Amid all the unrest, looting and rioting in France, the situation got significantly worse on Friday, when a gunman opened fire at random in the Paris suburbs, murdering one person and injuring five others. While random acts of violence are a hallmark of modern-day jihad activity in Europe, and France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has said that this was “clearly a terrorist crime,” this time, jihadis don’t seem to have been involved.
The New York Times reported Friday “the French authorities did not identify the shooter, who was quickly arrested, and it was not immediately clear what had motivated him. But France’s antiterrorism prosecutor’s office said in a statement that it had opened an investigation on suspicion that the shooting was carried out with a
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