Is France a nation on the verge of civil war?

Three terror attacks since January 2015 have tested France’s spirit. With high gun ownership and an isolated immigrant community, the country is on tenterhooks, says Jonathan Miller

Is France a nation on the verge of civil war?

THREE huge terror attacks in 18 months would challenge the spirit of any country.

The Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre in January, 2015, was followed by the Paris attacks in November of that year, when 130 people were killed, and a third episode of carnage, in Nice, on Bastille Day, this July 14, when 84 people were killed. A week ago, on July 26, an 84-year-old priest celebrating mass was murdered, near Rouen. France is in the midst of a terrifying escalation of violence.

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