Paris attack came after months of unprecedented threat
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/22/world/europe/france-terror-attack-threat/index.html
Paris attack came after months of unprecedented threat
Paul Cruickshank, CNN
Updated 9:36 PM ET, Wed January 7, 2015
(CNN)The most deadly Islamist terrorist attack ever in France followed weeks of warnings from French officials that the threat had risen to unprecedented levels.
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Officials tell CNN the threat of terrorist attack in the European Union is greater than at any time since 9/11 because of the emergence of jihadist safe havens in Syria and Iraq. But no country faces a greater terrorist threat than France, with support for ISIS running deep among disenfranchised immigrant communities in the rundown, crime-ridden banlieues that surround many French cities.
The numbers tell the story: 390 French extremists are now fighting with jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, according to French officials, with 231 believed to be on their way. Fifty-one have been killed in suicide bombings and combat. And 234 have left the conflict zone, with 185 now back in France.
Since the summer of 2013, French police say they have thwarted five terror plots..............................
A few days after posting an ISIS flag on his Facebook page, Bertrand Nzohabonayo, a French-Burundian extremist, entered a police station in the central French town of Tours on Dec. 20 and stabbed several officers before being shot dead....................
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