The mourning is not over, and the utter awe will be widely felt for a long time. It will take time to come to grips with the magnitude of the Paris events: how such terrorist attacks could happen, and how a massive groundswell of street demonstrations came in response.
This is very much a French trauma, reaching deep into the national psyche. All eyes will continue to be on France as it deals with the aftermath of an armed assault during which three young, indoctrinated French citizens massacred 17 people in the capital, targeting journalists, cartoonists, policemen and Jewish people. But this is also a European trauma and crisis.
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