Speaking in an interview on the RTL radio station, Mr Valls said: “France was not only attacked because we hit Daesh (Isis), but because we are France”.
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“On the behalf of the worldwide tourism community, UNWTO conveys its heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the victims and expresses its full solidarity with the people and the Government of France” said UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai. France’s President described those attacks as “an act of war”.
“We do not believe that there is a solution to the challenge in Syria or Iraq that involves significant numbers of USA combat troops going in”, Ben Rhodes said on Fox News Sunday, adding that there would be a “continued intensification of the air campaign”. They checked his identification, but it’s not known whether they had been informed of his apparent connection to the attacks. Seven of the attackers blew themselves up, and French authorities have been searching for accomplices.
Another suicide bomber, who is also French, has been identified, as well as a French man born in Syria who participated in the attack at the French stadium.
As many as three of the seven suicide bombers who died in the attacks were French citizens, as was at least one of the men arrested in Belgium. There were 352 individuals wounded in the turmoil, and at least 99 of those people were in critical condition.
France was to observe a minute’s silence at midday, which the European Union has called on all member states to respect.
He is believed to be either on the run or one of the gunmen who died during the attacks, security sources said.
Hardly a crime record: Though Mostefai is not thought to have committed any major felonies before Friday’s bloodbath, he was convicted of eight petty crimes between 2004 and 2010.
Police have additional powers under a state of emergency declared after the coordinated attacks in Paris on Friday that left 129 people dead and more than 350 injured.
One fighter says Muslims should strike in the West because the U.S.-led coalition is targeting IS in Iraq.
But a French security official told AP that Paris receives such communication “all the time” and “every day”.
The 28-year-old Samy Amimour was involved in the massacre of 89 people in the Bataclan concert hall, they said.
Three French police officials and a senior French security official confirmed that officers let Abdeslam go after checking his ID.
The worst terror attack in French history comes less than 11 months after jihadists struck satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket, killing 17. “He appears to be the brains behind several planned attacks in Europe”, the source told Reuters.
Ominously, Greek officials said one and perhaps two of the assailants had passed through Greece from Turkey alongside Syrian refugees fleeing violence in their homeland.
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Thousands of French troops were deployed and tourist sites were shut in one of the most visited cities on Earth as more details of the investigation emerged. Panic ensued Sunday night as police abruptly cleared hundreds of mourners from the famed Place de la Republique square, where police said firecrackers sparked a false alarm.
