Vigipirate in “emergency attack” after Moscow: the different faces of the terrorist threat in France. The executive's decision to raise the plan to its maximum level, less than three months after lowering it to its intermediate level, is a direct consequence of the attack that occurred 2,500 km from the French borders, and which at least 139 dead in a concert hall in the suburbs of Moscow on Friday evening.
The killing perpetrated on Friday in Russia is a reminder that France remains exposed to the risk of a “planned action”, a remotely controlled terrorist act.