(Reuters) -A brand new chapter in mass assaults started in Good, France, in 2016, when a person drove a heavy truck into crowds of Bastille Day celebrants. Since then car assaults have turn out to be more and more frequent, although just some have been declared acts of terrorism. The New Yr’s Day assault in New Orleans, as revelers ushered in 2025, was the newest assault.
A driver crashed his pickup truck right into a crowd celebrating New Yr’s Day in New Orleans’ French Quarter and opened fireplace, killing 10 individuals and injuring greater than 35, in an early morning assault the FBI stated was a possible act of terrorism.
Car assaults have turn out to be more and more frequent around the globe. The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Safety Company calls car assaults “a significant threat in the United States” and offers a “Vehicle Incident Prevention and Mitigation Security Guide.”
Beneath is a listing in reverse chronological order of some high-profile incidents during which a car was used to ram into crowds, harming and killing bystanders.
MAGDEBURG, Germany
Final month in Germany, a 50-year-old man was charged with a number of counts of homicide and tried homicide after police stated he plowed a automotive by way of crowds at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing 5 individuals and injuring scores.
The suspect, who was in custody, is a psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia with a historical past of anti-Islamic rhetoric who has lived in Germany for nearly twenty years.
ZHUHAI, China
A driver in November rammed his automotive right into a crowd at a sports activities heart within the southern Chinese language metropolis of Zhuhai, killing 35 individuals and severely injuring 43 in one of many deadliest assaults in up to date Chinese language historical past.
Police stated the 62-year-old driver, with the surname Fan, had been captured and was hospitalized for wounds believed to have been self-inflicted with a knife to the neck and different components of his physique. Fan had been upset in regards to the cut up of property in his divorce settlement, police stated.
WAUKESHA, Wisconsin
A Wisconsin man was convicted in 2022 of killing six individuals and injuring dozens when he drove his SUV right into a Christmas parade close to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in November 2021. Darrell Brooks was accused of intentionally driving his sport utility car by way of police barricades and plowing into crowds of individuals collaborating within the annual parade in Waukesha, about 15 miles (25 km) west of downtown Milwaukee.
LONDON, Ontario
A 22-year-old self-confessed Canadian white nationalist ran over and killed 4 members of a Muslim household along with his pick-up truck in June 2021 in London, Ontario, a Canadian metropolis about 120 miles (190 km) from Toronto. In 2023 Nathaniel Veltman was convicted of first-degree homicide. The choose within the case known as it an act of terrorism.
TORONTO
In 2018, a person plowed a rented van into dozens of individuals in downtown Toronto, killing 11 individuals and injuring 15.
Alek Minassian was discovered responsible in 2021 of murdering 10 individuals and trying to homicide 16. One of many 16 later died in reference to accidents suffered within the assault, and a choose stated she thought-about the lady the eleventh homicide sufferer.
NEW YORK
In October 2017, a 34-year-old Uzbek nationwide plowed a rented truck onto a Manhattan bike path, killing eight individuals and injuring 11, together with a Belgian girl who misplaced her legs. Sayfullo Saipov, who had moved to the US in 2010, was convicted in 2023 of homicide with a aim of becoming a member of Islamic State, which the US designates a terrorist group.
BARCELONA
In August 2017, a 22-year-old man rammed a automotive into crowds in Barcelona on Las Ramblas, a preferred vacationer spot, killing 13 individuals. The person, Younes Abouyaaqoub, fled the scene on foot earlier than later stabbing a person to demise and taking his automotive to flee. Abouyaaqoub was shot lifeless by police a couple of days later close to Barcelona.
NEW YORK
In Could 2017, A U.S. Navy veteran rammed his automotive into pedestrians in Manhattan’s crowded Occasions Sq., killing a girl and injuring 22 individuals. A jury in 2022 accepted the madness protection supplied by Richard Rojas.
LONDON
In March 2017, a automotive sped throughout Westminster Bridge, mowing down pedestrians simply outdoors Parliament, killing 4 individuals and injuring dozens. The motive force, 52-year-old Khalid Masood, a British-born convert to Islam, then fatally stabbed a police officer earlier than he was shot lifeless.
BERLIN
In December 2016, Anis Amri, a failed Tunisian asylum seeker with Islamist hyperlinks, hijacked a truck, killed the motive force after which plowed it right into a crowded Berlin Christmas market, killing 11 extra individuals and injuring dozens. 4 days later he was killed in a shoot-out with police in Italy.
NICE, France
In 2016, a gunman drove a heavy truck right into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day within the French coastal metropolis of Good, killing 86 individuals and injuring scores extra in an assault claimed by Islamic State. The attacker was recognized as a Tunisian-born Frenchman.
