A senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, James Dorsey, doesn’t discount that more similar attacks in France are to be expected.

“This was an operation that required a fair degree of organization as well as planning and logistics capacity,” he told Trend, commenting the recent Paris terror attacks. “The degree to which it can be replicated and with what relative ease will become clearer as the investigation progresses.”