SAINT-DENIS, France -- The suicide bombers' explosive belts, packed with shrapnel, had been designed to kill and maim the crowds at the national stadium. But while their terrorist associates in the city center of Paris killed 128 people in gun and suicide bomb attacks, the three assailants who blew themselves up outside the Stade de France added just one more body to the overall count of 129. A combination of solid security at the huge arena, quick thinking in a crisis, modern stadium infrastructure and apparent mistakes in the attackers' planning appears to have averted a massacre. That suggests the host of next year's European soccer championships, which are expected to draw millions of...
↧