Le Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, the 60-acre public park in which the Kouachi brothers, who carried out the murderous attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, participated in an extensive jihadi network, is a short walk from where I stay when I am in Paris, and I pass by it often. And, as it happens, I left Paris after a three-week stay the day before the attack on Charlie Hebdo.
As it also happens, I was in Wallonia a couple of days before police there raided suspected terrorist cells and killed two terrorists who fired on them. If I were the type, I might start to see terrorists and terrorist plots all around me. Paranoia is almost the default setting of the human brain: a thousand conditions or situations will uncover it.
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