A judicial official and lawmaker Jean-Pierre Gorges confirmed his identity.
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One of the attackers was identified as a French national suspected of traveling to Syria.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying they were in retaliation for French airstrikes against the group in Syria and Iraq, but it hasn’t provided specific information that would allow the claim to be verified.
IS fighters said they carried out the gun and bomb massacre – calling Paris “the capital of prostitution and obscenity”.
Police have formally named just one of the attackers: Ismael Omar Mostefai, 29, from Chartres, southwest of Paris.
The bloodshed in Paris is fueling critics who argue that President Obama’s strategy to isolate and defeat ISIS has fallen short, even as the administration this week pointed to high-profile drone strikes and other attacks as evidence they are making gains against the terrorist group. After the Paris attacks, the social network implemented its Safety Check feature, which gave users in Paris a quick, easy way to tell friends they were safe.
Ahsan Naeem, a 39-year-old filmmaker, said he has been to numerous places that were attacked. Eaten at the Petit Cambodge. “Sat outside Le Carillon on so many nights”, said Mr Naeem, who has lived in Paris for seven years.
“All those places will have been full of my people”.
Experts noted that several factors may have been behind the failures in January: Security services are drowning in data, overwhelmed by the quantity of people and emails they are expected to track, and hampered by the inability to make pre-emptive arrests in democratic countries.
The president said France would increase its military efforts to crush IS.
“We know that operations were being prepared and are still being prepared, not only against France but other European countries too”, he said.
IS claimed responsibility in an online statement in Arabic and French circulated by supporters. It was not immediately possible to confirm the authenticity of the statement, but it bore the group’s logo and resembled previous statements issued by the group.
France, which has described the Paris assault as an act of war, can quickly ramp up its contribution to the air campaign against Islamic State targets.
Many of Paris’s most famous tourist attractions closed down on Saturday, including the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum and the Disneyland theme park east of the capital. And but for 3 heroic Americans and 1 courageous Frenchman a TGV train from Brussels to Paris would have been the scene of another ISIS act of carnage.
Parisians expressed shock, disgust and defiance in equal measure. A few areas were quiet, but hundreds queued outside a hospital near the Bataclan concert hall to donate blood.
As a shrine of flowers expanded along the pavement, a lone guitarist sang John Lennon’s peace ballad Imagine. Officials said the passport holder crossed into Western Europe alongside thousands of refugees from Syria. Now this means battling al-Qaeda and ISIS in Iraq, and perhaps Syria in the future.
Abdeslam is one of three brothers believed to be involved; One who crossed with him into Belgium was later arrested, and another blew himself up inside the Bataclan theater after taking the audience hostage and firing on them repeatedly. The dead included one U.S. citizen, one Swede, one Briton, two Belgians, two Romanians and two Mexicans, their governments said.
French media said he was French-born and of Algerian descent.
Isis noted Francois Hollande’s presence in the Stade de France for the football match between Germany and France, where two suicide bombers detonated their vests. Fans inside the stadium recoiled at the sound of explosions but the game continued.
Three people could be seen clinging to upper-floor balcony railings in a desperate bid to stay out of the line of fire. Then, just two days ago, there was the double terrorist attack in a Shia neighborhood in Beirut, in which dozens of people were killed. However, no such option existed for people in Beirut. “I think that debate’s over now”, said Riedel, now at the Brookings Institution.
IS said that the attacks it carried were a response to France’s campaign against its fighters and insults against Islam’s prophet.
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The death toll rose to 132, with three more people dying on Sunday from their wounds.
