Truck attack sends message that French are not safe anywhere

Not in a Paris cafe, not at a soccer match, and now, not even watching fireworks with your children on the seaside promenade of Nice.

“The nature of these inspired attacks ... has broadened the target zone to encompass all public and private spaces,” according to an analysis Friday from the Soufan Group, an organization of security consultants.

Just as terror alerts advising the public to be on the lookout for ‘something’ are ineffective and possibly counterproductive, efforts to harden cities against these attacks and assaults are problematic because the venue and method of attacks are limitless.

The heavily armed gunmen who attacked in January 2015 chose targets that were more political: the journalists at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and Jews at a kosher supermarket.

The Nov. 13 gunmen who killed 130 people went after specific symbols of France’s free and easy way of life — the Bataclan concert hall, Paris restaurants and cafes, and the national stadium.

In a statement claiming responsibility, the Islamic state group called it an attack on “the capital of prostitution and obscenity.”