>>Can someone on here explain why France (and Paris) has been more of a target than anywhere else recently?
Some reasons.
-Large Muslim population, many disaffected by reception they received on leaving Algeria. -Now, much discontent in the "hot suburbs" (banlieus chaudes) of Paris, whose population was famously described by then Present Sarkozy as "rabble".
-Charlie Hebdo provocation asking for trouble.
There are longer-standing problems that predate Algeria; I witnessed a punch-up between police and some Muslims in the rue de la Huchette in 1947 although I didn't find out over what.
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