Building Social Scenarios. Self-Fulfilling Prophecies In The Terrorist Attacks In France

In nowadays Europe a wind of terror of an intensity comparable to that of the belligerent periods walks freely and occasionally strikes the apparent tranquility of our lives. Islamic fundamentalist attacks seemingly coming from nowhere without prior psychological preparation manage to create hardly measurable effects. Media and consequently public opinion resonate dramatically to a reality that is destabilizing the social political economic cultural individual or group balance in many parts of this bewildered and concerned Europe. It is a tense context in which fear and terror annihilate rationality and freedom of expression being able to maintain a toxic atmosphere of information and independent media can serve conjecturally unintentionally even to the harmful interests of those terrorist groups.