In order to ensure the security of French territory, Hollande said the reductions of army personnel would be suspended till 2019 “for the safety of compatriots”.
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Hollande said that French law should be changed so that dual nationals would be stripped of their French citizenship if they were convicted of terrorism and dual nationals to be banned from entering France if they presented a “terrorism risk”. The jets launched from sites in Jordan and the Persian Gulf, in coordination with USA forces.
Speaking in Turkey, Obama said the Paris bloodshed marked a “terrible and sickening setback” in the West’s anti-Islamic State campaign.
Amimour was charged in France in 2012 for “conspiracy to commit terrorism” over an attempt to travel to Yemen and was wanted on a global arrest warrant after violating the terms of his judicial supervision. “And we know that they have the capacity to cause major damage”, he said. In January, terrorists killed 17 people in a series of attacks that included the storming of the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
He also announced France would create 5,000 more police and gendarmes jobs in the coming two years as a security measure to protect the people leading to a total of 10,000 new posts in the next five years.
They had earlier confirmed two of the French suicide bombers had been living in Belgium. His brother, Brahim, blew himself up when he denoted a suicide vest during the attacks. He said thousands more police officers would be recruited.
Tantalizing clues about the extent of the plot have emerged from Baghdad, where senior Iraqi officials told the AP that France and other countries had been warned on Thursday of an imminent attack.
Russian Federation has already joined France in launching fresh airstrikes against IS targets in its stronghold of Raqqa in Syria.
The announcement came as authorities worldwide struggled to pinpoint those responsible for the deadliest attacks on France since the Second World War.
None of these details have been corroborated by officials of France or other Western intelligence agencies.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive investigation.
Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud. A French official says Abdelhamid Abaaoud is the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks was also linked to thwarted train and church attacks. The attacks wounded 350 people, 99 of them seriously.
“All my life, I have seen the blood of Muslims flow”, Abaaoud said in a video made public in 2014.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls says a few of the victims from last Friday’s attacks in Paris, which killed 129 people, have still to be identified.
A black Renault Clio found in Paris’ 18th district Tuesday morning had been rented by Salah Abdeslam, multiple French media outlets reported, citing police sources.
In Brussels, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian invoked the EU’s mutual assistance clause for the first time since the 2009 Lisbon Treaty introduced the possibility, saying he expected help with French operations in Syria, Iraq and Africa. However, Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere later said there appears to be no close link between them and the attacks.
Belgian police were hunting for Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old Frenchman based in a suburb of Brussels, who is one of at least two brothers believed to have been involved in the plan who managed to cross the border after the attacks.
A new surveillance video obtained by the AP indicated that a team of three attackers carried out the shootings at one of the cafes.
The attackers inside the Bataclan seemed quite young, according to one survivor, Julien Pearce, a journalist at Europe 1 radio who escaped by crawling onto the stage, and then out an exit door when the shooters paused to reload. Before making his final dash, he got a good look at one of the assailants, he said.
“That’s what struck me: his childish face, very determined, cold, calm, frightening”, Pearce said.
Kerry began his day in meetings with embassy staffers, and with French President Francois Hollande (frahn-SWAH’ oh-LAWND’).
“This is September 11 for Europe”, he said.
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France – and the rest of Europe – remain on edge.
