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Vacation in Paris? No thanks and not in a million years!
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Vacation in Paris? No thanks and not in a million years!
After a string of attacks by Islamist killers in recent weeks, France is no closer to solving its terrorism problem than it was in 2015, when Paris endured a night of horror. No one will be surprised when the next outrage happens.
Five years ago tonight, terror stalked the streets of Paris. When it left, 130 people had been slaughtered, 350 injured, and countless others left haunted forever after having their feet soaked with the blood of the dead as they fled a team of ruthless Islamist killers.
Tonight, as it recalls those nightmarish events, the entire French nation remains in lockdown thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. But with a slew of recent killings of the most abominable kind, many people believe that home behind locked doors is the safest place to be.
It would be a relief to think that a night like November 13, 2015, could never happen again – but that would simply be naive.
Covid-19 has supposedly taken its toll among the French population, but it’s the evil ideology of the Islamist terrorists, some radicalised right under French noses, that is proving a more stubborn virus with which to contend.
The situation has not improved since 2015. In fact, it has become worse, and France remains public enemy number one for terrorists.
Not all terrorists are homegrown. The freedom of movement afforded European Union citizens, trumpeted by the EU as a cornerstone of membership of the bloc, is also proving problematic.
Porous borders within the Schengen area make it easy for terrorists to come and go as they please without detection or any sort of joined-up monitoring from the various intelligence and security forces.
The recent attack at the Notre Dame de l’Assomption basilica in Nice, in which one of the three victims was decapitated, was undertaken by Brahim Aouissaoui, a Tunisian migrant who had crossed the Mediterranean to Italy then travelled to France unaccosted by the authorities, like a carefree holidaymaker. It was all just too easy.
Which brings me back to the headline, Vacation in Paris? No thanks and not in a million years! Stay in the UK and rediscover some of the greatest places you have never seen.
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