After the 2015 terrorist attacks in the metropolitan region of Paris both the governmental
counterterrorist plan «Vigipirate» and the state of emergency became key tools to control the
city and its citizens. By giving extra power to the national executive branch mobilizing a
multitude of security and military actors and strengthening preventive regulations these
counterterrorist measures have physically impacted the public spaces of the French capital.
Through its investigative account of a commercial centre a transportation hub and a public
square this work contributes to clarifying the process of militarization and
oversecuritization of the contemporary metropolis.
