After a wave of terror attacks in Europe that began in 2015, FRONTLINE and ProPublica examined the missteps and systemic breakdowns that allowed known terrorists to strike Paris and Brussels. (Aired 2016)
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In January 2015, attacks on a French satirical magazine office and a Jewish supermarket in Paris left 17 people dead. That November, attacks on multiple targets in Paris killed 130 people. Four months later, suicide bombings killed 32 people in Brussels.
In the 2016 documentary “Terror in Europe,†FRONTLINE and ProPublica examined whether these attacks by terrorists linked to Al Qaeda and ISIS could have been prevented and why Europe remained vulnerable to the terrorism threat.
Years before the attacks in Europe, ProPublica senior reporter Sebastian Rotella was already reporting on some of the jihadists who would go on to commit them and the counter-terror officials trying to stop them. In unusually candid interviews, European counter-terror veterans told Rotella how the attackers had escaped detection and how European countries had failed to put in place effective intelligence sharing and border enforcement in the lead-up to the attacks.
“Terror in Europe†is a FRONTLINE Production with Mongoose Pictures in partnership with ProPublica. The producer and director is Ricardo Pollack. The correspondent is Sebastian Rotella. The senior producer is Dan Edge. The executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.
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CHAPTERS:
Prologue – 00:00
A Wave of Terror Attacks in Europe – 1:11
From Petty Criminals to Extremists Joining Al Qaeda or ISIS – 5:29
Networks of Terror in Europe – 22:43
Most Suspected Plotters of November 2015 Paris Attacks Already Known to Authorities – 36:30
Credits – 51:58
Oh! now i understand why mosto of the Brazilians look like them in appearance. Brazillians appears to Arabian people because of mixed races. and so and them Europeans compares us to them. and became suspicious and have xenophoby. i suggest a video. An european told me that i am descendent from Arabian. Because i look like Arabian woman. they think that we are terrosrists. so there is a lot of demands and burocracy to travel to there. My conscience awoke.
More countries need to follow Denmark’s immigration policies.
Mossad , cia and mi6 have been behind all these terrorist events for decades
Now they just become part of your state and illegally immigrate to your country and slowly implement shariah law and buy politicians and claim racism. Raping young girls and grooming
Think about it now same thing is happened here in the us not just Muslims
Allah Hu Akbar ☪ï¸ðŸ¤²
America will be Muslims country Inshallah 🤲
Whats comical, is they keep showing spain, with a giant sign that says " refugees welcome " you cant make this stuff up. Left wing politics kills innocent lives. Deport Islam from Europe or else you will suffer the consequences
Send all terrorists to guantanamo bay.
The Europeans are a mess. Such a shame. This provides a precise example of how stupid we were for allowing 10s of millions of illegal aliens into our country from 2021-2024.
So once again a country’s intelligence knew who would attack,let them come in and out of the country whenever they wanted,and nobody knew anything til after hundreds died(9/11)….yea sure these same intelligence agencies are bs they’re just crooks with badges😒
Why is it always that something bad must happen before taking Action ?
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ICE Agents are time bombs racist minded anyone connected to Trumps MAGA is a time bomb WE THE PEOPLE sit back and watch.
Imagine there is no border – John Lenon !!!!!!
European 🇪🇺 intelligence are bunch of Imbecile clown incompetence weak.. and the justice system in France is shit. What a weak system.. this shouldn't never happened. 😢 people blood is on those Imbecile clown 🤡 what a joke
You are not 100% democracy, the more EU think they are 100% the more it will collapse faster and a cesspool for terrorist
Yea fck the privacy bullshit excuse, when terrorist can just walk in and walk out potentially harming thousands, F your privacy, if you are not happy with that go live on a tropical island
Are you enriched enough?
Behind every cruel person is a soul once controlled by fear.
They were taught to destroy what’s peaceful because peace feels like a threat to them.
Fear made them cold.
Pain made them dangerous.
Even if I hear allah hu akbar on my mobile phone I just duck down on reflex and expect a blast….. europe is new to this My country has been dealing with the islamic scourge for 900 years…..May god rid my country of every last one on them…..and yes I am a islamophobe…..my country is also a third world country we too have been a colony of not so great Britain and suffered at their hands our freedom fighters were even killed by them but my religion never turned extremist we don't blow ourselves up in the name of god even if we have suffered at the hands of europeans and these muslims alike….they even took half of our country when we gained independence and made their pakistan and all the world knows what pakistan is today….
I think every non islamic country needs a Dick cheney to lead them….or a Yogi Adityanath to fight these muslims…..I won't call them radicalised muslims because there isn't any other kind of muslim
While Islamaphobia laws are being implemented… Funny how Chrsitophobia laws aren't implemented.. why is that? How atheist phobia laws aren't implemented? Why is that?
While it becomes easier and easier to criminalize people, while the very things that can help keep countries naturally safe are being striping away, while more Americans are disarmed and we aren't supposed to be angry?
We aren't supposed to feel like it's a set up. We aren't supposed to speak up for Jews and Christians or even atheists.. otherwise you are just a hateful bigot, you are racist and crazy. 😡🤬
While there are decent people who you call criminal who would be more than happy to help keep their perspective countries safe..
America and Europe better wake up.
How many people are in jihad mode in a silent way? I mean there are ways to commit terror without guns, how about a friggin scalpel?
And we aren't supposed to be angry. We aren't supposed to say anything. 😢 For what, so people can force the end of days?! We aren't supposed to be suspicious at all of our governments, and others involved.. but they are suspicious of us for not wanting all of this crap.
What happens if nothing but death and destruction happens and no return of the Messiah? Will it have been worth it?
( I do happen to believe in God, just not in a God that tells me to harm people who don't believe in God)
It never ends. I'm so angry over all of this crap.
Stop disarming Americans, arm the Europeans otherwise I have no choice to but to believe this is been a set up.
To destroy the west and get everyone to be forced into religious rule. To force the one world 1984 totalitarian, rule.
It's amazing how all of this works or doesn't work I should say.
People are tired and angry and you have the balls to ask why or get mad and criminalize people for it. 😡🤬
The minute a terrorist is ID'd for sure the death pen should be used ASAP. For those of you who say no maybe he can be cured . I say the minute he is dead he is cured and for sure will no be able to kill an innocent human being.
Europe's globalist politicians did this to their own people, who had no voice in who was brought into their countries. Simple fact. Same thing happened in the USA under "Biden's" administration, with no fight back from our "republican" politicians. Unfortunately, the situation is not fixable. A culturally diverse population, such as this, is not "our strength".
Europe hates Jews and accepts Muslims without any background checks smh and wonder why they keep happening 😂
That what happen with 9/11 with fbi & cia if they was communication more they could have stop it but they was competing with each others
That that’s why people supporting Palestine
لايدعم الترجمة للغة العربية
Islam has become a religion that will accept any criminal, serial killer, phycopath, rapist or mentally ill college student, with no rules or parameters placed on them. You can do anything you want to do and still go to paradise when you die as long as you help them kill non-muslims. There are unfortunately a lot of mentally ill people who will go for that.
If Europe does not have the means to monitor these radicals inside their borders, how are they letting all these refugees become citizens? Mind blowing! They F Upped royally.
It might be of some interest to a few people who have a concern about Islamic terrorism that that a book with title of JIHAD IN THE WEST published in the year 1998 authored by Paul Fregosi ,was a man who was thinking ,a bit ahead of his time ,as in before 9/11 and then many Islamic horrors of jihad terrorism that hit London, Manchester, Madrid Paris as well as other Western nations of Europe .For above mentioned book of page 411 reads “Most worrying , both Islam and the West see each other as potential enemies of tomorrow .The future is a source of concern , not of optimism.â€
For this year of 2025 is the “future†as seen from the time-frame of the year 1998 when that book was published. As the author thus had a valid point in what he wrote in the above quote .
Moreover the threats of the jihadists towards the people of the nations of West .This has been further explained and revealed by in the book , by Robert Spencer ,THE HISTORY OF THE JIHAD FROM MUHAMMAD TO ISIS .Which in page 367 informs the reader that “The early twenty- first century saw a sharp rise in jihad massacres perpetrated all over the West by individuals or small groups of Muslims: in London, Manchester, Paris, Toulouse, Nice ,Amsterdam, Madrid, Brussels, Berlin Munich ,Copenhagen…â€
Those jihadists /Muslims with their insidious jihad-minded Muslims scheming for the subtle and not so subtle, Islamic conquest of Europe by every possible means, including the stealth and violent jihad which is, indeed, awful.
As explained by William Wagner in his book HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD .Which informs the reader n page 195 “Of all the continents of the world, Europe is probably the number one target by Muslim strategist who are seeking world dominance.â€
Therefore, all Europeans and other Westerners would be wise to be on guard.
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TALK!TAL!TALK! THEY LAUGH ABOUT US!NO ENTRY FOR MUSLIMS! THEY GOT A LOT ISLAM ALLAH CONTRIES!
You muslim? Send them to irak, iran, no entry in germany, uk, us, america, asian. So simple is that. You feel unfair treated? Go talk to your iman, or swear on the Bible. Just easy!
In recent years, Europe has been welcoming the very people that terrorized the same places. Europe never learned from the past.
Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims!!!
1 word…Islam.
The left is killing europe and it's people 🤬😡🤬
The fact is European leaders don't care about European people!! Only European citizens can save Europe….stop voting for this leaders leaders 😡🤬
The dude at 9:41 has some seriously weird Tom Cruise energy.
22:16 WHAT THE FUCK
Why can’t I share this?
2025 and most of Europe is still lettn them in…sad
15 years in an American prison unless you're a Democrat politician. Then you can use taxpayers' money to fly to another country , have drinks with them, demand they be released, and allowed back in the US. Somehow thats only a crime for the people who pay their salaries.
Europe needs more diversity ðŸ™ðŸ™ðŸ™