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Migrant crisis – Paris attack to turn things for worse

The Le Petit Cambodge restaurant with a makeshift memorial of flowers, the day after the attacks. (Maya-Anaïs Yataghène/Flickr)

Last Friday, Islamist militants launched well-coordinated attack in Paris, simultaneously at seven different places with automatic assault rifle and bombs, ending up killing about 130 people and hundreds more injured. In response, French president Francois Hollande, announced state of emergency leading to closure of public places like schools, colleges, restaurants and closed French border so that none can escape or enter, without check. France hadn't face such a state of emergency in more than half a century, so hasn't Europe.

These attacks came at a time, when thousands of migrants are seeking refuge in Europe, fleeing for war and poverty in Syria, Africa, and Afghanistan. While some like Hungarian president Victor Orban, Slovakian Prime Minister Roberto Fico had taken hard stance against migrants and providing refugee, other like German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pursuing more of an open door policy.

One of the attacker was carrying a Syrian passport, which showed that the person entered through Greece along with the migrants, which makes things more worrying, like some political analysts, leaders have been arguing sighting the possibility of such, Islamic state militants slipping into Europe, along with needful migrants.

These attacks will turn things worse for almost every parties - Needful migrants (most of whom are Muslims) may face strong repulsion from European people, sympathetic leaders like Ms. Merkel likely to face tough criticism of her stance and war in Syria likely to intensify.

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