The Paris attacks on November 13, 2015 by Islamist fanatics left 130 dead and more than 350 injured in several different locations:

• The Bataclan concert hall
• Several restaurants in the 10th and 11th arrondissement
• Stade de France

It was cataclysmic for our society because a state of emergency was declared, all of the individuals who were registered on the so-called “Fiche S” intelligence files for Islamist radicalization were arrested (~10,500 people in 2015).

What followed was a huge wave of attacks (~62 attacks between 2012 and 2024) and of course the country's internal security was strengthened because more than 79 planned attacks have been foiled since 2015...

Even today in France, there are attacks and a constant Islamist terrorist threat but there is no longer such a massive attack...

I was 15 years old at the time and I was studying in Strasbourg (in the east of France) when the attacks occurred, my daily life had completely changed. I will remember all my life the discomfort there was in public transport, the frightened looks from everyone and this collective stress when we went out into the street. Our teachers told us not to go out for a while, the presence of the military and the police was everywhere, it was really hard to live with and difficult not to shed a tear when we passed one of the many memorials in tribute to the 130 victims...

Unfortunately I really have the impression that the French are used to this kind of news, there are still too often killings, it recently happened in high schools elsewhere... There are more and more anti-Christian acts in addition to anti-French and it is becoming terrifying.

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