ANTALYA, TURKEY – Turkey warned France nearly a year ago over a suspected Islamic State militant who blew himself up in the bloody Paris attacks but the French authorities did not respond, a senior Turkish official said on Monday.
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Hollande appealed for amendments to the constitution that would create “an appropriate tool we can use without having to resort to the state of emergency”, the BBC reported.
The officers involved are probably from the French national police services’e elite counter-terrorism RAID (Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion) unit or the Groupes d’Intervention de la Police Nationale.
Meanwhile, as soft rain fell on Paris, thousands of people continued to flock to pay their respects as shrines of candles and flowers at the attack sites.
Speaking at Versailles in a rare meeting with the upper and lower houses of parliament, President Francois Hollande said: ‘Today, our country is in mourning.
Another suicide bomber found outside the soccer stadium had the passport of Ahmad Al Mohammed, 25, of Idlib, Syria. Reuters cited an unnamed source in a report that he could be the mastermind behind the Paris attacks. The Polo was rented by a French national living in Belgium, who was intercepted at the Belgian border inside a different vehicle.
More than 30 explosions were reportedly heard across the city, with IS militants restricting people’s movements, making it hard for human rights groups to collect information about any fatalities or injuries. At the moment, according to the French interior minister, 104 people had been placed under house arrest as the result of 168 raids across the country, and 23 people have been taken into custody for further questioning.
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In reference to the attacks in Paris on Friday, he added: “I can not tell you why, I can not tell you how”. A terrorist training camp and a jihadist command center, recruitment center and munitions depot were destroyed, the French Defense Ministry said in a statement reported by the Guardian. Abaaoud is believed to be linked to thwarted attacks on a high-speed train bound for the French capital and a church in the Paris area earlier this year.
