So far the perpetrators haven't been caught, they've been spotted in various places and were supposedly cornered in a house somewhere out in the countryside near Paris, but apparently that was hasty reporter talk. Tell you the truth, I find it infinitely NOT reassuring that our domestic security were not able to intercept these two guys, however heavily armed and determined... They managed to drive across half Paris and vanish into nature without so much as an attempt to gun the vehicle (a standard engine Renault Clio, no less!) It's even more disturbing to know that they had a thick police record on them already and had shortly returned from Syria. Probably some armchair criticism from me, and I'm fully aware that counter-terrorist intelligence is a complex task, but still, it's been said over and over again for months that Djihad returners were a serious threats on French soil, and lo and behold it happens and the State's powerlessness to prevent AND to retaliate swiftly is exposed. The sad obviousness of it is overwhelming... Makes you wonder what will happen when some better organized commandos will take action in a mall or in the metro, and it's clear they will. Dark times indeed.
