Within a shockingly tight timeframe, over 120 people were murdered and more than 350 wounded in six locations in and around Paris.
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Crystal Palace defender Martin Kelly was said to have been in the restaurant where the shooting took place.
Sadly, two of my French friends were not as lucky. He had said that his service had thwarted 6 United Kingdom terror attacks in the past year and several overseas. It was no accident that these victims were young. “We stand prepared and ready to provide whatever assistance that the government and the people of France need to respond”.
The carnage began at 9:20 pm of the French Standard Time, and ended up at 12:20 pm, the incidents at 6 different places perfectly timed that took the security establishment aback and the remarkable show of responsibility by the Parisians, who aided the authorities in evacuating people, panic management and blood donation brought out the message clearly to the people who tend to create chaos everywhere, France, because they still want to revenge drawings of the Prophet and the attacks on the ISIL by the French forces, a curfew has been imposed by the authorities by telling people not to pursue economic activities and remain indoors unless strictly required, with and observance of three days of Mourning for the departed souls.
To those who have pointed out that society ignores the deaths of people of color when tragedies in predominantly white and Western arenas happen, please keep fighting the good fight.
Doubts were also raised about the release of three other French films which touch on the sensitive subject of terror and jihadist brides. As for those who have changed their profile pictures to the bleu-blanc-rouge, thank you for showing your solidarity with the French people.
I would most likely not be addressing these issues at all if it weren’t for the hyper-awareness of the Wesleyan community.
If Isis is shown to be behind the Paris attacks, there will be dramatic consequences for security in Europe and further afield. The attacks were carried out by “a terrorist army”, French President Francois Hollande said in an address to the nation. For those unfamiliar with French politics, the FN is like our Tea Party on steroids.
He said: “France must be strong in the face of terrorism”.
There are two immediate worries for France, one economic and one political. There has been a rapid increase in hotel and restaurant cancelations all over France already.
After January 7, 2015, this “dark year” continues with another attack in the heart of the city of love. “Charlie Hebdo was wrong in mocking Islam and they’re wrong now”, Graham said. The attacks by the Stadium of France during the soccer game, one thinks that they were attacking the president of the republic. Their national anthem, “La Marseillaise”, is a response to such terrorism.
James Johnson, a CAS professor of history, says French freedoms, and the poor living conditions of French Muslims, have made the country a terrorist target. We do not yet know the attackers’ names, or if they had link to radical groups, but there are reports of witnesses describing hearing shouts of “God is great” in Arabic before the gunfire, and the Al-Hayat Media Center, the official publication of the Islamic State has claimed the Paris attacks and described them as a “miracle”.
If the latest attacks were intended as retaliation against these actions, that means the world is once again facing a global chain of violence that transcends national and regional borders.
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Ganor said the Paris attacks were probably linked to last month’s apparent bombing of a Russian plane in Sinai that killed 224, and last week’s bomb that killed at least 44 in a Shia neighborhood in Beirut.
