Real-Life Villains

2023

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  • January 1 - Sinaloa Cartel-linked gang Los Mexicles attacks a prison in Juarez, Chihuahua, rescuing their leader Ernesto Alfredo Piñón de la Cruz and at least 29 other prisoners. 10 officers, 7 prisoners and two gunmen are killed, while 13 total are injured.
  • January 4 - 2023 Enoch, Utah shooting
  • January 5 - Ovidio Guzmán López is arrested in at his ranch near Culiacan, Sinaloa. Failed rescue efforts by the Sinaloa Cartel cause 29 deaths (10 military and 19 cartel) and 36 injuries.
  • January 8 - 2023 Brazilian Congress storming: supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian National Congress, the Supreme Federal Court and the Presidential Palace of Planalto in an attempt to overturn the election results.
  • January 27 - 2023 Neve Yaakov shooting
  • January 30 - A Jamaat-ul-Ahrar suicide bombing inside a mosque in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, kills 84 people and injures over 220 others.
  • February 25 - Bola Tinubu is elected President of Nigeria, succeeding Muhammadu Buhari.
  • March 8 - Allied Democratic Forces jihadist insurgents use machetes to kill about 35 people in the village of Mukondi, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • March 17 - The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin, the first against a leader of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, in regards to war crimes committed in Ukraine. A warrant for Maria Lvova-Belova, Russian commissioner for children's rights, is also issued.
  • March 27 - 2023 Nashville school shooting
  • April 15 - Beginning of the Sudanese Civil War.
  • April 25 - A mass cult suicide is uncovered in Shakahola forest in Kenya. 429 followers of the Good News International Ministries are found in shallow graves throughout the forest, with over 613 people missing.
  • May 4 - Mladenovac and Smederevo shootings
  • June 20 - At least 46 people are killed after a riot between MS-13 and Barrio 18 gang members at a women's prison near Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • June 23 - The Wagner Group, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, begins an armed conflict with the Russian military, seizing the city of Rostov-on-Don and portions of the Voronezh Oblast before withdrawing the next day, after a peace agreement brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
  • July 26 - President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger is toppled in a coup d'état after members of his presidential guard and the armed forces seize control of the country and install General Abdourahamane Tchiani as leader of a military junta known as the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland.
  • July 30 - 63 people are killed and over 200 are injured after a suicide bombing occurs in Khar, Pakistan; the Islamic State – Khorasan Province claims responsibility for the attack.
  • August 30 - Following the announcement of incumbent president Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection as President of Gabon after the 2023 presidential election, the military launches a successful coup d'état and creates the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions to govern the country, ending the rule of the Bongo family after 56 years in power.
  • August 31 - 2023 Johannesburg building fire: 77 people are killed and more than 85 are injured in a fire in a building that had been taken over by gangs who rented it out to squatters.
  • September 19 - Azerbaijan launches a military offensive against the Armenia-backed Republic of Artsakh, which ends with a swift Azerbaijani victory. Protests erupt in Armenia, Artsakh announces the dissolution of government institutions, and over 100,000 ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh.
  • October 7 - Hamas launches a large-scale attack from the Gaza Strip, infiltrating southern Israel, prompting a full military response from the Israel Defense Forces. Israel launches numerous air strikes on Lebanon and Syria, after rockets are fired by Hezbollah and attempts are made to penetrate Israel. Israel's Security Cabinet formally declares war for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. This marks the beginning of both the Gaza War and the Gaza Genocide.
  • October 15 - The Law and Justice party wins the most seats in 2023 Polish parliamentary election, but loses its majority.
  • October 17 - An explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital kills 500 people, causing the largest loss of life during the conflict between Gaza and Israel since 2006.
  • October 25 - 2023 Lewiston shootings
  • November 6 - The death toll in Gaza is reported to have passed 10,000. Speaking with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Joe Biden calls for a "humanitarian pause" in the fighting to increase the flow of aid to civilians.
  • November 22 - Israel and Hamas agree to a four-day ceasefire, the first pause in fighting since 7 October, during which many Israeli hostages will be released, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
  • November 22 - Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) wins the most seats in the 2023 Dutch general election.
  • December 21 - 2023 Prague shooting
  • December 22 - The death toll in Gaza is reported to have passed 20,000, almost 1 percent of its population and surpassing the casualties in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
  • December 29 - Russia launches the largest wave of drones and missiles on Ukrainian cities since the start of the war in a overnight assault, killing at least 39 people and injuring at least 160 others. Ukraine launches a drone assault the following day, killing at least 21 people, including three children, and injuring 110 others, including 17 children.

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  • January 4 - Victims of the 2023 Enoch, Utah shooting:
    • Tausha Haight
    • Gail Earl
    • Macie Haight
    • Brilee Haight
    • Ammon Haight
    • Sienna Haight
    • Gavin Haight
  • April 13 - Ralph Yarl
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