France overtook the United States.
Become the preferred target of terrorist attacks
Recently, the EU is facing the most threatening terrorist attack since the "9. 1 1 incident", and the threat facing France is even more severe. "As the primary target of terrorist attacks, the United States can take a break, and now France is in that position." A senior French security official told the reporter of Time magazine on 20 13.
In recent years, France has been launching military operations in Mali, Libya and other African countries and regions, which has stimulated the desire of extremist organizations to seek revenge-in their view, France will be the biggest target. After France decided to take military action against the extremist organization "Islamic State", extremist organizations began to call on their followers to launch a "lone wolf attack" on their websites to show punishment.
20 14 14 On February 20th, a 20-year-old African of French descent posted a banner of "Islamic State" on the Internet, then broke into a police station in the suburb of Tours and shouted religious slogans. Then he cut a policeman's face with a knife, stabbed two other policemen, and was shot and killed before injuring the fourth policeman.
20 14 12 2 1 a 40-year-old French African in dijon, France, also shouted religious slogans and drove into pedestrians. 1 1 people were injured in the accident, two of them were seriously injured, and the suspect was arrested by the police. On the 22nd, a man drove into a Christmas market in Nantes and began to wield a knife at pedestrians. The accident caused 10 people to be injured, but investigators claimed that the incident was not related to terrorist attacks.
Song Luzheng, an expert in Qianbao think tank and a French scholar, told reporters that the local people were not surprised that the terrorist attack took place in the heart of France. In addition to France, the frequency of terrorist attacks in other European capitals is becoming more and more frequent. For example, the terrorist attacks since the 20th century, the terrorist attacks in Madrid, the London bombings and the Oslo bombings all took place in the capitals of various countries.
Take strict precautions.
Failed to stop the "lone wolf" terrorist attack.
Before the "lone wolf" series of terrorist attacks at the end of last year, there had been many sporadic terrorist attacks in France. Later, France foiled many attempts to launch terrorist attacks in France. 20 13 On June 24th, the French police arrested six suspects in the Greater Paris area. On the 25th, the police arrested three more suspects in southern France, and seized a small number of guns, knives and propaganda documents of religious extremists in the suspect's residence. At that time, French Prime Minister Vals once thought that the six suspects were "extremely dangerous" and were ready to "put into action"; In July 1 1, 2065438, the French police cracked several encrypted messages between an Algerian man and a senior member of Al-Qaida in the Maghreb, and foiled a terrorist attack on the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and the nuclear power plant.
Since September last year, the military and police have been intensively patrolling the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame de Paris and other places, often checking suspicious objects and passing vehicles. The territorial surveillance bureau has also formulated a series of secret measures to deal with the threat of terrorists. In this regard, French Prime Minister Vals declared last year1October 3 that "at that time, France had arrested 1 19 people, of whom 8 1 people were under investigation and 56 people were imprisoned", and some people, including minors, who tried to leave the country to participate in the war were stopped in time. He also claimed that several attempts to launch attacks in France were frustrated. However, it failed to stop several "lone wolf" terrorist attacks in France at the end of last year.
Expert:
Attacks affect European and American counter-terrorism policies
Pietrasanta, a member of the French National Assembly in charge of the report on the draft anti-terrorism law, once said that many French people who have participated in extremist organizations have fought or are fighting in Syria and Iraq.
In June last year, 1 1, France began to implement new anti-terrorism legislation, which will help the security department to shut down the websites of terrorist organizations and confiscate the passports and identity cards of suspicious persons. In this regard, critics believe that the most intense contradiction in France at present is the gap between a large number of immigrants from the Middle East, Arabia and North Africa living in the suburbs and the mainstream society, while the French government has done nothing on this really crucial issue.
Zhao Chu, a military commentator, believes that France, like many European countries, is a country with many immigrants from the Middle East. On international issues, apart from the Iraq war launched by George W. Bush in 2003, France has always been a very active participant in many international military operations involving the United States and its European allies, and even played a major role in wars such as Libya. If the attack really has a racial and cultural background, it means that the latest wave of vicious terrorist violence has more subtly linked the international policies of similar countries with domestic security issues. This is bound to have a major impact on the future domestic and foreign policy decisions of the countries concerned.
The greater impact of this incident is that European and American countries are bound to re-examine their anti-terrorism security systems, reflect on relevant intelligence, strength and deployment, and strengthen coordination and cooperation in this regard. This will undoubtedly affect the social and policy prospects of countries in the foreseeable future.