November 2015 Paris Attacks

In the wake of the Syrian Civil War, jihadist groups like ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) formed and decided to inflict the attacks that they were experiencing at home elsewhere. At lot of these attacks happened once ISIS started losing ground in the Middle East and that meant that the European based fighters of ISIS were now bringing their battle hardened skills with them home. These fighters launched those attacks we had in the mid 2010s as a way to say “How would you like it if what’s happening in the Middle East was outside your doorstep?”.
That’s what happened in Paris, France on 13 November 2015, starting at 9:16PM CET and concluding at 12:58AM CET.

That was when ten jihadists who had previously pledged their allegiance to the Islamic State Armed group killed one person near the Stade de France football stadium, 89 people who were attending a concert at the Bataclan Theatre as well as 30 people at the theatre’s surrounding restaurants and cafés. People were also held hostage at the Bataclan theatre for almost 3 hours.
The attacks came 10 months after the shootings at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo which was the violent objection to depictions of the Prophet Muhammad that some had found offensive. Nine of the perpetrators of the attacks that happened on 13 November 2015 killed themselves with suicide bombs or were shot by French police except for one, Salah Abdeslam who was trialled for nine months before being given a life sentence.

And of course, talking about these attacks wouldn’t be complete without mentioning the “Stand With Paris” solidarity posts that flooded social media. Even a Polandball comic was made featuring 8 countries with predominantly blue coloured flags, 6 countries with predominantly white coloured flags and 8 countries with predominantly red coloured flags standing in a car park within view of Franceball’s hospital room to show their solidarity to the character/nation.