France in the crosshairs of Radical Islamism and Jihadism

Unlike the case of Spain or the United Kingdom, who in their early days were mainly attacked by national terrorism, in the case of France there is talk of transnational terrorism derived from French influence and interference in African and Arab territories. As a starting point, one can take the war in Algeria, a former French colony, during the years 1954 to 1964, which resulted in more than 13,500 attacks on French territory with more than 4,000 dead and 9,000 wounded. Anticipating terrorism from the Middle East between 1984 and 1993, the result of the link between the war in…