This was the sixth attack on police and military personnel guarding French cities during the state of emergency . Several terrorist attacks on police and soldiers had occurred in the Paris region by August 2017 . In the February Louvre machete attack , a man attacked soldiers patroling the entrance to the Louvre museum . In the 2017 Notre Dame attack , on 6 June , a man assaulted a police officer with a hammer at the cathedral of Notre Dame . In the 6 June 2017 Champs-Élysées car ramming attack an extremist attempted to ram a car filled with explosives into a police patrol on the Champs-Élysées
Louvre machete attack
Louvre machete attack
2017 Orly Airport attack