Paris solidarity vigil, Birmingham. Demotix/Michael Scott. All rights reserved.
3:08am, Nov 14
France has suffered a terrorist attack whose brutality and barbarism mirrors the brutality and barbarism of the Islamic State. Closed borders, a state of emergency, soldiers on the streets—these are things France has not seen in its postwar history. There was no such attack even during the war in Algeria.
As I write these words, the terrorist attack in Paris is still ongoing. In a few hours, most of the question marks will most likely disappear.
