The intersection of the boulevard Voltaire and the boulevard Richard Lenoir in Paris’s 11th district still felt like a front line on Saturday morning. Plastic sheets surrounded the ground floor of the Bataclan concert hall where some 80 people were massacred overnight by jihadists armed with assault rifles, grenades and explosives belts. Forensic police continued to work inside, attempting to establish exactly what had happened, collecting the bodies of victims and assailants in the hope of establishing their identity. The most pervasive feeling among the neighbourhood’s inhabitants was one of déjà vu. Ten months ago, they saw the same ambulances, police and satellite television vans. Tens...
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