“Lots of people started running and screaming from the Carillon…tables were overturned, plates shattered”. Or, in Mostefai’s case, a bakery assistant.
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If there is one thing that terrorists do well, it is symbolism. This feast, this festive youthfulness is precisely what ISIS, who claimed responsibility for the attacks, wants to shut down and put an end to.
Omar Ismail Mostefai, a 29-year-old bomber, was identified through his severed finger after blowing himself up inside the Bataclan.
“In the aftermath of what was a night of mayhem, the #parisattacks, for France, French President Hollande responded with a resolve to fight, “…we will lead the fight. Dr. Philippe Juvin, an emergency room physician at the Georges Pompidou hospital, said he has never had to care for so many victims at once. Based on the reports, 10 fighter jets, was thrown at the same time from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Before making his final dash, he got a good look at one of the assailants, he said.
The man, dubbed the world’s most wanted man, was arrested after a stand-off in the Brussels district of Molenbeek this morning, according to local broadcaster RTL Radio.
Three Kalashnikovs were found inside another car known to have been used in the attacks that was found in Montreuil, an eastern Parisian suburb, another a French police official said.
“There was no exit, so we were just in another trap, less exposed, but still a trap”, he said.
Mariesha Payne and Christine Tudhope, both from Scotland, hid in a cellar at the Bataclan for three hours. He fears that their mosque will now come under more scrutiny and surveillance.
The Bataclan already had a storied history, opening its doors on Paris’ Right Bank in 1865.
It is partly that stigmatization that drove Mostefai, who was of Algerian descent, to extremism, argues Myriam Benraad, a research fellow specializing in Iraq and the Middle East at the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris.
A judicial source said a 20-year-old Frenchman police identified as one of the three suicide bombers to strike at the Stade de France stadium was Bilal Hadfi. “These guys never felt fully French, especially Algerians, or the children of Algerians”. He addressed the nation just an hour after 129 people were massacred and expressed that they had been prepared and planned from abroad.
The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said two of the killers who died in Friday’s attacks have been identified as French citizens who lived in Brussels.
French officials are saying Abdeslam, and two other men, had been stopped in a car on Saturday near the Belgian border.
Mostefai is hardly alone- some 600 of young French men are suspected to be in touch with ISIS and 185 of whom have actually traveled to Syria or Iraq and back.
France and Germany have the largest population of Muslims in Europe.
The officials also said that a sleeper cell in France then met the attackers after their training and helped them to execute the plan.
President Francois Hollande, who was at the game, described the attacks as ‘an act of war’ and said France’s reaction would be pitiless. They entered the club apparently unnoticed amid the high-decibel music, and opened fire at the crowd. They’re keen on joining radical Muslims and they’re keen to fight.
“They weren’t in there shooting like in an American movie”, Leader said.
France had to be “present and active” following Friday’s attacks, Mr Fabius said.
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In neighboring Belgium, the base for many of Friday’s attackers, police surrounded a suspected hideout for a man identified as a driver for the attackers, but came up empty after charging into the property. Their names have yet to be released. At least one French paper reported that one of those attackers was Omar’s other brother. “We can enhance security measures. We can multiply the number of policeman in the street, but it’s not going to work, nor is the bombings going to work”, she says.
