Earlier in the report it was said that woman who blew herself up was the wife of the “mastermind”.
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Police with shotguns and a ballistics shields patrolling Place de la Republique in Paris on Sunday.
Shooting broke out in a northern suburb of Paris during an anti-terrorist police operation on Wednesday, Nov 18.
Restaurants, a concert hall and a sports stadium were targeted by terrorists and suicide bombers Friday, killing at least 129 people and injuring more than 350 others. An eighth, Salah Abdeslam, is wanted and a ninth militant is also believed to be at large. Police officers were wounded by gunfire during the raid, CNN reported.
A huge security operation was mounted across France yesterday, with 104 people placed under house arrest, 168 locations raided and a string of weapons seized including a Kalashnikov assault rifle and rocket launchers.
Several police officers were slightly injured during the raid and a police dog named Diesel was also killed.
Saint Denis Mayor Didier Paillard said public transport was suspended and that schools in the centre of town would not open Wednesday.
Three explosions were heard near the Stade de France, where the France-Germany friendly soccer match was being played.
Two of the nine have been charged with terrorist murder and belonging to a terrorist group, the official said.
The target of the raid was a Belgian Islamic State member, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, accused of masterminding the carnage, but it’s still unclear whether he has been found.
The jihadis were set to carry out a second attack after Friday’s massacre, this time targeting Charles de Gaulle airport and the city’s financial district La Defense, according to reports.
Local resident Dina told France 24 that she woke up at 4.30am to the sound of gunshots. “That link exists, since those people are from Iraq and Syria live in areas controlled by Daesh and are tormented by those who attack us nowadays”.
Police used those emergency powers to conduct nearly 300 searches, making 127 arrests and collecting 31 weapons, the Associated Press reported.
France launched on Tuesday night, for the third consecutive day, airstrikes against Daesh in Raqqa, Syria since Friday’s attacks.
Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspected gunmen who is now the focus of an global manhunt, was not among those arrested, the prosecutor added.
Abaaoud went to Syria in 2013 to join IS and became a leading French-speaking recruiter, featuring in a gruesome propaganda video in 2014.
A girl takes a picture from the banks of the River Seine of the illuminated Eiffel Tower in the French national colors red, white and blue in honor of the victims of the terrorist attacks last Friday, in Paris, Wednesda…
For his part, Manuel Valls, France’s prime minister, told RTL Radio: “We know that more attacks are being prepared, not just against France but also against other European countries”.
Seven of the attackers died during the attacks.
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Highlighting USA fears over the attack, two Air France flights bound for Paris from the United States were diverted Tuesday and landed safely after anonymous threats that the carrier described as a “bomb scare”.
