Aubervilliers restaurant attack
On 11 June 2017, a Molotov cocktail was thrown in a restaurant in Aubervilliers, a suburb of northern Paris in France. The attack injured 12 people, including six policemen, and caused a large blaze of the five-storey block the restaurant was part of. It happened on the day of French parliamentary elections.
Three people were airlifted to hospital suffering severe burns. The arson attack has been linked to a "robbery gone wrong". It has been reported by local media outlets that staff stopped an attempted robbery before the suspect threw the petrol bomb whilst trying to escape.
