Three people are said to have been killed in the explosions.
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A gun assault on the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo killed 12 people.
The attacks can be expected to bolster the popularity of right-wing politicians and “those groups that have been calling for a halt in the flow of immigrants”, Stratfor said in a note issued Friday night. Islamist gunmen, armed with automatic assault rifles, attacked a city concert hall, taking the people hostage. The eighth was shot dead by police.
Three people died after in a bombing outside Stade de France, where France were playing Germany in an global friendly.
But the highly unstable explosive used – triacetone triperoxide (TATP) – suggests the devices worn on Friday were created in France, and the bombmaker would probably have sat out the carnage so he could create more for future attacks, intelligence experts said. Earlier that same day, French police closed in on the Kouachi brothers and killed them, too. By Saturday afternoon the toll was said to be over 180 but the fear was that a few of the critically injured might not live.
– March 11, 2004: Bombs on rush-hour trains kill 191 at Madrid’s Atocha station in Europe’s worst Islamic terror attack. Minutes later, police rush into the grocery and, through more gunshots and explosions, killthat gunman. “That morning, the emergency services in Paris had actually done a training exercise for a major terrorist attack”. There is visible policing in public places, greater security checks and random frisking in educational institutions. People were asked to stay indoors. The concert hall attack he termed “an abomination, a barbaric act, ‘ and swore to wage a ‘merciless” fight against terrorism. “And Paris remains and calls them shit”.
A man places a slice of bread on a plastic cup with vodka outside the French embassy in Moscow on November 14, 2015, to pay tribute to the victims of the deadly attacks in Paris. A deranged gunman motivated by the maniac jihadi Islam can always surprise them. “We were treating war wounds made by war weapons, with bullets that go in very fast, that break and burn and send a very strong shockwave so it creates extremely serious injuries”. CNN said sources reported there were six to eight attackers holding the hostages and witnesses said hostages were being killed.
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France also saw an attempted shooting on a train that was foiled by passengers during the summer. The aforementioned hashtag, #prayforparis, is being circulated along with a filter on Facebook that changes a user’s profile photo to the colors of the French flag in a symbol of solidarity. The attackers were all slain in police raids. French politicians now see clearly that these attacks are a game-changer in terms of how their nation protects itself against this terrorism: so must the rest of Europe’s political class.
