I doubt that a coded lock is going to stop a determined attack. Not very difficult to blast the door open with a breaching round in most cases.
‘I doubt that a coded lock is going to stop a determined attack. Not very difficult to blast the door open with a breaching round in most cases.’
Blasting the lock off would at least give the intended targets a moment’s warning. But you are right; a coded lock didn’t help in this case at all. The terrorists simply waited for someone to go in or out, and took it from there.
The security guard didn’t help either; I wonder, since French police are not armed, whether the guard was armed?