The deadly Paris attacks Friday night were carried out by ISIS, French president Francois Hollande said during a press conference in the French capital on Saturday.
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By far the worst attack happened at the Bataclan concert hall, where at least 80 people were killed after gunmen stormed the venue.
In a statement issued online on Saturday morning, Islamic State said that “eight brothers wearing explosive belts and carrying assault rifles” conducted a “blessed attack on…”
England’s worldwide friendly against France is set to go ahead at Wembley on Tuesday, despite the terrorist attacks in Paris last night which left over 120 people dead and included suicide bombings outside the Stade de France stadium.
French president Francois Hollande has confirmed 127 people died in the attacks.
-There were at least six attacks: the Bataclan concert hall; Stade de France (the national stadium), La Carillon bar in the 10th arrondissement, La Petit Cambodge in the 10th arrondissement, La Belle Equipe in the 11th arrondissement, and La Casa Nostra in the 11th arrondissement.
“It’s an act of war that was prepared, organized, planned from overseas, with internal help”, he said.
Mr Cameron, who spoke to President Hollande on Saturday, added: “The terrorists’ aim is clear: it is to divide us and to destroy our way of life”.
The attacks raise serious concerns about fans’ safety at Euro 2016, which is being held in France.
The jihadist group says they were created to show France it will remain a top target as long as the country continued its current policies saying Paris was “the capital of abomination and perversion”. The attacks followed the downing of a Russian airliner also blamed on Islamic State, and came as Europe debates how to accommodate streams of refugees fleeing Iraq and Syria.
He warned Britain faced the same threat as France from Islamic State, known as Daesh.
Around the same time, gunmen attacked n a trendy Paris neighborhood, shooting into a string of cafes, which were crowded on an unusually warm November night.
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“Halfway through the first half – maybe the 20, 25-minute mark – we heard an explosion”, Sharkey said. Unscrupulous barbaric acts of vengeance has no place in society.
