In the capital of France on the night of November 14, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in crowded places - near the stadium Stade de France, in the concert hall, bars and restaurants in the center of Paris. The attacks killed at least 128 people and injured more than 200. There is no information about injured Russian citizens. A state of emergency has been declared in France.

The attacks began with three explosions at the entrances to the Stade de France stadium (capacity 80 thousand people) during a friendly match match between France and Germany, whose spectator was also French President Francois Hollande. Two bombs exploded shortly before the end of the first half at 21:15 local time, and a third explosion occurred 25 minutes later. President Hollande was immediately evacuated by helicopter, and the evacuation of all spectators began at the same time. According to preliminary data, at least 40 people became victims of suicide bombers who carried out the explosions.

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Another group of terrorists targeted bars and restaurants on Charonne and Fontaine-au-Roi streets, the intersection of Bichat and Alibert streets and the Boulevard Voltaire in central Paris at around 22:00 local time, killing at least 30 people. After this, the attackers broke into the Bataclan concert hall, where the group was performing at that moment Eagles of Death Metal, which attracted one and a half thousand spectators. According to those present, shouting “This is for Syria!” The attackers began shooting first at the ceiling, then at the fleeing people. Some concert visitors did not have time to leave the building and were taken hostage.

Massacre at the Bataclan Theater

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The terrorists did not try to enter into negotiations with the authorities, but simply methodically killed the hostages, so the special forces decided to storm. During the operation, the terrorists were eliminated - three activated their suicide vests, one was shot dead by the police. According to various sources, from 80 to 112 people died in the concert hall.

The Paris prosecutor's office confirmed the death of 128 people, 99 wounded are in critical condition. French President Hollande declared a state of emergency in the country and restored border controls. The state of emergency allows you to ban the movement of individual residents and citizens, conduct searches of any person considered suspicious and take a written undertaking not to leave, temporarily close public places, and confiscate weapons owned by citizens.

In Paris, public places, official institutions, some bars and restaurants are closed on Saturday, classes in schools and higher educational institutions are canceled. An additional one and a half thousand military personnel have been mobilized to the capital.

Bloody night in Paris - more than 150 dead, over 200 wounded

French special forces on the streets in connection with the terrorist attacks

“This is horror,” the French president says in a nutshell about what happened. It all started late in the evening: first, in the north of Paris, extremists started shooting - cafe visitors came under fire. Further more. Two explosions near the Stade de France, inside which there were tens of thousands of people - the Germany-France match was taking place there. Francois Hollande himself watched the game, as did the head of the German Foreign Ministry, Frank-Walter Steinmeier. They were immediately evacuated, but the fans spent more than an hour on the football field while the police combed the area.

Meanwhile, the epicenter of the massacre moves to the 11th arrondissement: the Bataclan concert hall is captured by armed people. Eyewitnesses say: shouting “This is revenge for Syria,” the attackers begin to kill the hostages. According to some sources, ISIS militants, a terrorist organization banned in Russia, claim responsibility for the series of attacks.

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A series of bombings and attacks carried out by Islamists in Paris on November 13 killed at least 120 people.

French security services evacuate people from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris (Photo: REUTERS 2015)

Late on the evening of Friday, November 13, a series of terrorist attacks occurred in Paris, resulting in the deaths of at least 120 people. The targets of the attacks were places of mass gatherings of people: suicide bombers carried out explosions near the Stade de France stadium in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis, where at that time there was a match between the teams of France and Germany; popular cafes in the eastern part of central Paris were fired from machine guns, The Bataclan concert hall was also captured there, where up to 1.5 thousand people came to a rock concert. In total, French law enforcement officials are talking about eight coordinated attacks.

Black Friday

The first attacks occurred at approximately 21:30 Paris time (23:30 Moscow time): patrons of the Le Petit Cambodge ("Little Cambodia") and Le Carillon restaurants were shot with automatic weapons. Both establishments were located in the 11th district of Paris and were popular with local residents. According to eyewitnesses, there were few attackers, perhaps a lone terrorist was operating, but, as one of the survivors said, “the shooting continued for about half an hour.” According to the newspaper Le Monde, between 12 and 14 people became victims of this attack, and several dozen visitors were injured.

Almost simultaneously, in another part of Greater Paris - in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis - three explosions occurred near the Stade de France stadium. Those present at the stadium at the time of the attack included French President Francois Hollande, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. One of the explosions was so strong that it was heard in the stadium itself - the moment was captured on television broadcasts. The head of state and high-ranking officials were immediately taken to a safe place, and the evacuation of spectators immediately began. As a result of these explosions, in addition to the three suicide bombers, two people were killed and nine others were injured.

About half an hour later, the attacks continued in the 11th arrondissement of Paris: a lone terrorist opened fire on the Rue de Charonne. He was aiming at visitors to the La Belle Equipe cafe. At least 18 people died as a result. Witnesses told Le Monde that the shooter got out of the car, walked up to the restaurant terrace and fired several bursts. After that, he got into the car and drove away.

Less than an hour after the first attacks, at 22:22 Paris time (00:22 Moscow time), police were first informed of a shooting near the Bataclan cultural center. The scale of the attacks has already become clear to the authorities - police special forces in full equipment were sent to the concert hall. On the spot, it became clear that the terrorists had taken hostage those who came to the concert of the American rock band The Eagles of the Death Metal. A Europe 1 radio journalist who was in the hall spoke about two or three attackers: they burst into the hall without masks, armed with Kalashnikovs, and opened random fire on the crowd, panic began, people rushed to the stage, the fire on them did not stop for about half an hour.

One of the survivors told Le Figaro: . He and several others managed to escape - after waiting for a pause in the shooting (obviously, the criminals needed to reload their weapons, the eyewitness said), they managed to run to the exit. According to eyewitnesses, the terrorists shouted during the attack that they were taking revenge on France for its actions in Syria. Shortly after the first reports of the attack on the Bataclan, information appeared in the media that spectators had been taken hostage. The reports were confirmed: out of one and a half thousand who were in the concert hall that evening, over 100 people remained in the room by the time the police arrived.

The operation to free them began at 00:25 Paris time (02:25 Moscow time). One of the witnesses told France Info that the terrorists shouted “Allahu Akbar!” during the assault. They tried to throw hand grenades at the police and the remaining hostages. The operation was completed thirty minutes later - by 01:00 Paris time (03:00 Moscow time). The invaders were killed. Journalists and eyewitnesses reported numerous casualties.

By 08:00 Moscow time, the total number of deaths, according to Reuters, was at least 120 people. At least 87 of them were shot dead in the concert hall, and about 40 people were killed in different areas of Paris, officials said.

White plan

By 22:00 Paris time (midnight in Moscow), the authorities realized that they were dealing with a large-scale terrorist attack. At 23:00, an emergency meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manuel Valls began in the building of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs. The authorities' first steps were to cordon off the 10th and 11th quarters of Paris, the police ordered all citizens to leave crowded places, and the Paris mayor's office called on all citizens not to leave their homes. The five Paris metro lines passing through the cordoned off area were suspended. At 23:55 (01:55 Moscow time), President Hollande made an emergency address to the nation. He announced that in the very minutes that he was speaking on air, the capital was under terrorist attack. Hollande announced a state of emergency in the country and the closure of borders. In Paris, the “white plan” came into force - a set of measures in case of the highest level of terrorist threat: all emergency services in the capital were put on full alert, troops were deployed to the capital - by the morning the number of military police reinforcements reached 1.5 thousand military personnel.

Hollande reappeared before the public two hours later, at 2:01 (04:01 Moscow time) - together with Valls and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, he arrived at the Bataclan, which had just been liberated from terrorists. Hollande promised to continue the fight against terrorists. “We will fight. Our fight will be merciless,” he said.

By early morning, police were reporting their response. According to Police Prefect Michel Cadot, it is highly likely that all the terrorists are dead. In particular, the Bataclan who seized the center activated suicide belts. The organizers of the bombings near the Stade de France also blew themselves up. According to current information, out of a total of eight militants killed, seven blew themselves up, and one was shot dead by the police. Earlier, Fox News reported that the police managed to capture one of the terrorists alive. He stated that he belongs to the followers of the Islamic State organization banned in Russia. No terrorist group has yet officially claimed responsibility for the attacks.

World help

The scale of the attacks in Paris - they were the deadliest in Europe since the bombings on commuter trains in Madrid in 2004 - stunned the world community. British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama, among others, offered condolences and offers of assistance. The latter spoke to reporters, calling the terrorist attacks “an attack on all humanity, a threat to universal values.” Obama, like Chinese President Xi Jinping, spoke to Hollande by phone, offering help.

As after the attack on the editorial office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January of this year, the online community showed solidarity; the tag #PrayForParis (pray for Paris) and mourning images went viral on social networks: the Eiffel Tower, stylized as a peace symbol, and the symbol of France - Marianne So a tear on my cheek. The lights on the Eiffel Tower were turned off in memory of the victims. The lighting of the New York skyscraper Freedom Tower, erected on the site of the World Trade Center, has been changed to the colors of the French flag. Flowers are being brought to French embassies around the world; the first flowers and candles appeared in front of the French diplomatic mission in Moscow by four o'clock in the morning.

Along with gestures of sympathy and solidarity, messages began to appear on social networks expressing support for the attackers. It comes from supporters of the Islamic State banned in Russia. They are spreading messages on Twitter with an Arabic tag that translates to “Burn, Paris.”

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Contrary to the first reports and statements of IS supporters on social networks, this organization has not yet confirmed its involvement in the attacks. In January of this year, the attack on Charlie Hebdo was organized by Islamists, but they called themselves adherents not of IS, but of one of the al-Qaeda cells. The murder of the French journalists, experts argued, was supposed to return media attention to this jihadist organization, which competes with IS for leadership among Islamic radicals.

It is known that the Bataclan invaders spoke about Syria. France is an active participant in actions against the Islamic State in Syria, helping the anti-Assad opposition, but it began carrying out airstrikes against Islamist positions only at the end of September - a few days before Russia intervened in the Syrian conflict. The United States said Friday it is confident of killing “Jihadi John,” an Islamic State leader known for his role as executioner in public executions, in the Syrian city of Raqqa.

The director of the Cross-State Threat Project, Thomas Sanderson, told Bloomberg that France is the most obvious and accessible target for terrorists. He named IS or al-Qaeda as the most likely organizers and perpetrators of terrorist attacks. “France’s current actions in Syria and its past policies make it an obvious target,” the expert said.

The French media have so far refrained from assessing the effectiveness of the intelligence services. Analyzing the possibility of countering large-scale terrorist attacks, the French publication Le Point recalled that the police and intelligence services have been preparing for this type of attack since 2009. Law enforcement stepped up anti-terrorism training after the 2008 Mumbai hotel attack that killed 166 people. After the 2009 exercise, Le Figaro concluded that “no unity, no coherence can guarantee security.” An elevated level of terrorist threat has continued in France since the January attack on Charlie Hebdo.​​

Speaking about the operation to free the hostages, Le Point also reminded readers of two unsuccessful, in its opinion, similar cases. We are talking about Russia: the 2002 terrorist attack in the theater center on Dubrovka - then 129 hostages were killed, and the attack on Beslan, during which 350 people were killed, of which 190 were children.

Even before the end of the assault on the Bataclan, the American television channel CNBC, citing sources in the US intelligence community, reported that the terrorist attacks in Paris were “most likely coordinated.” In Washington, however, they did not take the attacks as a reason to strengthen security measures: US Department of Homeland Security officials interviewed by the TV channel said that there were no threats to the United States. However, as Reuters reports, security measures have been strengthened in New York. American Airlines later warned of delays to its flights to Paris due to the attacks, but soon confirmed that they would be carried out.

In France, a state of emergency remains in force, which means that a curfew may be introduced in the country or part of its territory, authorities are given the right to unlimited access to residential premises day and night, and any public events are prohibited. Those who oppose these security measures can be arrested for up to two months or face a fine of up to 3,750 euros. All schools, lyceums, universities will stop working on Saturday, all school trips are cancelled.

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A series of attacks took place in the Aude department in southern France, killing four people, including a police officer, and injuring 16 others.

The man attacked a motorist, took his car, opened fire on police officers returning from a jog, and then took supermarket visitors hostage.

The attacker was killed by police special forces. According to the French Ministry of Internal Affairs, he turned out to be a native of Morocco, Redouane Lakdim, who lived in Carcassonne.

In addition, 45-year-old French police lieutenant colonel Arnaud Beltram, who took the place of the last hostage released by the attacker, later died from his wounds.

Illustration copyright EPA Image caption Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltram

A case in connection with the incident was opened by the anti-terrorist unit of the French prosecutor's office.

“Our country has survived an Islamist terrorist attack,” French President Emmanuel Macron said shortly after the incident.

How was the deceased officer known?

Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltram was 44 years old. He served in the French National Gendarmerie for more than 15 years and was awarded the Cross of Military Valor for his service in Iraq.

The death of the officer became known after French Interior Minister Gerard Collon wrote about it on Twitter.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Lt. Col. Beltram "died like a hero" and showed "exceptional courage."

Illustration copyright AFP Image caption Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltram

Arnaud Beltrama's brother, Cedric, said in an interview with a radio station on Saturday that his action was "beyond the call of duty."

“He gave his life for strangers. Most likely, he knew that he had no chance. If after this he is not a hero, then I don’t know what a hero is,” said the brother of the deceased.

Flags at French police stations were flown at half-mast on Saturday as a sign of mourning.

How events developed

On Friday morning, an unknown person opened fire on a group of police officers in the city of Carcassonne. As a result, one policeman received a gunshot wound to the shoulder.

Shortly after this, information appeared about the taking of hostages at the Super U supermarket in the town of Trebes, eight kilometers from Carcassonne.

“Police are conducting an operation in the area of ​​the [supermarket] Super U in Trebe,” - reported official Twitter of local authorities.

According to security officials, the hostage crisis took place at the supermarket at about 11:15 local time, and shots were heard there.

It was reported that the hostage taker declared his allegiance to the extremist group "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia. According to eyewitnesses, the man called himself an “IS warrior.”

Illustration copyright Getty Images Image caption During the special operation, the entrance to Treb was blocked by police

Soon, the mayor of Treb, Eric Menassee, reported that the man who took the hostages was left alone in the store with a police officer - all the hostages were released.

After attempts to negotiate failed, special forces stormed the supermarket building, during which the attacker was killed.

As stated by the French Ministry of Internal Affairs, a total of three people became victims of the attacker - two died as a result of hostage-taking, another was killed before that.

The department explained that before taking hostages, the man attacked a motorist, wounding him and killing his passenger, and took his car.

Another 16 people, according to French authorities, were injured. One of them, Gendarmerie Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltram, died in hospital from his injuries.

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French Interior Minister Gerard Colon, making an official statement, named the attacker. According to the police, he turned out to be 26-year-old resident of Carcassonne Redouane Lakdim, who acted alone.

According to Colon, Lakdim was known to law enforcement as a small-time drug dealer, but was not known to be radicalized.

As reported by BFM TV, after taking hostages, Lakdim demanded the release of Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in organizing the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015.

Who is Salah Abdeslam?

Salah Abdeslam was arrested in Belgium on March 18, 2016. French prosecutors believe he played a key role in the Paris attacks.

According to investigators, he drove three suicide bombers to the Stade de France stadium and, perhaps, was supposed to carry out the attack himself in another place, but for an unknown reason did not do so.

According to the French prosecutor's office, during one of the interrogations he told investigators that he was going to blow himself up near the stadium, but at the last moment he changed his mind.

Abdeslam is also believed to have rented a VW Polo found outside the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.

Salah's brother Brahim Abdeslam was one of the suicide bombers who blew himself up in a cafe on Boulevard Voltaire in Paris.

The attacks in Paris occurred on November 13, 2015. A coordinated series of attacks near the Stade de France, several restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall left 130 people dead and more than 350 injured.

On the evening of November 13, 2015, three coordinated groups of terrorists in Paris (France) and its nearby suburb of Saint-Denis. In total, 130 people became victims of the terrorist attacks, and more than 350 were injured.

French police riot police (BRI) officers work with French police special forces RAID officers to free hostages in a concert hall. According to the prefect's statement, all the hostages, whom the terrorists tried to place around them in order to set off an explosion and kill them, managed to escape while BRI officers provided security at the site. The assault lasted three minutes.

As a result of terrorist actions in the concert hall, 89 people were killed, including the band's music manager Nick Alexander.

Also killed in the Bataclan was a Russian woman, Natalya Muravyova (Bulygina-Lauren), who was taken hostage and had two citizenships - Russia and France. She was at the concert with her husband Serge Laurent, who survived but was wounded in the arm.

In total, 130 people became victims of the terrorist attacks, and more than 350 were injured. According to the French President, representatives of 19 nationalities were killed in the terrorist attacks in Paris.

Following a series of attacks, service has been suspended on Paris metro lines that pass through the districts where the attacks took place.

According to media reports, the Islamic State terrorist group, banned in Russia, took responsibility for the series of terrorist attacks that occurred in Paris. The day after Paris, she released an undated video in which she threatened to attack France if it did not stop bombing militants.

In connection with the current situation, on the night of November 14, French President Francois Hollande announced the introduction of a state of emergency throughout the country and the return of border control. To ensure security after the terrorist attacks in Paris, French law enforcement and military forces were at the highest level.

After the terrorist attacks, the Belgian government on the border with France, at all airports and on the railway.

The French President signed a decree declaring national mourning for three days. The mayor's office of Paris on the closure of administrative departments of all metropolitan districts, as well as schools, museums, libraries, swimming pools and food markets. In addition, on November 14, it was prohibited to hold any public events. One of the main attractions of France - the Eiffel Tower - was for the public.

The figure skating competition at the Trophee Eric Bompard Grand Prix stage in Bordeaux, which was to take place on November 14, was decided after a meeting of representatives of the International Skating Union (ISU), judges and athletes. Due to the tragic events in Paris, there was a friendly match between the football teams of England and France, which was supposed to take place on November 17th.

A service was held at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris for those killed in a series of terrorist attacks that occurred in France and their loved ones.

The Paris prosecutor's office is investigating under the article "murder related to terrorism" in six incidents. The investigation made it possible to establish that a number of perpetrators and organizers of the terrorist attacks in Paris were connected with Belgium.

The Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office has officially launched an investigation into the terrorist attack after the death of its fellow citizens in Paris and is carrying out four judicial requests from the French authorities. France's requests relate in particular to a car registered and rented in Belgium that was found near the Bataclan theater where the hostages were taken.

Two perpetrators of the Paris attacks in the Brussels region. Both were French citizens and were identified by French experts.

The investigation revealed that one of the three suicide bombers who blew themselves up near the Stade de France was 20-year-old French citizen Bilal Hadfi. He lived with his family in Belgium, in one of the Dutch-language institutes in Brussels, in February 2015 he went to Syria and never returned home.

Another terrorist who blew himself up near the Stade de France stadium had a Syrian passport in the name of Ahmad Al Mohammad.

At the Bataclan theater, French citizen Samy Amimour, who in October 2012 was a defendant in the investigation into connections with other alleged terrorists, appeared. He had traveled to Syria two years earlier.

Among the suicide bombers is 29-year-old French citizen Ismael Omar Mostefai, who was identified as a result of an examination of the remains found in the Bataclan theater. He is in the French city of Chartres until about 2012. was convicted eight times for disorderly conduct, but was never sentenced to prison.

The third suicide bomber at the Bataclan was 23-year-old resident of Strasbourg, France, Foued Mohamed Aggad. At the end of 2013, he traveled to Syria with his brother and several friends.

Another terrorist, 31-year-old Ibrahim Abdeslam, "suicide vest" on the Boulevard Voltaire in Paris. He owned a bar in Brussels that was closed for drug trafficking.

The media name of another of the criminals is Abdulakbake B., but details about him were not provided.

The alleged organizer of the terrorist attacks in Paris was the Belgian Abdelhamid Aboud, who arrived in Europe as part of a group of refugees. He was present during an operation in Saint-Denis on November 18, 2015.

Ibrahim Abdeslam's brother Salah Abdeslam is considered the main suspect and was wanted by the Belgian and French police. Salah managed to leave Paris thanks to friends who came to pick him up from Brussels on the night of November 14th. Since then he has been on the run. Salah Abdeslam hid in an apartment in Brussels for about three weeks after the tragic events, from November 14 to December 4. On December 4, he hurriedly left his hideout due to police raids that were carried out in this area of ​​the city. On December 9, police officers searched the apartment, which was rented under a false name and where, according to the newspaper, the terrorist was hiding. During the search, explosives that could be used to create explosive devices, three homemade suicide belts, and Abdeslam's DNA were discovered.

In early December, Belgian authorities identified two alleged accomplices of Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the Paris terrorist attacks. The accomplices used fake Belgian ID cards in the names of Samir Bouzid and Soufian Kayal. The investigation was able to establish that the suspect Soufian Kayal is in fact Laachraoui Najim, born on May 18, 1991. Laachraoui's nationality was not disclosed. A fake ID in the name of Soufiane Kayal was used to rent a house in the Belgian town of Ovel (Namur province), which was used in preparation for the Paris terrorist attacks. Laachraoui's identity was determined from DNA samples remaining in the house.

The investigation also suspects that Laachraoui could have conducted telephone conversations with terrorists in Paris on the evening of November 13.

Abdeslama lasted four months. He and four others suspected of involvement in the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris were arrested in the Brussels emigrant commune of Molenbeek during a large-scale special operation on March 18. The police hit him in the leg, Abdeslam was taken to the hospital.

The investigation established the fact that Salah Abdeslam was wearing a suicide vest on the day of the Paris attacks.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that over 30 people are being investigated for the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in the French capital region, of which 11 are dead, 12 are in prison, others are wanted.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

On January 7, 2015, the Nativity of Christ according to the Julian calendar, brothers burst into the office of the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo Said and Cherif Kouachi, they shot 12 people and wounded 11 more. In addition to the killed employees of the magazine's editorial office, 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. Al-Qaeda and ISIS (the activities of both organizations are prohibited in Russia) claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack.

Just 2 days later, in the same place, in Paris, supporting the Kouachi brothers Amedy Coulibaly seized a kosher food 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 and the extremist himself died.

According to statements by radical Islamists, the attack on the magazine's editorial office and the related seizure of a Jewish store were caused by the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Charlie Hebdo. France responded to the terrorist attack with a bold slogan "Je suis Charlie" and an intensified fight against the terrorist threat.

However, just 10 months later, on November 13, 2015, several mobile terrorist squads attacked several points in Paris and its suburbs. As a result of this attack by terrorists in the Bataclan theater and concert hall, several cafes and restaurants in Paris near Place de la République, as well as at the Stade de France stadium, in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, more than 130 people were killed and up to half a thousand people.

Six militant groups of radical Islamists acted synchronously in several areas of Paris and in Saint-Denis. It all started with explosions at the Stade de France stadium, where at that moment the France-German football match was taking place and French President Francois Hollande, French and German Foreign Ministers Laurent Fabius and Frank-Walter Stanmeier were present. 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 “La Marseillaise”.

Just a few minutes later, the Petite Cambodia restaurant and Le Carillon bar, both located in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, were attacked in Paris. A few minutes later, to the south of Rue Alibert, visitors to the La Casa Nostra pizzeria on Rue de la Fontaine au Roi (XI arrondissement of Paris) were attacked.

Another 5 minutes later, in the same XI arrondissement, on Rue Charonne, terrorists were already killing visitors to the La Belle Equip cafe. Another 10 minutes later, at 21:44, a suicide bomber from Syria blew himself up in the Contoire Voltaire cafe, on the boulevard of the same name.

The final chord of a large-scale terrorist attack was the massacre of visitors to the concert of the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal; as a result of this bloodiest terrorist attack, more than 90 people died.

The reaction of France and the international community was harsh, if not cruel; in several countries of the world, a number of buildings and sculptures were illuminated 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, who categorically disagree with terrorism, took place in the center of Paris; it later turned out that only a number of high-ranking politicians and their security were present at the march. French military units moved towards Syria in order to join Russia and the United States in the fight against international terrorism.

A few weeks later, the active combat activities of French aviation in Syria were almost completely curtailed, and France again plunged into a peaceful, tolerant hibernation. As a result of the virtual 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 exploded. The explosion also occurs in the notorious Malbec region, where people from the Middle East have long lived. By the way, one of the cars used during the terrorist attack in Paris last November arrived in France from Belgium. As a result of the Belgian terrorist attack, about 50 people were killed and about 200 were injured.

Finally, on July 15, 2016, at about 00:20 Moscow time, a mad fanatic crashes a huge truck into a crowd of passers-by on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, who had gathered to celebrate Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais. As a result of this attack, more than 80 people died, count deaths have not yet stopped, several hundred people are in hospitals in Nice. This attack occurs 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 by the French intelligence services, police and army, but only by a miracle.

Why was France chosen as the main target of terrorist attacks and why will France, which lost almost 500 lives of its citizens during the year, continue to suffer?

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 a significant impact on the members of the Coal and Steel Union (the progenitor of the European Union, created by Germany and France). To attack Germany means to completely risk the position of the German political elites loyal to the United States. 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 making independent decisions. Thus, it is France, which is still hesitant, and even declaring the need to improve relations with Russia, that has been chosen as a target for complete demoralization by ISIS, created by the hands of the United States, 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 number of terrible terrorist attacks and focused solely on fighting their main threat, Marine Le Pen, is an ideal target for an attack on 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 the separation of Europe from a single continental space. France’s only hope for victory over terrorism is a free expression of will in elections, not suppressed by liberal propaganda, as a result of which the winners should not be faceless Eurocentrists looking into the mouths of the “masters from overseas”, but those who are interested in the independence and greatness of France, then there are right-wing conservative Euroskeptics from the National Front. Otherwise, you can simply say goodbye to the French nation.

May God rest the souls of all those innocently killed in Nice!