Two days following the horrible massacres that left 129 people dead in the centre of Paris during the night of Friday, Nov 13, the French forces carried out bombing raids on Raqqa, the Daesh capital in Syria. Though the French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has qualified the operations as a vital blow to the militant Islamic State group, not many people, including Prime Minister Manuel Valls, seem to believe that will bring an end to the acts of fanatical terrorism in France itself. Scepticism, though somewhat subdued in view of the highly emotional atmosphere reigning in the country, was already expressed by intellectuals when President François Hollande had led a street march in Paris...
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