Paris Attacks

Facts in brief:

• On the evening of November 13, 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in Paris and Saint-Denis, its northern suburb, around the Stade de France, during the soccer game France vs. Germany.
• At least 129 people were killed, 89 of them at the Bataclan theatre inside Paris. A further 352 people were injured by the attacks, including 99 people being in a serious condition.
• On 14 November, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the attacks.

We have received several emails from our loyal readers of  this web site, StorageNewsletter.com, based in Paris, to know if we were OK. Yes we are safe as well as our contributors residents in the country.

StorageNewsletter.com‘s editor and his family lives in the 18th arrondissement, North of Paris, not far from the Stade de France and at an equal distance from the Bataclan. The terrorists didn’t choose our arrondissement, probably because, in the population here, there is a mix of people originated from Africa, Asian and France, including a good proportion of Muslims.

What do do to avoid these attacks?

• On one side, you have the French government sending bombs on “surgical” airstrikes against Irak and Syria.
• On the other side, to hit back, the Islamic State group used its terrorists shooting bombs or using Kalachnikovs to kill anybody in the country (remember also the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris last January).
  

Could we let the Islamic State group invades the Middle East to avoid terrorists? That’s all the question. And there is no way today to completely avoid this kind of terrorism from people who can attack anytime anywhere.

Liberty, equality, FRATERNITY !

Thanks a lot to our readers for their support for France and ourselves.

Sincerely yours.

Jean-Jacques Maleval, Editor