List of right-wing terrorist attacks

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, ethnonationalist, and anti-government ideologies.

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
16th Street Baptist Church bombing 09-15-1963  United States. 4 22 Ku Klux Klan White supremacy
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 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
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
Athens bar bombing 02-02-1985  Greece 0 78 National Front Anti-Americanism
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
Strijdom Square Massacre 11-15-1988  South Africa 8 16 Barend Strydom Xenophobia

1990s
Event Date Country Deaths Injuries Motivation
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre 02-25-1994  Palestinian Territories 29 (+ 1 gunman) 125 Kahanism, Islamophobia
Ladies Center shooting 07-29-1994  United States 2 1 Opposition to abortion
Oklahoma City bombing 04-19-1995  United States 168[1] 680 Opposition to US government
Centennial Olympic Park bombing[2][3] 07-27-1996  United States 1+1 indirect 111 Opposition to abortion
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
London nail bombings 04-17-1999  United Kingdom 3 140 Neo-Nazism
Murder of Björn Söderberg 10-12-1999  Sweden 1 0 Neo-Nazism

2000s
Event Date Country Deaths Injuries Motivation
National Socialist Underground murders 11-09-2000–04-25-2007  Germany 10 1 Neo-Nazism
2002 Soweto bombings 10-30-2002  South Africa 1 3 White supremacy
Cologne bombing 06-09-2004  Germany 0 22 Islamophobia
Shefa-Amr attack 08-04-2005  Israel 4 12 Kahanism
Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue stabbing 01-11-2006  Russia 0 8 Antisemitism
Moscow market bombing 08-21-2006  Russia 13 47 Xenophobia
Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting 07-28-2008  United States 2 7 Hatred of liberals and Democrats
2009 Vítkov arson attack 04-18-2009  Czech Republic 0 3 Antiziganism
2009–10 Malmö shootings 10-10-2009 (first incident)  Sweden 2 13 Xenophobia.[4]

2010s
Event Date Country Deaths Injuries Motivation
2011 Norway attacks 07-22-2011  Norway 77 319 Islamophobia[5]
Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting 08-05-2012  United States 7 (+ 1 gunman) 3 White supremacy.[6]
Murder of Mohammed Saleem 04-29-2013  United Kingdom 1 0 Islamophobia, white supremacy
2014 Las Vegas shootings 06-08-2014  United States 3 (+ 2 gunmen) 0 Anti-government beliefs[7]
Charleston church shooting 06-17-2015  United States 9 1 White supremacy[8]
Murder of Jo Cox 06-16-2016  United Kingdom 1 1 White supremacy[9]
Quebec City mosque shooting 01-29-2017  Canada 6 19 Islamophobia
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
Charlottesville car attack 12-08-2017  United States 1 28 Neo-Nazism[10]
Murder of Blaze Bernstein 01-10-2018  United States 1 0 Neo-Nazism
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]
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting 10-27-2018  United States 11 6 Antisemitism
Christchurch mosque shootings 03-15-2019  New Zealand 51 49 Islamophobia
Poway synagogue shooting 04-27-2019  United States 1 3 Antisemitism
Murder of Walter Lübcke 06-02-2019  Germany 1 0 Neo-Nazism
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 05-29-2020 (first incident)  United States 2 3 (+ 1 suspect) Boogaloo movement

See also

References
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