DW talks to Sofia Koller, Senior Research Analyst at the Counter Extremism Project about counter terrorism efforts in Europe.

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed on the 10th anniversary of the Paris terror attacks: “France is marking the 10th anniversary of the Paris terror attacks by Islamic State Jihadists, who killed more 130 people and wounded hundreds more. President Emmanuel Macron is visiting each one of the sites where gunmen and suicide bombers carried out the attacks to pay his respects to the victims of France's worst terror incident. Commemorations are being held across the capital. Tributes started last night at the Place de la République, where Parisians gathered with candles, flowers and handwritten notes at the base of Marianne, the national symbol, as they did in 2015.”

"It confronted European officials with a new reality," comments Hans-Jakob Schindler, founder and current director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)—based in New York and Berlin—and former head of the UN Security Council's Sanctions Monitoring Team against the Islamic State (Daesh), Al Qaeda, and the Taliban. "They no longer only had to monitor terrorists leaving Europe to join the caliphate. Above all, they had to ensure that they did not return from Iraq or Syria and closely monitor their networks here, determined to attack on European soil."

New episode of #PodParis – with Sofia Koller from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). Ten years after the attacks of November 13, 2015, we look back – and forward – together with Sofia Koller. In this episode, we talk about the security policy and social consequences of November 13, about responsibility and resilience – and about what Germany and France have learned from ten years of fighting terrorism.