Paris Attacks

The Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels resents the terror label it’s been stuck with since the Paris attacks. But some hope their neighbors will do more to thwart the next attack.

The Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels is just across a canal from the city center but a world apart. A number of terrorism suspects have ties to the place, including several associated with the atrocities in Paris. Today, the community held a peace vigil to tell the world that not everyone there is a terrorist. To the contrary.

Paris is a city still on edge. People aren’t sure what comes next. Wednesday morning — before Parisians had even woken up — a new disturbing chapter to this story: Police raided an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis looking for the suspected mastermind behind Friday’s attacks. After a seven-hour standoff, two of the apartment’s occupants were dead. One of them a woman who blew herself up. Seven people were arrested during the operation. But in the end the fate of the alleged mastermind remains unknown.

Generally speaking, it’s hard to buy guns in Europe. But there is an exception: It’s easy to buy cheap Kalashnikovs in Europe. Blame the Balkans.

France native and journalist Adeline Sire walked around Paris on Monday to find bloodstained doorways and makeshift memorials and fellow French citizens in pain.