Paris Massacre: Should France Have Seen This Coming?

Long before Friday's massacre in Paris, voices from France were warning it would happen, with some wondering why French authorities didn't do more to prevent it.

Meanwhile, an international manhunt is underway for 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, the terrorist who led the team of gunmen who opened fire on people in restaurants and bars in Paris on Friday night.

One hundred twenty-nine people in six locations were killed in the attacks. Of the 10 terrorists believed to be responsible, police say three survived, possibly escaping in a getaway car loaded with assault rifles.

Paris is a city still in shock. Many are afraid.

*Were last week's attacks in Paris really a surprise? CBN's Erick Stakelbeck and Abigail Robertson address that question and more on The 700 Club, November 16. Click play to watch.

"Yes, I'm scared. I'm scared for me, for my children, for my family, for my friends. But we have to stay strong and united. It's important," Paris resident Asnia Djibourri said.

"We are all really scared," another resident said. "We are all really scared. We are scared, but we know we have to fight back and the only way is to keep on living the way we live."

The French government responded to the horrific attacks by ordering its air force to bomb the de facto ISIS capital of Raqqa in northern Syria.

CBN's Dale Hurd spoke with Caitlin Burke about Friday's terror attacks and whether the French government will wake up to the threat of radical Islam. Click below to watch:

And while there seems to have been ISIS coordination, the emphasis on the attack originating in Syria obscures the fact that most of the attackers were French and Belgian citizens. The enemy is within.

After the Charley Hebdo and kosher supermarket massacre last January, CBN News interviewed several French conservatives, who warned that a stronger attack like last Friday's was a certainty because the French government was still more concerned with political correctness than security.

French TV commentator Eric Zemmour was fired after the Charlie Hebdo attack for saying that Muslims should be deported to avoid "chaos and civil war."

Just recently, Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right Front National party, went on trial for hate speech after she compared Muslims praying in the streets to the Nazi occupation.

Le Pen's former foreign policy adviser, Aymeric Chauprade, got in trouble for saying France is at war with some Muslims in France who sympathize with jihad.

In February, Chauprade told CBN News, "There is an Islamization process and we have to stop it clearly."

And after Charley Hebdo, we heard similar warnings about France's future.

"I see civil war and I'm not a prophet," French author and publisher Jean Robin said. "It's obvious, it's Lebanon -- civil war, civil war, that's clear."

French writer Renaud Camus said, "Civil war is the wrong expression because there will be nothing civil about it."

And what happened Friday in Paris certainly looked a step closer to that.