Six blew themselves up with suicide belts, while police shot a seventh dead.
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Police sources in Paris said “several dozen” pre-dawn raids were carried out in French cities on Monday, including in Bobigny, an eastern suburb of the capital.
The head of Germany’s Federal Criminal Office said there was no sign that Islamist militants had entered Germany posing as an asylum seeker to commit an attack. And he called for constitutional amendments that would give more weight to security measures relative to civil liberties. Hollande said Parliament will consider a bill to extend the State of Emergency for three months.
Article 42.7 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty states that if a member country “is the victim of armed aggression on its territory”, other members have “an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power”. It was the country’s most intense military strike yet against the radical group, which had claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris. French air strikes also hit Islamic State in Syria overnight.
In a statement, France’s army general staff said 10 fighter jets were involved in its latest assault on IS in Syria and that they destroyed a command and training centre.
He said that perhaps two or three “teams” of bombers carried out the attacks outside the stadium during a soccer match between France and Germany.
Two of the gunmen behind the bloodbath at the Bataclan theatre, where 89 people were killed, have been identified as Paris native Omar Ismail Mostefai and Samy Amimour.
In addition to giving the dispatch to French authorities, Iraqi intelligence officers said they also shared specific details before the attack about the possible masterminds and them being trained in Syria. Along with an aggressive manhunt, security services carried out more than 150 property searches, slapped house arrest orders on over 100 people and deported 38 more, reports CBS News’ Elizabeth Palmer. Police in Molenbeek arrested another brother, Mohamed, but freed him Monday without charge.
Abdeslam rented the black Volkswagen Polo used by the hostage-takers, another French security official said. In other cities – Delhi, Doha and Dublin – crowds gathered at French embassies to pay their respect.
As France remains in mourning, officials began retracing the paths of the assailants.
At one house in the Rhône department in the southeast, around Lyon, the police found a Kalashnikov assault rifle, three automatic pistols, ammunition and bulletproof vests.
Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said: “This is just the beginning”.
When the father arrived in the town of Minbej, northeast of Aleppo, he said that his son was injured and that he was impersonal and strident about fighting for the Islamic State. A Syrian passport in the name of Ahmad Al Mohammad found at the scene of the attack was located near his body, but prosecutors said the authenticity of the passport “had yet to be verified”. The holder of the passport passed through the Greek island of Leros on October 3 and the Serbian border town of Presovo on October 7, according to Greek and Serbian officials.
Investigators say Hadfi was a French national who was living in Belgium and had spent time in Syria.
The official, who has direct knowledge of the police investigation but is not authorized to speak publicly about the probe, said Abaaoud also is suspected of overseeing two thwarted attacks earlier this year on a Paris church and a Paris-bound train. He was placed under judicial supervision but violated the terms of that supervision in the fall of 2013, prompting the authorities to put out an global arrest warrant.
A senior official in Turkey said they had informed France twice before the attacks.
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“We do not know if, despite the current tensions, he will dare to surrender to the justice”. “What happens when there’s a terrorist attack generated from Yemen?” He made clear he was not going to send USA ground troops to Syria.
Elsewhere in Europe, the authorities tightened security.
Thousands of Europeans have joined militant groups in Iraq and Syria, raising fears they could come back and launch terrorist attacks in their home countries.
He said European Union partners could help “either by taking part in France’s operations in Syria or Iraq, or by easing the load or providing support for France in other operations”.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who like Obama attended the Group of 20 meeting, said he would consider speeding up the legislative timetable for a proposed law to govern electronic surveillance by the intelligence agencies, though he added that it was important to bring Parliament and public support with him.
“France is like the US after 9/11”, said Gerard Grunberg, a senior researcher at the Paris Institute for Political Sciences.
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As authorities across the world endeavoured to identify those responsible for the Paris terror attacks, France and allies, meanwhile, observed a minute’s silence in the memory of those killed, and wounded in the Paris attacks.
