Four people are being tried on charges of conspiracy to commit a terrorist act in connection with the murder of a Catholic priest in a Normandy church in 2016.

(AP Photo/Daniel Cole)PARIS – The attack in Nice on Thursday follows a spate of Islamic extremist violence in France in recent years. Here is a look at some of those attacks:— Oct. 16, 2020: History teacher Samuel Paty is decapitated in the Paris suburbs. — June 1, 2017: An Algerian man wielding a hammer attacks police officers patrolling in front of Notre Dame Cathedral. He had declared his allegiance to the Islamic State. — Jan. 7-9, 2015: Attacks on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and on a kosher grocery leave 17 dead.