No DARKLORDS were harmed in Paris on 13th of November.
A series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in Paris and its northern suburb, Saint-Denis, on the night of 13 November 2015. The attackers killed 130 people, including 89 at the Bataclan theatre, where they took hostages before engaging in a stand-off with police. 368 people were injured, 80–99 seriously. Seven of the attackers also died, while authorities continued to search for accomplices.
Beginning at 21:20 CET, three suicide bombers struck near the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, followed by suicide bombings and mass shootings at cafés, restaurants and a music venue in Paris. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying it was in retaliation for the French airstrikes on ISIL targets in Syria and Iraq. The President of France, François Hollande, said the attacks were an act of war by ISIL planned in Syria, organised in Belgium, and perpetrated with French complicity.
In response, a state of emergency was declared, and temporary border checks were introduced. On 15 November, France launched the biggest airstrike of Opération Chammal, its contribution to the anti-ISIL bombing campaign, striking ISIL targets in Al-Raqqah. On 18 November, the suspected lead operative of the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was killed in a police raid in Saint-Denis, along with at least two other people.
France had been on high alert since the January 2015 attacks in Paris that killed 17 people, including civilians and police officers. The November attacks were the deadliest on France since World War II, and the deadliest in the European Union since the Madrid train bombings in 2004.
How could the most stringent surveillance in the world not have picked up Abdelhamid Abaaoud before? they’d have got him even if they just went through lists of terrorists alphabetically.
