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The deadly path of the January 2015 Paris terror attacks weapons

The European Union's inability to establish strict, continent-wide regulations concerning the sales of deactivated military weapons, but which allows the widespread sale of assault rifles that can be easily reactivated, played a very clear role in the arming of Islamist terrorists who carried out the waves of terrorist attacks in Paris in January and November 2015. Mediapart, in conjunction with the European media network, European Investigative Collaborations, presents an interactive map showing the trail of the arms used by the terrorists in the Paris attacks of January 2015.

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This interactive map, compiled by the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) network, explains the history of the weapons used by terrorists, acting together in the name of the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda, in their killing rampage in and around Paris in January 2015 which left 20 people dead and another 22 wounded.

(See the main article: How Europe has allowed terrorists child's-play access to a devastating arsenal )

Click on the right-hand arrow-tab of each page presented below to see locations of attacks and slide down the side-bar to read a summary of the events and the history of the arms used by the perpetrators.

January 7th-9th 2015 terrorist attacks in and around Paris: the history of the weapons used. © Mediapart