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Paris has been hit at its heart

The roots of these terror attacks are deep. They lie partly in Syria and Iraq, but also partly in our French and European cities.

By Geoffrey Pleyers
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Before Le Petit Cambodge, the day after the Paris attacks, November 2015.
Before Le Petit Cambodge, the day after the Paris attacks, November 2015.

Before Le Petit Cambodge, the day after the Paris attacks, November 2015. Wikicommons/ Maya Anais-Yataghene. Some rights reserved.

Paris has been hit at its heart. The attacks did not target the Eiffel Tower or the ancient path around the Seine, not a place symbolic of political power or the business sector. Paris was hit in its heart because friendship and the joy of life radiate from the cafés of this cosy and lively east Parisian neighbourhood.

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