'We were expecting something. We knew it was coming,” a Western diplomat told BuzzFeed News.
PARIS — As Parisians woke up to surreally empty streets on Saturday, they confronted an uneasy question — how could France’s security services have failed to prevent the previous evening’s terrorist attack, the worst in Europe for a decade, just months after allowing another?, in which at least eight assailants launched near-simultaneous assaults in six different locations across Paris, killing over 120 people, has raised questions about whether French counterterrorism units received any...
At the Place de la République, a few minutes from Bataclan, where at least 100 people were killed on Friday, Parisians gathered to leave candles and flowers at a makeshift memorial. A banner hung reading"J'ETRE HUMAIN," an ungrammatical pun on the"Je suis Charlie" rallying cry from the January killings. Graffiti artists painted the city's Latin motto,"Fluctuat nec mergitur":"Tossed, but not sunk.
Alain Charret, an expert on France’s surveillance system, said it was hard for the military to be everywhere and for intelligence to predict everything, “but the reason why it is usually difficult to track people is because one or two people on their own are involved — here, it seems like it was a big group of organized people, so it should have been tracked more easily.”
But a former senior intelligence officer very familiar with France said he and a lot of French intelligence officials think that after two internal services — the Central Directorate of General Intelligence and the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance — were merged, it created a larger, but far weaker, General Directorate for Internal Security.
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