On Friday the 13th, there were seven terrorist attacks in Paris at once. Unidentified persons took hostage visitors to the Bataclan concert hall, where at that time there were 1,500 people.
In addition, several explosions sounded near the Stade de France stadium in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, where a friendly match between the French and German national teams was taking place. French President Francois Hollande, who was present at the match, was urgently evacuated. At least two out of three explosions were carried out by suicide bombers.
Also in the 10th and 11th arrondissement, gunmen opened fire on passers-by and restaurant patrons, including terrorists spreading people in the Le Petit Cambodge restaurant and near the Les Halles shopping center.
What is known about the attacks in Paris:
Data on the number of attackers on the concert hall vary. Some media outlets report one or two perpetrators, others five or six. According to one French journalist, when the hostages were taken, the attackers talked about Syria.
It is reported that the shooting in the theater building began an hour after the start of the concert of the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal.
The Bataclan Club is located near the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo magazine and in the very place where the leaders of states who arrived in Paris began their movement in January at the March of the Republic, dedicated to the victims of the terrorist attack.
US President Barack Obama expressed support for the French people in the fight against terrorism and extremism.
“This is a heartbreaking situation, and those of us who live in the US know what it is because we have been through it more than once,” Obama said.
One of the first to offer his condolences was Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who posted messages in Ukrainian and French on his Twitter.
“Deeply shocked by the tragedy in Paris. Terrorism is our common enemy. We are in solidarity with the citizens of France,” Poroshenko said.
François Hollande declared a state of emergency and closed the country's borders. Planes flying to Paris are turning back. The authorities of the capital urge local residents to stay at home or indoors.
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Emmanuel Macron should be the complete eradication of terrorism in the country. The murder of a policeman on the Champs Elysees shortly before the first round once again reminded the French that the level of terrorist threat in their country is extremely high.
The latter was committed on one of the central streets of Paris. He took responsibility for him, who had sympathy for the terrorist group "Islamic State" (banned in Russia). This was far from the first militant attack on Paris in 2017. Prior to this, the terrorists attacked the French military twice: in February near the Louvre, and then in March, at the Orly airport.
The media constantly appear reports of prevented terrorist attacks in various regions of the Fifth Republic. For example, on April 18, the local press wrote about two men who were just preparing a terrorist strike. It is not at all surprising that such reports come with such frequency: today in France, about two thousand people are somehow connected with terrorist cells in Iraq and Syria. This is official data published by the French National Office of the Interior. The real numbers could be much higher.
The situation in France is such that the secret services are simply not able to keep track of all the radicals and determine in a timely manner whether they are going to commit terrorist attacks or not. For example, a terrorist who killed a policeman on the Champs Elysees became radicalized in a very short time. He first came to the attention of the police in December 2016. Then he tried to get in touch with an IS militant and acquire weapons, but was detained. When his apartment was searched, the police did not find anything concrete there that would indicate his belonging to terrorist groups. The law enforcement officers decided not to give him the status "S", which applies to especially dangerous radicals and allows the authorities to track their movements. Meanwhile, he attacked a police car in the very center of Paris.
ISIS retreats, militants return
Paradoxically, the constant weakening of terrorists in Iraq and Syria does not mean that the risk of terrorist attacks in France is decreasing. The retreat of IS only means that hundreds of fighters with French passports will return to Europe. Since 2012, more than a thousand Frenchmen have gone to fight on the side of the terrorists. The return of some of them by no means proves that they have abandoned their attacks and repented. He came to this conclusion in his book "Returned" french journalist David Thomson.
The recruitment and propaganda of jihad is added to the terrorist threat: radicals are constantly engaged in this, for example, in the same French prisons. At the end of 2016, about 1,500 prisoners were recognized by the French prison service as "in the process of radicalization." Here, again, it is worth remembering the terrorist from the Champs Elysees: he spent a total of 14 years in prison. The first time he was sent to prison for attempting to attack the police, and four years ago he went to jail again, but now for theft.
religious justification
Many of the jihadists are former criminals who went through French prisons. Those two people who were detained in Marseille met just in a prison cell. As David Thomson writes, "Radicalism is mainly carried away by people who hate the French political system and government institutions. Prison circles help spread and reinforce this hate-based ideology.” This is exactly what happened to the terrorist from the Champs-Elysées who hated the police long before his radicalization.
How to be?
Now, Emmanuel Macron, first of all, will have to look for a solution to the problem of prisons, which not only do not force most of the prisoners to reform and take the right path, but only complicate the fight against crime and terrorism. He should use all possible means to increase the effectiveness of the secret services and prevent the recruitment of the poorest sections of the population, who, due to dissatisfaction with what society offers them today, are turning to militant religious movements. Do not forget that most of the French terrorists are from disadvantaged areas throughout the Fifth Republic, who have no education.
Even if these measures are taken, one should not expect quick improvements. To understand and destroy the problem of terrorism in the bud, the French need much more time than one presidential term of five years.
On January 7, 2015, on the day of the Nativity of Christ according to the Julian calendar, the brothers broke into the office of the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo Said and Sheriff Kouachi, they shot 12 people and injured 11 more. In addition to the killed employees of the editorial office of the magazine, police officers who tried to stop the terrorists were also injured. As a result of the operation to neutralize the terrorists, both brothers were killed on the spot. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by Al-Qaeda and ISIS (the activities of both organizations are banned in Russia).
Just 2 days later, in the same place, in Paris, supporting the Kouachi brothers Amedee Koulibaly seized a kosher grocery store located at the Vincennes Gate, during the operation to neutralize it, he was killed, as a result of this terrorist attack, 4 more people died and the extremist himself.
According to statements by radical Islamists, the attack on the editorial office of the magazine and the seizure of the Jewish store associated with this attack were caused by the publication in Charlie Hebdo of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. France responded to the terrorist attack with the bold slogan "Je suis Charlie" and stepped up its fight against the terrorist threat.
However, just 10 months later, on November 13, 2015, several mobile terrorist units attacked several points in Paris and its suburbs at once. More than 130 people were killed and up to half a thousand people.
Six militant groups of radical Islamists acted simultaneously in several districts of Paris and in Saint-Denis. It all started with explosions at the Stade de France stadium, which at that moment was hosting a France-Germany football match and was attended by French President Francois Hollande, French and German Foreign Ministers Laurent Fabius and Frank-Walter Stanmeier. The highest officials of the two states were urgently evacuated from the stadium, while the spectators, left without the protection of the state, crowded on the football field and sang the Marseillaise.
Just a few minutes later, the Petit Camboge restaurant and the Le Carillon bar, located in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, were attacked in Paris. A few minutes later, south of the rue Alibert, visitors to the pizzeria "La Casa Nostra" on the rue de la Fontaine au Rua (XI arrondissement of Paris) were attacked.
After another 5 minutes, in the same 11th arrondissement, on Sharonne Street, the terrorists were already killing visitors to the La Belle Equipe cafe. Ten minutes later, at 21:44, a suicide bomber from Syria blew himself up in the cafe "Contoire Voltaire", on the boulevard of the same name.
The final chord of a large-scale terrorist attack was the massacre of concertgoers of the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal, as a result of this most bloody terrorist attack, more than 90 people died.
The reaction of France and the international community was tough, if not cruel, in several countries of the world at once a number of buildings and sculptures were highlighted in the colors of the French flag. Francois Hollande announced full combat readiness and the closure of borders, as well as the introduction of a curfew in Paris. A march of leaders of Western countries categorically opposed to terrorism passed through the center of Paris, later it turned out that only a number of high-ranking politicians and their guards were actually present at the march. French combat formations moved towards Syria in order to join Russia and the United States in the fight against international terrorism.
A few weeks later active combat activity French aviation in Syria was almost completely curtailed, France again plunged into peaceful tolerant hibernation. As a result of the actual inaction of France and its allies in a united Europe, just 3 months later, in March 2016, in Belgium, connected with France by a common language and culture, the country's main airport and several metro stations explode. The explosion occurs, including in the infamous Malbec region, where immigrants from the Middle East have long lived. By the way, one of the cars used during the terrorist attack last November in Paris arrived in France from Belgium. As a result of the Belgian terrorist attack, about 50 people were killed, about 200 were injured.
Finally, on July 15, 2016, around 00:20 Moscow time, a crazy fanatic, on a huge truck, crashes into a crowd of passers-by on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, who gathered on the Promenade des Anglais to celebrate Bastille Day, as a result of this attack, more than 80 people died, the score deaths have not yet stopped, several hundred people are in hospitals in Nice. This attack takes place only a few days after the end of the European Football Championship, which took place throughout France. The success of this terrorist attack suggests that hundreds of thousands of fans from all over the world were saved not by enhanced security measures from the French special services, police and army, but only by a miracle.
Photo: Luca Bruno\AP\TASS
Why is France chosen as the main target of terrorist attacks and why does France, which lost almost 500 lives of its citizens during the year, continue to suffer further?
The fact is that France is one of the ideologists of the creation of the European Union and, at the same time, its weakest link. Explosions in Greece, Portugal, Spain or anywhere else in Southern Europe would not have had a significant impact on the members of the Coal and Steel Union (the progenitor of the European Union, created by Germany and France). Attacking Germany means risking the entire position of the US-loyal German political elites. An attack on the monarchical Netherlands could undermine the still strong cement of the European Union, since the monarchy as a whole is always more independent and prone to independent decisions. Thus, it is France, which is still hesitating, and even declaring the need to improve relations with Russia, has been chosen as the target for complete demoralization by the US-created ISIS and other terrorist organizations.
A country ruled by "political impotents" (only 12 percent of the population supports the president), unable to draw conclusions from a series of terrible terrorist attacks and focused solely on combating their main threat - Marine Le Pen, is an ideal target for attacking the independence of the European Union.
A frightened and powerless France is the key to the success of the Atlanticists and globalists acting in the interests of the United States and separating Europe from a single continental space. The only hope for France to defeat terrorism is a free expression of will in the elections, not suppressed by liberal propaganda, as a result of which not the faceless Eurocentrists who look into the mouths of "masters from across the ocean" should win, but those who are interested in the independence and greatness of France, then there are right-wing Eurosceptic conservatives from the National Front. Otherwise, it will be possible to simply say goodbye to the French nation.
God rest the souls of all those innocently killed in Nice!
) was attacked at the Christmas market. As a result of the shooting arranged by the attacker, three people were killed and another 13 were injured, the attacker fled the scene of the crime.
According to the country's Interior Ministry, this is a 29-year-old native of Strasbourg named Sheriff Sh. The man was supposed to be detained earlier in the day on suspicion of involvement in the attempted murder and robberies. Strasbourg Mayor Roland Ries said the attack "was of a terrorist nature". The French law enforcement agencies decided to use the anti-terrorist police in the investigation.
The TASS-DOSIER editors have prepared a report on the terrorist attacks in France since 2012, the victims of which have been more than one person. In total, there were eight such cases (excluding the state of emergency on December 11, 2018). The largest of the attacks took place in Paris on November 13, 2015.
In March 2012, in the south of France, in the cities of Toulouse and Montauban, a series of murders took place. On March 11, 15 and 19, the victims of lone terrorist Mohammed Mer (Frenchman of Algerian origin) were seven people - three military personnel, a teacher and students of a Jewish school. On March 22 of the same year, during the operation to arrest the terrorist was killed. Responsibility for the attacks was claimed by an Islamist group associated with the organization Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AKIM, banned in the Russian Federation).
On January 7, 2015, a terrorist attack was carried out in Paris against the editorial office of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which repeatedly published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. 12 employees of the magazine were shot, 11 people were injured. The terrorists - the brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi (French of Algerian origin) - were eliminated as a result of a special police operation on January 9 of the same year in the town of Dammartin-en-Goel, 50 km north of Paris. According to Sherif Kouashi, he acted on behalf of and with the financial support of the Yemeni wing of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda banned in the Russian Federation.
On January 9, 2015, four people were killed and 15 others were taken hostage in a kosher grocery store near the Porte de Vincennes in Paris. During the special operation, the terrorist was destroyed. It turned out to be Amedi Coulibaly (French, born in a family of immigrants from Mali). Shortly before the start of the assault, he told the BFM television channel that he was a member of the Islamic State terrorist organization (IS, banned in the Russian Federation). He demanded from the authorities the release of Said and Sheriff Kouachi.
On November 13, 2015, a coordinated series of terrorist attacks took place almost simultaneously in Paris and its suburb of Saint-Denis. Suicide bombers set off explosive devices near the Stade de France football arena in Saint-Denis, where at that moment there was a game between France and Germany. The match was attended by French President François Hollande. On Boulevard Sharon, Boulevard Voltaire, Fontaine-au-Roi and Aliber streets, the criminals opened fire on people. The Bataclan concert hall, where the rock band Eagles of Death Metal was performing at that moment, was attacked.
The terrorists took the visitors hostage, and after the arrival of the police special forces, they began a mass execution of people. A total of 130 people died and 352 were injured in the attacks. The terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 were the largest in terms of the number of victims in the history of France, and IS claimed responsibility for them. On November 18, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged organizer of the attacks, was killed in Saint-Denis during a police raid.
On March 18, 2016, Salah Abdeslam, a Frenchman of Moroccan origin, was detained in Brussels, who, according to investigators, played a key role in the preparation of the attacks and was in Paris on the day of the attacks. In April 2018, a Belgian court sentenced him to 20 years in prison for participating in a shootout with police during his 2016 arrest. This sentence has nothing to do with Abdeslam's involvement in the Paris attacks, for which he has yet to face trial in France.
On June 13, 2016, in the Parisian suburb of Magnanville, 25-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin Larosi Abbala attacked a 42-year-old policeman, inflicting several fatal blows on him with a knife, after which he barricaded himself in the house of the victim. There, he committed another murder, stabbing the policeman's girlfriend, who also worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and threatening to detonate an explosive device. During the ensuing assault, special forces officers eliminated the killer and rescued the three-year-old child of the dead policemen.
French government spokesman Stephane Le Fol called the incident a terrorist attack and a "terrible drama." IS claimed responsibility for the crime. On June 18, 2016, two likely accomplices of Aballa, Sharaf-Din Aberuz and Saad Rajraji, were detained and placed in custody, they were charged with links to a terrorist organization. In January 2017, the court released Rajraji, placing him under police surveillance.
July 14, 2016 in Nice during the festivities in honor of the National Day (also known as Bastille Day) on the Promenade des Anglais 19-ton truck crashed into a crowd of people who came to see the fireworks. The offender, deliberately making zigzags, sought to crush as much as possible more people. In the crowd, he managed to drive about 2 km. As a result of the attack, 86 people were killed (including Russians Victoria Savchenko and Alina Bogdanova) and more than 430 people were injured.
The truck driver, Mohamed Lahuaiej Buhlel, a Frenchman of Tunisian origin, was shot dead by the police. French President Francois Hollande in his address to the people called the incident a terrorist act. IS claimed responsibility for the attack.
On October 1, 2017, in Marseille, near Saint-Charles train station, an illegal immigrant from Tunisia, Ahmed Hanachi, fatally stabbed two women. Immediately after that, he was shot dead by soldiers patrolling the forecourt. The prosecutor's office described the attack as a "murder with terrorist overtones." IS claimed responsibility for the attack.
On March 23, 2018, in the city of Carcassonne in southern France, 26-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin, Reduan Lakdim, attacked people in a car with the aim of stealing it. The passenger was killed, the driver was injured. The second attack Lakdim made on the special forces trained near the barracks, opening fire on them. The attacker launched a third attack in the nearby town of Treb, taking hostages at a local supermarket. The offender was eliminated during the storming of the store.
In total, four people were killed in the attacks, including a special forces officer, and another 15 were injured. Media reported that IS claimed responsibility for a series of attacks. As it turned out later, back in 2014, the French secret services filed a dossier against Lakdim on suspicion of his involvement in radical Islamist circles. At the same time, it became known that during a search in his house, a note was found in which he declared his affiliation with ISIS.
