13 November 1893 stabbing
| 13 November 1893 stabbing | |
|---|---|
| Part of Ère des attentats | |
Depiction of the 13 November stabbing in Le Petit Journal (2 December 1893) | |
| Location | Paris |
| Coordinates | 48°52′2.73432″N 2°20′0.48797″E / 48.8674262000°N 2.3334688806°E |
| Date | 13 November 1893 |
Attack type | stabbing |
| Deaths | 0 |
| Injured | 1 |
| Perpetrator | Léon Léauthier |
No. of participants | 1 |
| Motive | Anarchism |
| Convicted | 1 |
| Verdict | Guilty and deported to a penal colony |
The 13 November 1893 stabbing was an attack carried out in Paris by the anarchist militant Léon Léauthier against Rista Georgevitch, a Serbian diplomat targeted because 'he looked bourgeois'. The attack, which took place in the middle of the Ère des attentats (1892–1894), was carried out by the anarchist in response to his dismissal from his job as a shoemaker and the misery in which he found himself. It was one of the first acts of indiscriminate terrorism in history, occurring only six days after the Liceu bombing and a few months before the Café Terminus bombing, making it a foundational event for modern terrorism.
The victim ultimately survived his injuries, while Léauthier was sentenced to life imprisonment in a penal colony, where he was assassinated by the police in 1894.