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This article is part of a comparative study about the media treatment of Madrid terrorist attack at Atocha’s station in March 2004. Based on a survey conducted on four French newspapers, it deals with the discursive reasoning developed by the national press during the days that followed the event. The analysis casts light on the explicative orientation of the French press compared to the one of other countries involved in Iraq. It appears also that it tried to focus on the relevance of the political building of Europe as an answer to terrorism.