“There will be no respite and no truce”, he said.
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Speaking in Vienna, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said his country’s intelligence services had shared information indicating that France, the United States and Iran were among countries at risk of an attack.
President Francois Hollande (centre) and members of Parliament observe a minute of silence.
As indications grew of a Belgian connection, Tuesday’s Belgium-Spain football friendly was cancelled because of security concerns after Belgium raised its terrorist threat level to severe.
Investigators now see a link with the worst terror attacks in French history.
“We did, however, not hear back from France on the matter”, added the official.
France was the first European state to join US air strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq, in September 2014, while a year later it extended its air strikes to Syria.
Thirteen raids were carried out around the southeastern French city of Lyon, a local police source said.
In the face of “barbarism… culture is our biggest shield and our artists our best weapon”, said Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin.
PhotoFrom left: Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Obama, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius of France at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Antalya, Turkey, on Monday.
Late on Sunday, French planes bombed the ISIS stronghold in northern Syria and more raids were reported on Monday.
One of those released was Mohamed Abdeslam – whose brother Brahim took part in the attacks and whose other brother Salah is being hunted by police.
A third brother, Mohammed, was reportedly arrested in the Brussels neighbourhood of Molenbeek while returning from Paris and is in custody.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national now in Syria, was suspected of having ordered the operation, a source close to the investigation said. Both detonated suicide bombs.
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In a sign that at least one gunman might have escaped, a source close to the investigation said a Seat auto believed to have been used by the attackers had been found in the eastern Paris suburb of Montreuil with three Kalashnikov rifles inside.
