viewers around the world. terrorist attacked six locations in paris. isis is being blamed for the attack t. french president is calling what happened in the french capital quote an act of war. let s bring in a manager of a global firm to get a look at what can have many fears that french citizens might travel abroad, become radicalized with weapons training in iraq or syria and come back here. do you think that s the first avenue for investigators to look into at this stage? actually, there are a couple. what s been very interesting is in the past few weeks, french investigator said the charlie hebdo attack, the supermarket store, where remotely controlled
been a shooting. we were running out sort of screaming, crying, and people in all the neighboring cafes and clubs and bars didn t have any idea. but it wasn t surprising to me when i heard later reports that it was a coordinated attack, because for me, personally, the feeling i had was exactly the feeling i had during the charlie hebdo attacks. the feeling of it was something larger, more sinister. as a journalist, certainly, you ve covered these sorts of things but to witness it for yourself, how are you processing it emotionally what you ve been through? it s funny you ask that, because i don t, i m not sure i am processing it emotionally. it s just very matter of fact to me. and i think that s normal. i think that s exactly the way my friend who was with me felt. it was like it wasn t real, like it wasn t happening. it s the kind of thing you see in films or the kind of thing i
you know, we ve seen the video now, and i guess your previous speaker, the people singing the french anthem at the soccer stadium. it wasn t as coherent as that on the parts of the streets that i was on. but it was more, to me, more sort of the confusion of grief that respond to these events. jeff charlotte, i m glad you re safe and thank you for giving us a little bit of your time this evening. thanks. all right, here with me now is susan cork of anti-semitism and extremism with human rights first working on this france report and you heard jeff charlotte saying that he saw several skin heads on the streets bouncing up and down. if there was one thing unmasked by the charlie hebdo attack, it was all of these very profound and intense tensions
straining underneath french society. what did you learn when you were there doing this report? we ve been monitoring trends with concern over at least the past year. there s a toxic mix that s been happening that has the largest population of jews in europe, the largest population of musl m musli muslims. you have far right party in the national front that now has the 25% of the population supporting it, and it has risen through to its rhetoric of fear of the other and directing hatred towards minorities, muslims, jews. so we ve been worried about trends in france, and particularly, after the charlie hebdo attacks, i can t believe there s a tragic attack again. what has been and i think
we ll get back throughout this day. joining me now, cnn law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes and military analyst rick francona. tom, let s talk first about the poishl criminal element. what is the first thing investigators will do looking at here in terms of the background of those who committed these attacks to get them to the source of who ordered this carnage? reporter: well, they have all kind of vel cells in europe, particularly in france, for decades as a matter of fact. the wake of 9/11, there were al qaeda cells in several countries that were going to commit attacks, they were thwarted by arrests, including an attempt to proceed up the united states embassy in paris. so these cells, many of them were convicted, members of those cells. they got minimal sentence, they re back out on the street. in fact, one of the individuals coordinating that attack on the embassy helped in the charlie