A look at a few previous extremist attacks in Western Europe

Friday’s carnage perhaps gave us all an insight into what it must have been like for the Jewish community in Paris, who lost four of their members in the January terror attacks just because they were in the wrong supermarket at the wrong time of day and – in the eyes of gunman Amedy Coulibaly – they were the wrong people.

The official, Gregory Goupil of the Alliance Police Nationale, whose region includes the area of the stadium, said explosions went off simultaneously near two entrances and a McDonalds. Dozens of hostages were being held at Paris Bataclan concert hall; witnesses nearby reported hearing gunshots and screams. The Charlie Hebdo attackers and the hostage-taker are killed in separate shootouts with police.

The attack comes as France has heightened security measures ahead of a major global climate conference that starts in two weeks, out of fear of violent protests and potential terrorist attacks.

Sid Ahmed Ghlam, an Algerian IT student, was arrested in Paris.

“What we learned is most shooting and killing happens in the first five or six minutes of the attack”, Miller said. The Charlie Hebdo attackers claimed links to extremists in Yemen, while the kosher market attacker claimed ties to the Islamic State group.

Described as a ‘soldier of the caliphate, ‘ Salhi sent the selfie to a French ISIS terrorist in Syira.

July 13: Four young men aged 16 to 23, including a former soldier, are arrested on charges of planning an attack on a military camp to behead an officer in the name of jihad. Jihadists on Twitter immediately praised the attack and criticized France’s military operations against Islamic State extremists.

Two off-duty U.S. servicemen and a friend prevent a bloodbath on a high-speed Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris. The suspect, Ayoub El Khazzani, opened fire in a carriage of the train, according to French officials.

But then what could possibly prepare you for eight attackers armed to the teeth with Kalashnikovs, grenades and suicide vests intent on killing as many innocent people as they could and ready to die to make sure they did.

French authorities said that their actions nearly certainly avoided a bloodbath. “Those values are going to endure far beyond any act of terrorism or any hateful vision of those that perpetuated the crimes this evening”.

Monitored by intelligence agencies for a months, he had tried to obtain material for carrying out the attack in Toulon in the southeast of the country.