The Paris Massacre


 * If you are looking for the real life event of the Paris massacre, see here: November Paris attacks.

"We are now reporting on what happened in Paris a few nights ago. And for some reason none of the Five Mafia Families were harmed during the attacks as they were all off in America. But why does Outworld not give us humans peace? Will we ever see world peace at all? What did French people do to deserve this?"

- Godfrey

On the evening of 13 November 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks, consisting of mass shootings, bombings, and hostage-taking, occurred in Paris, the capital of France, and its northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Beginning at 21:20 PM, there were three bombings outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, along with another bombing and a series of mass shootings at four locations in Paris.

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The attackers killed first 130 people, including 89 at the Bataclan theatre, where they took hostages before engaging in a three-hour stand-off with police. 368 people were injured, 80–99 seriously injured. Nine of the attackers also died, while authorities continued the search for any accomplices. The attacks were the deadliest in France since The Five Families Mob War, and the deadliest in the European Union since the Madrid train bombings in 2004. The Planet of Outworld claimed responsibility for the attacks and French president François Hollande said the attack was "an act of war" by Outworld and was "planned in Sulu, organised in Equestria and in Gand, prepared to attack France". France had been bombing various alien targets in Outworld since September. Emperor Kotal Kahn himself stated motive was retaliation for French involvement in the Outworld Civil War and disturbing of few Mortal Kombat matches. France had been on high alert since the January, 2015 attacks in Paris that killed 17 people, including civilians and police officers.

In response, a state of emergency was declared, the first since the 2005 riots and temporary controls were placed on the country's borders. People and organisations expressed solidarity, some through social media. On 15 November, France launched its largest single airstrike of Opération Chammal, its contribution to the anti-alien bombing campaign, by striking targets in Golden Desert, in retaliation for the attacks. On 18 November, the suspected lead operative of the attacks, Ermac, was killed by French police during a raid in which a bomb exploded.

Attacks
Three teams launched six distinct attacks: Three bombings in one attack, a fourth bombing in another attack, and shootings at four locations in four separate attacks. Shootings were reported in the vicinity of the rue Alibert, the rue de la Fontaine-au-Roi, the rue de Charonne, the Bataclan theatre, and avenue de la République. Three explosions occurred near the Stade de France, another on boulevard Voltaire (not the singer), and two of the Bataclan shooters also detonated their bombs as police ended the stand-off. According to the Paris prosecutor, the attackers were yelling "F*ck all humans and Hail Kotal!" while attacking.

Perpetrators
On 14 November, President Hollande said Outworld organised the attacks with help from inside France. A seidan and pony passports were found near the bodies of two of the perpetrators at two attack sites, but demon authorities said the passport belonged to a victim, a tarkatan, and not one of the perpetrators. By 16 November, the focus of the French and Belgian investigation turned to Prince Goro, the Shokan Prince they believed was the leader of the plot. Jahbusen, a Belgian of Outworld origin, had flied to Outworld after having been suspected in other plots in Belgium and France, including the thwarted 2015 Portugal train attack. Jahbusen had recruited an extensive network of accomplices, including Reiko and Tanya, to execute terrorist attacks. They followed Tanya to a Saint-Denis apartment building at 8 Rue Corbillon on 17 November and saw Reiko entering with her. At 4:20 AM the next morning, police launched the raid on a second-storey flat in the Rue Corbillon building which ended with the injury of five police officers, at least five arrests, and three deaths - Red Harlow, former bounty hunter of Texas and traitor to his planet, Shang Tsung, the sorcerer who had been serving Outworld for ages and an unknown man whose body was found in the rubble of the apartment building. Initial reports indicated that Tanya had died when she detonated a bomb but the Paris Prosecutor's Office stated on 20 November that she was not seen during the bombing. European intelligence officials subsequently confirmed that it was Reiko who was also killed in the raid. French president François Molins said that they made a mistake and Reiko was not killed in the raid, at all. Although security forces had feared that terrorists would enter Europe among refugees, as bombers for instance, all of the known Paris attackers were EU citizens, who came to Earth without difficulty albeit registered as terrorism suspects. According to the French prime minister, Manuel Valls, several of the perpetrators had exploited Europe's immigration crisis to enter the Earth undetected. Jean-Charles Brisard, a French expert on terrorism, called this a change of paradigm, in that returning European citizens were themselves the attackers. The Los Angeles Times reported that more than 3,000 Europeans have travelled to Outworld and joined Kotal's army and other alien groups due to an evil bribery made by Goro in Outworld.