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France has declared a national state of emergency and has closed its borders after at least 40 people were killed in multiple shootings in Paris.
At least 15 people were killed near the Bataclan arts centre, where up to 60 people are being held hostage. Explosions and gunfire are reported.
Three people were killed in an attack near the Stade de France, with some reports suggesting a suicide blast.
Paris authorities have urged people to stay indoors.
Military personnel are being deployed across Paris.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/13/455943961/violence-reported-in-paris
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/13/world/paris-shooting/index.html
Update #1 [BBC updates]:
Scores of people have been killed in multiple gun and bomb attacks in Paris
At least 100 people are reported to have died inside the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris
Others died in attacks near the Stade de France, where France were playing Germany, and at restaurants
France has declared a national state of emergency and has closed its borders
Paris residents have been asked to stay indoors and military personnel are being deployed across the city
[...] Reuters. quoting an un-named official at Paris City Hall, says the current death toll in Paris is around 140.
According to the Paris prosecutor, of the four assailants who died during the sidge at the Bataclan, three committed suicide by detonating explosive vests. The prosecutor has warned that some of their accomplices may "still be on the loose".
[...] Here is what French president François Hollande told reporters outside the Bataclan concert hall just now: "To all those who have seen these awful things, I want to say we are going to lead a war which will be pitiless. Because when terrorists are capable of committing such atrocities they must be certain that they are facing a determined France, a united France, a France that is together and does not let itself be moved, even if today we express infinite sorrow."
(Score: 5, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Saturday November 14 2015, @03:07AM
It's generally advisable to google first before asserting something like this. Aum Shinrikyo [wikipedia.org], native Japanese apocalyptic cult that had recruited chemical engineers and others and amassed hordes of weapons and developed chemical weapons. They aimed big, releasing sarin in the Tokyo subway, hoping to kill tens of thousands. They only managed to kill two because there's more to dispersing chemical agents than meets the eye. I was living in Japan at the time, and it was incredibly shocking to Japanese because those chemical engineers and scientists had graduated from Kyodai (Kyoto Daigaku--Kyoto University) and Todai (Tokyo Daigaku--Tokyo University), which are the Princeton and Harvard of Japan, where the elite of the elite are educated there.
But there you go, a very monocultural society, for many the definition of a monoculture, giving birth to a very nasty, highly motivated terrorist group.
Or, you could pivot to Europe if you don't find East Asia particularly compelling and talk about Germany, another extreme monoculture (at least at the time), that gave birth to die Rote Armee Faktion, which was a terrorist group that was still active when I studied in Koln in high school in 1989. All German terrorists, targeting Germans. Or take the Italians, if you don't accept Germans as a good example; the Italians had Brigate Rosse, all Italians, targeting Italians. Or you could take FARC in Columbia, or the Shining Path in Peru. There are many other examples of lesser or greater "purity" according to the monocultural filter.
Still think monoculturalism is the answer to terrorism?
Washington DC delenda est.