Police officers move anti-terror barriers in front of St John’s Church in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on January 16, 2025, during a memorial wreath-laying ceremony for the victims of the Christmas market attack.
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In recent years, not a week has gone by without a jihadist terror attack in some European city being reported in the news. Most of the perpetrators turn out to be failed asylum seekers, highlighting the fact that Western European governments have failed to protect their own citizens by mismanaging the migration crisis that started a decade ago—failing to stop illegal migrants from entering, and failing to deport those who have no right to stay.
While the terrorist acts of late may not resemble the more coordinated attacks of previous years, characterized by shootings and suicide bombings like the ones Parisians had to endure in 2015, the lone wolf-style attacks are just as daunting and terrifying, prompting European voters everywhere to turn to anti-establishment, right-wing parties that vow to get a grip on the situation.
In order to remind that Europe is under constant attack by Islamists who loathe Western values and have vowed to destroy Western civilization, europeanconservative.com has compiled a list of the most vicious attacks that have occurred in 2024 and 2025, as well as a list of thwarted terror attacks that could have caused havoc had they not been prevented.
May 26, 2025—A violent knife attack shocked Vienna, leaving a man with injuries to his head and arms. The assault, which took place in the Keplerplatz area, prompted an immediate response from emergency services and police. The motive behind the attack is still unclear.
May 23, 2025—At least three people were in critical condition following a stabbing spree at Hamburg Central Station that left a total of 12 injured. Three victims suffered serious injuries, and the remaining six sustained minor wounds. The suspect was apprehended, with the authorities linking the violence to her mental health.
May 23, 2025—Migrant children stabbed schoolmates in Germany, in two separate incidents, caused this time by children as young as eleven. An 11-year-old Iraqi boy stabbed a 13-year-old German boy on Thursday, May 22nd, in the western city of Remscheid.
May 19, 2025—A Syrian man, who stabbed five people in the western German city of Bielefeld, was revealed to have been in contact with known Islamists. After he injured five people using a knife and a sword-stick in front of a bar, Mahmoud Mhemed’s mobile phone was found during the search of his room in an asylum shelter, and the data revealed that he had contacts with three known Islamists, two of whom have been accused of terrorism. Mhemed came to Germany in 2023 and was living there on a temporary residence permit at the time of the attack.
May 14, 2025—A Syrian-Palestinian immigrant previously convicted of a knife attack was arrested (again)—this time for stabbing a Jewish man in the neck. The suspect, Malek F., was charged with attempted murder with a terrorist motive. The attack took place inside a hospital in Groningen, where the suspect was being held for compulsory psychiatric treatment after his earlier conviction.
April 24, 2025—A student carried out a stabbing spree at a high school in northwestern France, killing one classmate and wounding three others. At least one of the injured students is in critical condition. The 15-year-old attacker sent a left-wing manifesto to his classmates before the stabbing spree.
April 12, 2025—A Syrian knife attacker killed a passenger on the Berlin Subway. An argument in the subway turned lethal after a 43-year-old Syrian stabbed a 29-year-old German to death. The suspect followed his victim off the train and inflicted three stab wounds, leaving the other man to die. According to police, the assailant—whose residence status is currently unknown—then met law enforcement officers in a neighbouring street where the suspect is said to have approached the emergency services with the knife in his hand. In the further course of the incident, several shots had to be fired at the suspect.
March 27, 2025—Five were stabbed in an attack in Amsterdam. Police say the motive was a mystery; the attacker himself was stopped by a brave British tourist.
February 22, 2025—37-year-old Algerian kills a 69-year-old man and injures five police officers in Mulhouse, France, while shouting “Allahu Akbar.” The attacker was on a terror watch list and marked for deportation, but Algeria has refused to receive him.
February 21, 2025—Syrian refugee stabs and seriously injures a Spanish tourist at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial. Investigators said his goal was to kill Jews.
February 19, 2025—Austrian authorities announce the arrest of a 14-year-old boy with Turkish roots. He had been planning to carry out an attack on one of Vienna’s largest train stations, the Westbahnhof. The boy was radicalised on social media.
February 15, 2025—A 23-year-old Syrian man randomly selects and stabs passers-by in the southern Austrian town of Villach. A 14-year-old boy is killed, and five others are wounded. The perpetrator had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
February 13, 2025—Afghan asylum seeker Farhad Noori drives his car into a crowd of demonstrators in Munich, killing two people, and injuring dozens more. Prosecutors say the attacker, who is a failed asylum seeker, had an Islamist motive for the crime.
January 22, 2025—28-year-old Enamullah O. attacks a group of preschool children, killing a 2-year-old toddler and a 41-year-old man, and injuring three more people in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg. The Afghan migrant is a failed asylum seeker.
December 20, 2024—A Saudi Arabian man rams his car into a crowd of shoppers at the Magdeburg Christmas market in Germany, killing six people and injuring at least 299 others.
December 4, 2024—A 37-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker is arrested in Augsburg, Germany, for planning a terrorist attack on the city’s popular Christmas market. The man had scouted the market and engaged with Islamic State operatives online.
December 2, 2024—Four men are charged in Sweden with participation in a terrorist organisation following the raid on an Islamic association and several homes in Tyresö outside Stockholm in March of 2024. The men are suspected of preparing a terrorist attack against Jewish targets. The investigation uncovers links to the Islamic State in Somalia.
November 12, 2024—Police in Germany announce that a 17-year-old male of Turkish origin they had arrested the previous week in the northern town of Elmshorn had been planning a terror attack on a local Christmas market. The suspect was aiming to intentionally kill people by driving a truck into them.
November 6-7, 2024—In the wake of rising antisemitism in Western Europe, Israeli football fans are attacked by a pro-Palestine mob in Amsterdam following a match between Dutch team Ajax and Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv. Twenty to thirty people sustain light injuries, and five people are hospitalized.
October 19, 2024—A Libyan failed asylum seeker is arrested in Bernau, a town just outside of Berlin for intending to carry out a high-profile attack with firearms on the Israeli embassy in Germany. He reportedly was in contact with a member of the Islamic State terror group.
September 28, 2024—A 41-year-old Syrian man sets fire to two buildings, rams his vehicle into a grocery store, and threatens passers-by with a machete in the western German city of Essen, injuring a total of 31 people.
September 19, 2024—One person is killed and another seriously wounded in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam after 22-year-old Ayoub M. randomly attacks passers-by, shouting “Allahu akbar” (‘God is greatest’) during his stabbing spree.
September 13, 2024—A Syrian man is arrested for planning an Islamist machete attack on army soldiers. The suspect planned to attack Bundeswehr soldiers in Hof, northern Bavaria, during their lunch break, “aiming to kill as many of them as possible.”
September 11, 2024—France’s counterterrorism prosecutor says authorities stopped three plots to attack the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics in Paris in the summer.
September 5, 2024—An Austrian man of Bosnian extraction fires shots near the Israeli consulate in Munich before being killed by police officers. The man, who had become religiously radicalised, wanted to attack the Israeli consulate.
August 24, 2024—A 33-year-old Algerian man breaks into a synagogue in La Grande Motte, a popular French seaside resort on the Mediterranean, and sets off multiple fires during the Shabbat service but only a handful of people are inside, and no one is injured. President Emmanuel Macron describes the incident as “an act of terror.”
August 23, 2024—Issa al Hasan, a Syrian failed asylum seeker, attacks festivalgoers in the western German city of Solingen, killing three people, and injuring eight more. The Islamic State terror group claims responsibility for the attack.
August 21, 2024—German prosecutors charge two Afghan men with preparation for a terrorist attack near the parliamentary building in Stockholm, Sweden. One of them is suspected of being a member of a terrorist group, while the other is suspected of supporting a terrorist group.
August 7, 2024—Authorities arrest a 19-year-old Austrian national with North Macedonian roots, in the town of Ternitz, and a 17-year-old of Turkish-Croatian origin in Vienna for planning a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in the Austrian capital, intending to use explosives and knives. The former pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
July 29, 2024—Seventeen-year-old Axel Rudakubana kills three children and injures ten others at a Taylor Swift–themed yoga and dance workshop attended by 26 children in Southport, Merseyside. Despite attempts by the British government to conceal the perpetrator’s migrant background and his links to terrorism, the attacker is later charged under the country’s terrorism laws.
May 31, 2024—25-year-old Afghan Sulaiman Ataee, a failed asylum seeker, kills a policeman and injures five other people at an anti-Islamism rally in the southern German city of Mannheim. The perpetrator is later found to have had an Islamist motive.
April 12, 2024—Four teenagers are arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning to attack worshipers in churches and synagogues as well as police stations, using knives and Molotov cocktails. They are said to have glorified the Islamic State.
March 3, 2024—In a country-wide counter-terrorism operation, Belgian police raid four residences, arresting four Islamic State sympathisers who were actively planning a terrorist attack on a Brussels concert hall.
