Amid three days of official mourning following the deadly terror attacks early on Saturday (NZT) that killed 129 people and wounded 350, thousands of French troops supported police in restoring a sense of security in the on-edge capital.
Advertisement
The president was due to meet visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday morning to press his call for the United States and Russian Federation to join in a grand global coalition to fight Islamic State in Syria. The dispatch said the Iraqis had no specific details on when or where the attack would take place, and a senior French security official told the AP that French intelligence gets this kind of communication “all the time” and “every day”.
Turning to measures within France, he said he would ask parliament to consider extending a state of emergency by three months.
A police official not authorized to be publicly named because of police rules said four police officers were injured. The official said Turkey had no response from France until after the Paris attacks when it requested information on Mostefai. “We found out about it from the television as many of you did”, Mohammad Abdeslam said.
The militants included Amedy Coulibaly who was believed to have bought weapons in Molenbeek, and was later involved in the assault on a Jewish supermarket in January.
But police have yet to announce the capture of anyone suspected of direct involvement in Friday’s slaughter.
Bilal Hadfi, thought to be 20, one of three who attacked the Stade de France.
At a Paris school, a father said, “It’s hard to let them go off to school and for us to return to work, for everyone”.
Such a ceasefire would free nations supporting Syria’s various factions to concentrate more on the Islamic State, which is ineligible for the truce and has come under greater military scrutiny since Friday’s attacks in Paris.
People pay respects prior to going to work Monday at the site of the attack at the Cafe Belle Equipe on rue de Charonne. The men were the only two of seven people detained Saturday after police swept into the Molenbeek area of Brussels.
Prosecutors said that one suicide bomber who blew himself up in the Bataclan music hall Friday night in Paris was Samy Amimour, a 28-year-old Frenchman charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012. French warplanes carried out fresh raids overnight against the Islamic State stronghold of Raqa in northern Syria, destroying a command centre and training centre, the defence ministry said today.
Advertisement
A French official says the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks was also linked to thwarted train and church attacks. “We have to face up to this, and Europe ought to understand”, he told France Inter radio.
