On 13 November , 28 hours after the Beirut attack , three groups of ISIS terrorists performed mass killings in various places in Paris ' Xe and XIe arrondissements . They killed a total of more than 130 citizens . Hostages were taken in the concert hall " Le Bataclan " for three hours , and ninety were killed before the special police entered . The president immediately started the emergency threat procedure , for the first time on the entire French territory since the Algeria events in 1960
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