Reworded to avoid offence (hopefully): deaths are not irrelevant, but <i>their exact precise number</i> is irrelevant. What matters is the scale of the security failure, compounded by the fact that they suffered a similar one less than a year ago and they were currently on high-alert (because they&#x27;ve only just started bombing Syria).<p>The knowledge that a network could carry out such a widespread and well-coordinated attack without being preempted, in a situation of maximum alert, will heavy on the minds of any French citizen <i>regardless of whether victims were 118 or 119</i>. Basically, the French security system has been revealed as completely ineffective. <i>That</i> is a huge problem.