2015-11 Paris attacks

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Event.png Mass murder in Paris (Deep event) Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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Locations of the attacks
Date21:16, 13 November 2015 - 00:58, 14 November 2015
LocationSaint-Denis,  Paris,  France
Blamed onAbdelhamid Abaaoud
Type• Mass shooting
• bombing
• hostage-taking
• suicide attack
Deaths139
Injured (non-fatal)352

Mass murder in Paris was perpetrated on Friday 13 November 2015, when a series of coordinated terrorist attacks — consisting of mass shootings, suicide bombings, and hostage-taking — occurred in the French capital and in Saint-Denis, one of its northern suburbs.[1] 139 people were reported killed in the deadliest event in the European Union since the Madrid train bombings in 2004.

Official narrative

Beginning at 21:16 hours (CET), there were six mass shootings in central Paris and three separate suicide bombings outside the Stade de France football stadium, where France were playing Germany.[2] The deadliest attack was at the Bataclan theatre, where attackers took hostages and engaged in a stand-off with police which ended at 00:58 hours on Saturday 14 November 2015.[3]

Victims

139 people were killed, of whom:

  • 129 immediate victims:
    • Bataclan theatre: 89[4][5]
    • Le Carillon and Le Petit Cambodge: 11
    • La Casa Nostra: 5
    • Stade de France: 6
    • La Belle Équipe: 18
  • 3 subsequent deaths
  • 7 perpetrators[6] ,[7][8]

A further 415 were admitted to hospital with injuries sustained in the attacks, including 80 who were seriously injured.[9] In addition to the victims, seven attackers died, and the authorities continued to search for any accomplices remaining at large. The attacks were the deadliest in France since the Second World War,[10][11].

Perpetrators (Official Narrative)

The commercially-controlled media cited "official sources" to relay the message that the so called "Islamic State" had used an unspecified website to claim responsibility for the attacks.[12][13][14] On 16 November 2015, corporate media named Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 27 year old Belgian of Moroccan origin, as the "mastermind" behind the attacks.[15] Five of the jihadis who died in the attacks have been identified, and a manhunt has been launched for Salah Abdeslam, a municipal employee in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, who is believed to have rented a car in Belgium used in the Paris attacks.[16]

Motive

Corporate media have promoted the official motive of "blowback". The Financial Times called the bombers "Islamic extremists" who objected to Paris as a capital of "abomination and perversion"[17], while the New York Times speculated that it was retaliation against the foreign policy of François Hollande in relation to Muslims worldwide.[18] ISIS reportedly mentioned the French airstrikes on Syria in their claim of responsibility for the attacks in Paris.[19] The Daily Mail reported Western "Security experts" as claiming that the attacks may have been a response to the reported murder by drone of Jihadi John. However the planning, coordination and weapons/explosives distribution logistics of the attacks demonstrate that the gestation period of the attacks had to have been much more than 24 hours.[20]

Responses

The European Commission announced on 18th November a package of measures that "strengthens control of firearms across the EU".[21]

France

French President François Hollande immediately declared the attacks an "Act of War" and announced the first state of emergency since the 2005 French riots,[22] and placed temporary controls on the country's borders.[23] People and organisations expressed solidarity including through social media. President Hollande declared the attacks an "act of war",[24][25][26] and on 15 November 2015 launched France's largest single airstrike of Opération Chammal, its contribution to the anti-ISIS bombing campaign, by striking numerous targets in Al-Raqqah, Syria in retaliation.[27]

Media comment

On 15 November 2015, writer and broadcaster Iain Macwhirter wrote an article which concluded "The one thing the terrorists want is for governments to launch another War on Terror, just as America did after 9/11. So let’s hear no more of it. The weapon Islamic extremists fear most is tolerance".[28] Interviewed for Russia Today by Afshin Rattansi, former MI5 agent Annie Machon, now director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), highlighted how the intelligence agencies were drowning in the torrent of information derived from universal surveillance instead of targeting suspects through HUMINT following the mass murder in Paris.[29]

Background

Since 19 September 2014, France's military has been involved in Operation Chammal - airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. In October 2015, France struck targets in Syria for the first time.[30]

France had been on high alert for terrorism since the Charlie Hebdo events and the Île-de-France attacks. France had also increased security in anticipation of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, scheduled to be held in Paris from 30 November to 11 December 2015, and had restored border checks a week before the attacks.

Two Jewish brothers, Pascal and Joël Laloux,[31][32] owned the Bataclan theatre for more than 40 years until they sold it in September 2015.[33] The venue had been threatened several times because of their public support of Israel. In 2011, a group calling itself "Army of Islam" threatened the theatre because of this support.[34][35][36]

Patrick Pelloux, a "specialist of emergency medical services" whom reports connect at least incidentally to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, stated that a "multi-site attack exercise" had been planned for November 13th, 2015.[37]

Recent mass murders

The Islamic State reportedly claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks which took place in the weeks leading up to the mass murder in Paris. On 12 November 2015, twin suicide bombings took place in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 43 people. On 31 October 2015, Metrojet Flight 9268, carrying mostly Russian passengers crashed in Egypt, killing 224 people, for which IS's Sinai Province reportedly claimed responsibility.[citation needed]

Other Motives

Alternative media commentators have observed that the attacks were quickly seized upon by governments as a pretext for increased expenditure on the "war on terror". Craig Murray blogged that "this kind of sickening political opportunism is the true disrespect to the innocent dead." The attacks came a fortnight before a mass demonstration in Paris, planned to take place ahead of the 2015 UN Conference on Climate Change, was banned under the state of emergency.[38]

See also

 

The Official Culprit

NameDescription
Abdelhamid AbaaoudThe official "mastermind" behind the mass murder in Paris - died conveniently in police shootout.
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References

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