In February 1894, Frenchman Emile Henry tossed a bomb into a Paris restaurant.
Parisian members of the Cagoule at a party celebrating the terrorist organisation's activities, December 3rd, 1937
Between 1935 and 1937, La Cagoule (France's fascist Comité Secret d’Action Révolutionnaire) carried out assassinations, bombings, sabotage of armaments, and other violent activities, "some intended to cast suspicion on communists and add to political instability."
"Cagoule activists committed several anonymous bombings, notably in Paris."
In 1943, France's fascist Vichy regime founded the Milice, a terrorist force which hunted down and killed opponents.
1961 massacre in Paris.
In 1961, "unarmed Algerian Muslims demonstrating in central Paris against a discriminatory curfew were beaten, shot, garotted and even drowned by police and special troops.
"Thousands were rounded up and taken to detention centers around the city and the prefecture of police, where there were more beatings and killings.
"How many died? No one seems to know for sure, even now. Probably around 200."
"In March 1962, over 100 bombs a day were detonated by the OAS ... with targets including hospitals and schools."
The OAS "engaged in indiscriminate killing sprees - against cleaning-ladies on 5 May; on 15 March 1962 - against six inspectors of the National Education Ministry.."
After France decided to withdraw from Algeria, the OAS committed terrorist atrocities in France.
Jean-Marie Le Pen (above left), the founder of France's Front National party, says that the Charlie Hebdo attacks may have been the work of certain Western intelligence services.
Jean-Marie Le Pen says that the attack could have been the work of American or Israeli agents trying to start a civil war between Islam and the West.
