Hollande vowed to work with allies to destroy the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for bomb and gun attacks in Paris on Friday that killed 129 people and wounded hundreds.
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President Francois Hollande has said France will welcome 30,000 refugees in the next two years.
Hollande pledged that French fighter jets would intensify their assaults and said he would meet U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming days to urge them to pool their resources.
Just hours after the attack occurred on November 13, Hollande said his country was “going to lead a war, it will be pitiless”, NBC News reporter Katy Tur recounted at the time. A passport found near one of the Friday suicide bombers identifying him as a Syrian refugee is believed to be a faked document, though fingerprint evidence appears to show that, whatever the man’s real name and origin, he did pass through Greece earlier this year in the guise of a refugee.
“We are not committed to a war of civilizations, because these assassins don’t represent any civilization”, Hollande said.
France launched on Tuesday night, for the third consecutive day, airstrikes against Daesh in Raqqa, Syria since Friday’s attacks. “The global community must rally around that spirit. I know very well that each country doesn’t have the same interests”, he added.
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Authorities in France and Belgium are still hunting Salah Abdeslam, a Belgian national believed to have helped the Paris attackers.
