The “Charlie Hebdo attack” in the morning of 7 January 2015 opened a 3 days series of terror attacks across Paris region. As France pays homage to victims, local media dedicated a too large part of their programming to a meticulouse coverage of the attacks. We retrospectively analized the activity of our Chest Pain Unit during January 2015 in Toulouse (France) hypothesizing that emotional stress could have triggered increased rate of cardiovascular–related admission. In January 2015 a total of 346 patients were referred to our Chest Pain Unit. Among them, 162 where hospitalized and spent at least one night in hospital; 184 were discharged, we excluded cardiovascular etiologies for their chest pain. We observed a higher rate of hospitalizations when comparing the three days of attaks (7-9/01/15) with rate of admission for the whole month of January 2015 and 2014. During these 3 days, the incidence of daily admission for cardiovascular events requiring hospitalization raised by more than 75% (4.85 vs 8,67; p=0.0025;+78.4%; IC95% 1.44-6.15) if compared with the daily rate for the rest of January 2015. We obtained similar data when comparing rate of daily hospitalizations with the same week-days of the following week (3.67 vs 8,67; p=0.0061;+136.2%; IC95%=2.38-7.62), or also the year before at the same time (year 2014). We observed a significant decrease 3 days after the attacks (From 8.67 to 4.67; p=0.0058; –46.1%; IC95%=1.77-6.23). Furthermore we analysed more specifically cardiovascular causes and we observed a significant increase in comparison with the whole month of january of the incidence of STEMI (+180%, p=0,029), NSTEMI (+60,9%, p=0,014;), symptomatic cardiac arrhythmias (+71,9%, p=0,027;), and of heart failure (+86,7%, p=0,035;). Our data provides the evidence that a high stressful experience as a terrorist attack intensively relayed by the media induces significant admission for chest pain leading to hospitalisation for cardiovascular events.