Two days later, the brothers were shot to death in a standoff with police in Dammartin-en-Goele.
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In an address to the nation following Friday’s attack, Hollande declared a state of emergency and said border security has been ramped up. As police closed in, three detonated explosive belts, killing themselves, according to Paris police chief Michel Cadot.
Initial reports suggested a few 60 people were being held hostage at the Bataclan were 300 people were watching a metal band, and at least 80 are confirmed dead here alone, and 128 in total.
Outside a restaurant where one of the three fatal shootings took place.
A separate assault also took place at a restaurant and bar in the city’s 10th district, leaving 11 people dead, according to The Associated Press.
More than 140 people are now dead, in what Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack against the country. “When terrorists are capable of committing such atrocities, they should be certain that they are facing a determined France, a united France, a France that will not let itself be intimidated, even if today we are expressing endless emotion at this drama and this tragedy”, Hollande said. Police have brought out at least 100 hostages from the concert hall, a CNN producer said; a few appear to be wounded.
Witnesses in the concert hall described hearing attackers say “Allahu Akbar“.
A series of attacks targeting young concert-goers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed at least 120 people in the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II.
“I want to state my solidarity and compassion for all the families who are impacted and I want to point out once again how efficient the security forces were in carrying out their duty in the extremely hard conditions”, Hollande said late Friday night.
The casualties eclipsed the deaths and mayhem in Paris during the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and related assaults around the French capital by Islamic militant extremists less than a year ago. In one, three Americans and a Briton overpowered a heavily armed gunman on a train from Amsterdam to Paris. There were reports that two gun men were killed in the theater.
Mr Hollande said after an emergency security meeting that the death toll in Paris had risen to 127 in a string of near-simultaneous attacks which he said were an “act of war” orchestrated by IS.
A photo taken on November 14, 2015 shows the Bataclan cafe near the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris.
“Then we heard a second explosion and people looked around – it was just kind of weird”, Sharkey said. “The terrorists shot at us for 10 to 15 minutes”.
As he left, he passed 20 or 25 bodies on the ground. The hostage situation at the Bataclan continued early Saturday.
The official, Gregory Goupil of the Alliance Police Nationale, whose region includes the area of the stadium, said explosions went off simultaneously near two entrances and a McDonalds. “And we continue to stand side by side with them in our commitment to a free and peaceful world”. “France must be strong and great”, he said.
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“This is for Syria!” screamed one of the attackers as he sprayed gunfire on Friday night at one of the six sites in Paris, in an obvious reference to France’s combat role against the Islamic State.
