Friday’s carnage perhaps gave us all an insight into what it must have been like for the Jewish community in Paris, who lost four of their members in the January terror attacks just because they were in the wrong supermarket at the wrong time of day and – in the eyes of gunman Amedy Coulibaly – they were the wrong people.
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A gunman claiming links to Al Qaeda kills three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in Toulouse, southern France. The Charlie Hebdo attackers and the hostage-taker are killed in separate shootouts with police. In custody, he expresses his hatred for France, the police, the military and Jews.
France’s BFM television reports that there were several dead in the restaurant shooting in the 10th arrondissement of the capital. Prosecutors say they found documents about Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State at his home, and that he had been in touch with a suspected jihadist in Syria about an attack on a church.
June 26: Yassin Salhi, 35, kills and beheads his boss Herve Cornara and displays the severed head on the fence of a gas plant surrounded by Islamic flags.
Tourists and visitors should go to Paris to send a message to terrorists and their sympathisers: that this atrocity, nor any other, will scare the French people into changing their behaviour or their way of life.
Couibaly had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
French officials successfully foiled a terrorist plot when they arrested four young men aged 16 to 23, including a former soldier.
Two off-duty USA servicemen and a friend prevent a bloodbath on a high-speed Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris. Once French police officials began coordinated measures against the assaults and started evacuating Bataclan, the attackers blew themselves up with suicide belts, killing 4 more people as the police entered the premises.
The victims of the Kosher store attack were like those Parisian victims on Friday night, simply killed for being who they are.
French authorities said that their actions nearly certainly avoided a bloodbath.
Subsequently, police storm the building where the Hebdo suspects were holed up, killing them and rescuing a hostage they had taken amid gunshots and explosions.
“The big question on everyone’s mind is, were these attackers, if they turn out to be connected to one of the groups in Syria, were they homegrown terrorists or were they returning fighters from having served” with the Islamic State group, Jenkins said.
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