An Attack Waiting to Happen

33 minutes, 3 jihadist terror squads, 129 people slaughtered: France searches for solutions to thwart homegrown jihadis. Binyamin Rose reports.

An    Attack    Waiting    to    Happen

november 2015: terror in paris

Three Orthodox synagogues are situated within the immediate vicinity of the fashionable French bistro La Belle Equipe on Rue de Charonne which runs southwest to the Bastille section in the city center.

On one stretch of this street as many as 30 to 40% of the residents are shul-goers. During davening times on Shabbos Rue de Charonne is full of Jewish passersby.

All of them were safe and sound last Friday night at 9:36 p.m. includingJean-YvesCamus who had returned home to that very street earlier in the day from Stockholm.

It was exactly at 9:36 p.m. when the sixth of Friday night’s nine deadly terrorist attacks occurred at La Belle Equipe. Gunmen sprayed rifle fire from a black vehicle at diners on the bistro’s terrace killing 19 and critically wounding nine others.

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