Panicky crowds, pop stars pulling out, planes diverted and football matches called off -- Europe is increasingly on edge after Islamic State jihadists staged a bloody attack on Paris, slaughtering 129 people. It doesn't take much to send panic jolting through a Paris crowd these days. Long ignored as the backdrop of sound in a big city, the wail of a police siren or the noise of a car backfiring now sets heads turning. "It's quite psychotic now. People are really jumpy. All it takes is for a door van to be slammed shut for the fear to spread like a virus," said Yann Osouf, the 36-year-old manager of a restaurant close to the Bataclan concert hall targeted in Friday's...
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