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 |
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Vitry-Le-François train bombing | 06-18-1961 | 28 | 100+ | OAS | French colonialism | |
Issy-les-Moulineaux bombing | 03-10-1962 | 3 | 47 | OAS | French colonialism | |
16th Street Baptist Church bombing | 09-15-1963 | 4 | 22 | Ku Klux Klan | White supremacy | |
Piazza Fontana bombing | 12-21-1969 | 17 | 88 | Ordine Nuovo | Neo-fascism |
1970s
Event | Date | Country | Deaths | Injuries | Perpetrator | Motivation |
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Ezeiza massacre | 06-20-1973 | 13+ | 365+ | Peronist commando | Peronism | |
Algerian consulate bombing | 12-14-1973 | 4 | 23 | Charles Martel Group | Anti-Arab sentiment | |
Piazza della Loggia bombing | 05-28-1974 | 8 | 102 | Ordine Nuovo | Neo-fascism | |
Italicus Express bombing | 08-04-1974 | 12 | 48 | Ordine Nuovo | Neo-fascism | |
Montejurra massacre | 05-09-1976 | 2 | 3 | Franquist commando | Neo-fascism | |
Atocha massacre | 01-24-1977 | 5 | 4 | Franquist commandos | Anti-communism | |
Greensboro Massacre | 11-03-1979 | 5 | 12+ | Ku Klux Klan | White supremacy |
1980s
Event | Date | Country | Deaths | Injuries | Perpetrator | Motivation |
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Alonsotegi bombing | 01-20-1980 | 4 | 10 | Grupos Armados Españoles | Anti-Basqueism | |
Bologna massacre | 08-02-1980 | 85 | 200+ | Armed Revolutionary Nuclei | Neo-Fascism | |
Oktoberfest bombing | 09-26-1980 | 13 | 211 | Gundolf Köhler | Neo-Nazi terrorism | |
Paris synagogue bombing | 10-03-1980 | 4 | 46 | FANE | Antisemitism | |
Lynching of Michael Donald | 03-21-1981 | 1 | 0 | Ku Klux Klan | White supremacy | |
Athens bar bombing | 02-02-1985 | 0 | 78 | National Front | Anti-Americanism | |
Murder of the Goldmark family | 12-24-1985 | 4 | 0 | David L. Rice | Antisemitism, anti-communism | |
Cannes and Nice attacks | 5/12-1988 | 1 | 16 | PNFE | Islamophobia | |
Saint-Michel cinema attack | 10-22-1988 | 0 | 14 | Right-wing Catholic extremists | Christian fundamentalism | |
Strijdom Square Massacre | 11-15-1988 | 8 | 16 | Barend Strydom | Xenophobia |
1990s
Event | Date | Country | Deaths | Injuries | Motivation |
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Cave of the Patriarchs massacre | 02-25-1994 | 29 (+ 1 gunman) | 125 | Kahanism, Islamophobia | |
Ladies Center shooting | 07-29-1994 | 2 | 1 | Opposition to abortion | |
Oklahoma City bombing | 04-19-1995 | 168[1] | 680 | Opposition to US government. | |
Centennial Olympic Park bombing | 07-27-1996 | 1+1 indirect | 111 | Opposition to abortion | |
Northside Family Planning bombing | 01-16-1997 | 0 | 6 | Opposition to abortion | |
Otherside Lounge bombing | 02-21-1997 | 0 | 5 | Opposition to LGBT rights | |
London nail bombings | 04-17-1999 | 3 | 140 | Neo-Nazism | |
Murder of Björn Söderberg | 10-12-1999 | 1 | 0 | Neo-Nazism |
2000s
Event | Date | Country | Deaths | Injuries | Motivation |
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National Socialist Underground murders | 11-09-2000–04-25-2007 | 10 | 1 | Neo-Nazism | |
2002 Soweto bombings | 10-30-2002 | 1 | 3 | White supremacy | |
Cologne bombing | 06-09-2004 | 0 | 22 | Islamophobia | |
Shefa-Amr attack | 08-04-2005 | 4 | 12 | Kahanism | |
Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue stabbing | 01-11-2006 | 0 | 8 | Antisemitism | |
Moscow market bombing | 08-21-2006 | 13 | 47 | Xenophobia | |
Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting | 07-28-2008 | 2 | 7 | Hatred of liberals and Democrats | |
2009 Vítkov arson attack | 04-18-2009 | 0 | 3 | Antiziganism | |
2009–10 Malmö shootings | 10-10-2009 (first incident). | 2 | 13 | Xenophobia.[2] |
2010s
2020s
Event | Date | Country | Deaths | Injuries | Motivation |
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2020 Hanau shootings | 02-19-2020 | 10 (+ 1 gunman) | 5 | Xenophobia | |
2020 boogaloo killings | 05-29-2020 (first incident) | 2 | 3 (+ 1 suspect) | Boogaloo movement |
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- Pilcher, James. "Charlottesville suspect's beliefs were 'along the party lines of the neo-Nazi movement,' ex-teacher says". Cincinnati.com. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
- ABC News. "Mail bomber Cesar Sayoc obsessed with Trump, Fox News, chilling new court filings show". ABC News. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
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