Terrorist activity in Belgium

1985

• 1 August 1985: Silco incident Kidnapping of Belgian-French family by the government of Libya; they were held for almost five years.[6]

1979[7]

• 22 March 1979: A Belgian bank employee was shot by the Provisional IRA, who thought it was Sir John Killick.
• 25 June 1979: An IRA bomb in Brussels targeted but failed to hit a British general.
• 6 July 1979: An IRA bomb detonates in a British consulate building in Antwerp.
• 29 August 1979: 1979 Brussels bombing. The IRA bombs the central square of Brussels whilst targeting British troops, injuring 15.
• 3 November 1979: The British consulate in Antwerp is bombed by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).[8][9]

1980

• 28 July 1980: 1980 Antwerp summer camp attack. A Syria-born Palestinian, Said Al Nasr, used grenades to attack a group of 40 Jewish children waiting with their families for a bus to take them to summer camp. One boy was killed and 20 other people were wounded in the attack.[10] The explosion killed one boy, identified as 15-year-old Parisian David Kuhan, and wounded 20, aged 13 to 27, eight of whom had to be hospitalized,[10]

1981

• 20 October 1981: 1981 Antwerp synagogue bombing The Black September Organization carried out a bombing attack at the Antwerp synagogue. Three people were killed in the attack, while 103 others were injured.[11]

The Communist Combatant Cells was a communist terror organisation in Belgium who committed fourteen attacks in the country in 1984 and 1985. Its most serious attack is mentioned below.

1985

• 1 May 1985: A car bomb exploded in front of the Federation of Belgian Enterprises building in Brussels. Two firemen were killed when trying to extinguish a fire that the terrorists deliberately set on the car.[12]

Terrorism experts regard ISIS activities in Europe's Francophone area as a single, French-Belgian nexus of Islamic State activity and attacks.[13]

2014

• 24 May 2014: Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting. ISIS directed attack on the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels by a French national in contact with ISIS.[14]

2016

• 22 March 2016: 2016 Brussels bombings. Two ISIS suicide bombings occurred at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, and one at Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels.[15] Thirty-two civilians and three perpetrators were killed, and more than 300 people were injured. Another bomb was found during a search of the airport. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attacks.[16]

• 6 August 2016: 2016 stabbing of Charleroi police officers. ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack on Belgian police officers by an Algerian national who had been scheduled for deportation.[17]

• 5 October 2016: 2016 stabbing of Brussels police officers ISIS-inspired lone wolf stabbing of three police officers in Brussels.[18][19][20]

2017

• 20 June 2017: an explosion occurred in the Brussels Central train station, a failed bombing attempt by Moroccan lone actor Oussama Zariouh.[21]

• 25 August 2017: Two soldiers were lightly wounded after a machete-wielding man attacked them in Brussels close to the Grand Place. The perpetrator was shot dead at the scene, and the surrounding area was promptly evacuated.[22]

2018

• 29 May 2018: 2018 Liège attack. A prisoner left prison, stabbed two female police officers, took their guns, shot and killed them and a civilian in Liège, Belgium. ISIS later claimed responsibility for the attack done by a soldier of the caliphate.[23]

• 6 December 1985: 1985 Liège bombing: The Liège courthouse is significantly damaged and one person is killed by a bomb attack by a lawyer.
• The Brabant killers, a trio of bandits who killed 28 people in the 1980s, have been referred to as terrorists by some.[24]