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Tonight's events are pretty horrific really the death toll keeps rising.

For anyone that has managed to miss the events a Link HERE in French.

BritInParis

All happening in my old neighbourhood. Too depressing for words.

babyposer

So sad, I have no words.

Borders are closed for now, and tomorrow schools and uni will be closed too.

NiHao

So awful.

Pulaski

Awful, but not surprising. Nothing will be done, and it will happen again.

amideislas

Is anyone beginning to truly understand who we're dealing with here? This isn't just some extreme religious group. This is a diabolically clever clan of pathological killers hell-bent on destruction - of everything, not just western interests.

Saddening. Truly. But in the face of such very real threats, perhaps Europe's pacifist, capitulative mindset may begin to change. Or at the very least, become less critical of anyone else standing up to this scourge.

dmu

Like for Charlie Hebdo, I'm too gutted to comment, except to say it wasn't just Paris targeted physically, but the whole of France psychologically, including us in La France Profonde.

petitefrancaise

Thinking of you all. I am shocked and very, very saddened.

ElinorD

I heard about the news yesterday as I decided to go to bed. Then I couldn't go. I stayed awake until 1:00 AM, trying to figure out what was happening...I live in the East suburbs of Paris and I was, I'm still horrified and at a loss for words...

Tweedpipe

A sad, miserable day indeed all over France from major cities, to the smallest hamlets. If anything good can possibly come out of this, I foresee that it can only be for the French political parties to reunite in force and together with international allies, come up with a determined plan to fight and defeat terrorism. There can be no other way.
I hear already that many US flights to France have been cancelled until further notice.

EMR

Je Suis Charley et je suis un Parisien ( apologies for my schoolboy french ).

grannybunz

I heard when my husband woke me up at 2.00am having been up since he heard the news late last night.

I was very emotional because only a few weeks ago we were there celebrating our golden wedding and were eating and drinking in similar places.

Curiously enough when we got to our market as usual, early in the morning, the news did not seem to have reached many people. I guess it is because market traders get up early and go to bed early. Also Paris seems to be almost a foreign country in these parts.

Paris and indeed France will never seem quite the same because inevitably intrusive surveillance measures will have to be introduced.

I am not surprised but I am very very sad, and angry.

Dick Dasterdly

A shocking heartbreaking tragedy.
I entirely agree with you about the European mindset. Unfortunately I think there will be more of the same and not only in France.
Sadly European complacency and mindset has left it in an extremely vulnerable situation which has got to the stage that will now be nighhand impossible to turn around.

aries

I am in tears thinking of so many innocent people being killed and maimed, the fear they went through, and the long lasting distress of family members and friends who survived.

I don't understand why Islamic terrorists have so much hatred to want to do these things, how can they allow themselves to be indoctrinated to be so uncaring about life?

InVinoVeritas

One of the really worrying things about this is that one of the terrorists killed was carrying a Syrian passport and passed through the Greek island of Leros last month.