Paris Attacks: What Did A Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist Draw After Recent Terror

Terrorism today is highly contagious. “Especially given that France is a country with such liberal and democratic ideals, it was worrying”, said Kavya Iyer, 22, who is pursuing her masters in worldwide Development.

Charlie Hebdo is all too familiar with senseless violence.

France has all-out gun bans for certain types of firearms. “This latest attack is aimed at deterring military action by Europeans against ISIS”. The thwarted terrorist on the high-speed train in August had spent time in Syria.

On May 24, 2014, four people were killed at a Jewish Museum in Brussels by an assailant with a Kalashnikov automatic rifle. He was demanding the release of the Kouachi brothers before being killed.

April 19: Sid Ahmed Ghlam, an Algerian IT student, is arrested in Paris on suspicion of killing a woman who was found shot dead in the passenger seat of her vehicle, and of planning an attack on a church in the Paris suburb of Villejuif. There will certainly be a heavier presence of patrols throughout the city.

Whoever planned Friday’s attacks won’t care that no one in France is likely to excuse killing restaurant goers and spectators because their goals were to terrify, Caprioli said. It seems the gunmen in the concert hall while spraying bullets on all and sundry loudly muttered that this was what France asked for when it sent troops to quell the forces of the Islamic State in Syria. The ripples from a night of mayhem in Paris may one day be felt here. Might there be curbs on civil liberties in the name of security, and if so, what might those curbs entail?

Policing was being strengthened at ports and major events in the United Kingdom, and Prime Minister David Cameron was chairing a meeting in Downing Street of the Government’s Cobra emergency committee which could raise the official assessment of the threat from global terrorism from its current “severe” level.

The attacks took place on a Friday night. The French are admirably stubborn about their freedoms, which can be large and abstract or concrete and everyday. “I fear the worst is yet to come”.

“The #ParisIsAboutLife hashtag is one of the greatest I’ve ever seen”, one Twitter follower shared.

It may prove that the terrorists were citizens of France, residents of long standing and quite possibly born there, and drawn from that massive, disaffected class of Muslims in the banlieue of Paris and other big French cities such as Lyon and Marseille.

“When people talk of an attack like Friday’s they’ll say 129 dead”.

For centuries, those who love death have sought to make us lose our love of life..

A few other victims were unfortunate to be near the venue of a football match important enough to have French President Francois Hollande among its spectators. “We’re really in a war where they will stop at nothing”. It’s a good reminder.