Terror Threat
December 24, 2014 at 13:00
Posted by newsdesk
France is a hub of
diverse terrorist activity, just waiting for a chance to perpetrate terrorist
attacks. This, according to Israeli counterterrorism experts.
These experts cite
French authorities’ long active ignorance of clear signs of organized terrorist
efforts in several cities within France. “It is already too late to deal with
the problem. What remains to be done, is to handle the outcome,” says one
counterterrorism expert, and adds “there were demonstrations with a clear
message, but the French authorities turned a blind eye and a deaf ear towards
them.”
Major terror alert was
called in France ahead of Noël (Christmas).
Yesterday evening,
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced security forces shall be stepped
up, and added another 300 armed combat soldiers, to be deployed in shopping
centers, city centers and public transport.
The local newspapers
are also expressing the tense atmosphere. “Anxiety ahead of the Christmas
Holiday” ran one headline in Le Parisien, whereas the national newspaper Le
Figaro published an op-ed entitled “Enemies from Within”.
The wave of violence
began last Saturday, when a man shouted “Allah Akbar” as he walked into a
police station in the center of Joué lès Tours, attacked three officers with a
knife and was shot dead. Two of the police officers he stabbed suffered severe
injuries.
The following day, a
driver stormed into pedestrians making their way in Dijon, wounding 13 people
while shouting similar Islamic chants.
Two days ago, another
person ran his car into a Christmas market in Nantes, wounding 10 people. The perpetrator
then stabbed himself several times before he was arrested. One of the people he
had injured died in hospital yesterday.
The French police is
investigating a shooting at a synagogue in Paris’s 19th arrondissement.
The attacks are very
different from one another, but they are also troublingly similar. Whereas
French Prime Minister Valls already announced the three incidents are
unrelated, the persistent threat of ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks is a source
of grave concerning among the authorities.
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