Terror in Paris

Terror in Paris

Courtney Lepine, Opinion Editor

    On Friday night tragedy struck in Paris, France. It began with an explosion outside of a crowded soccer stadium, Stade de France, in which four people were killed. Minutes later it was followed by a second explosion inside the stadium. The French President Francois Hollande was inside the stadium, but was safely evacuated. Five minutes later gunmen entered two crowded restaurants where they killed fifteen people and seriously wounded ten. Less than ten minutes later five more people were killed and eight more were injured by gunmen outside a bar. Five minutes after the shooting outside the bar, gunmen fire at people outside of another restaurant and kill nineteen people. A few minutes later a suicide bomber blew himself up inside of a restaurant, but fortunately nobody was killed. One person was injured in this attack. At the same time the suicide bomber attacks, the Bataclan, a concert venue, is filled with gunfire. Eighty-nine people were killed by the gunmen, and this was the most deadly attack of the night. About ten minutes later, another suicide bomber sets off his bomb about four hundred meters from Stade de France.

ISIS, a well known terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Fifteen men have been linked to the crimes so far. Seven of these men are dead, seven have been arrested, and one is still on the run. There has been an outpouring of support for France on social media, and many countries even shined blue, white, and red lights onto their monuments to represent the French flag. Many countries of the world are standing united with France while officials around the world work to make sure this does not happen again somewhere else in the world.