN. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
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