The people in the auditorium were lying motionless, he told NBC, “because they were afraid of the terrorist”.
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It added that 174 weapons, 64 drug supplies and €250,000 ($266,675) had been seized.
Abaaoud was believed to be the mastermind of four out of six attacks thwarted since the spring by French authorities, including a recent attack on a high-speed train that was stopped by three American soldiers. “They simply don’t have the same means as Britain’s MI5 or the DGSI (French intelligence agency)”, said Mr Louis Caprioli, a former head of the DST, France’s former anti-terrorism unit.
Upon entering the security council meeting on Sunday evening, Belgian Vice President Kris Peeters said “tomorrow, we have school”. She represents Hazma Attou, 21, who is being held by Belgian authorities on charges of terrorist murder and membership in a terrorist organization.
He says European Union nations assigned the EU Commission to look at changes in the Schengen border system to make sure loopholes are closed.
Meanwhile, Belgian authorities continued to hold two of the nine people detained in raids there linked to Belgium-based Bilal Hadfi, who blew himself up near the Stade de France last Friday.
But French officials seemed reluctant to acknowledge shortcomings in tracking Abaaoud and others who have returned from Syria.
Police found the bodies of Abaaoud, his female cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen and one unidentified man after the raid.
No other details were released.
That hope was echoed in numerous hand-written signs and notes left outside the attack sites: defiant messages of love, vows that the slaughter will not turn Parisians toward hatred and suspicion.
He says it’s a “totally new phenomenon”. The information was relayed after last week’s attack, according to a source close to the investigation.
Abaaoud, 28, was accused of orchestrating last Friday’s attacks.
The cafes and bistros of Paris are the French capital’s living room.
Both she and Abaaoud were killed as heavily armed SWAT teams raided the apartment in Saint-Denis early Wednesday, prosecutors said.
French artists and cultural figures are calling for people to mark a week since the start of the Paris attacks with an outpouring of “noise and light”.
French artists and cultural figures presented the idea in a letter published on the “Huffington Post”.
It says the killers’ attack on “culture and freedom” should unite people of all races, faiths and backgrounds.
Under gray skies and rain, Paris on Friday marked a week since the bloodbath with silence and reflection. A gathering at France’s oldest mosque to show inter-community solidarity was canceled Friday because of security fears. “But yes, that’s what they asked him to do”, Mr Trevidic told Reuters. At least one suspected participant remains at large.
May said “we need to see immediate progress”.
“The negotiation has taken too long”.
“She was unstable, she created her own bubble”.
“It was only on November 16, after the Paris attacks, that an intelligence service outside Europe signaled that it had been aware that he had been in Greece”, he said, without specifying when Abaaoud was spotted there and who gave France the intelligence. The death toll is expected to continue rising in the deadliest violence the city has seen since the 50s.
It is unclear whether the passport belongs to the attacker.
“These individuals took advantage of the refugee crisis… of the chaos, perhaps, for some of them to slip in” to France, he said on the France 2 television station. Could it be that of the suspected missing gunman Abdeslam?
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When Islamic State jihadists issued their claim of responsibility, their statement mentioned the assaults on the stadium, the 10th and 11th districts of Paris, but also the 18th, where no attack took place.
