The arrest warrant for Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old born in Brussels, calls him very risky and warns people not to intervene if they see him.
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“But we are at war with jihadist terrorism which is a threat to the entire world”.
On Sunday, the air force struck similar strategic targets in multiple sorties, reinserting France, a partner in the U.S.-led coalition striking ISIS from the air, into the battle against ISIS.
Seven of the attackers blew themselves up, and French authorities have been searching for accomplices.
Hollande said that while Assad could not be part of the solution to the crisis, “our enemy is Daesh (Islamic State)”.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian militant who had boasted of mounting attacks in Europe for the Islamic State, was accused of orchestrating last Friday’s coordinated bombings and shootings in the French capital, which killed 129 people.
Addressing this, Hollande said: ‘The sponsors of the attack in Paris must know that their crimes further strengthens the determination of France to fight and to destroy them.
In a rare move for a French President, Mr Hollande addressed a congress of the National Assembly and the Senate at Versailles.
French police carried out 128 raids targeting extremist networks across the country on Tuesday morning, a day after a similar sweep found “an arsenal of weapons” in the southeastern city of Lyon, according to Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
However, Mohamed Abdeslam, the brother of one of the bombers and Saleh, has been released, his lawyer said.
In France, police fanned out across the country overnight and raided 168 locations, using powers granted under the government-declared state of emergency.
As French and Belgian police continue their hunt for suspects in the Paris attacks, one Brussels district is getting attention for all the wrong reasons.
People place flowers on the pavement near the scene of yesterday’s Bataclan Theatre terrorist attack on November 14, 2015 in Paris, France.
“For the second time in 24 hours the French military conducted an air raid against [Isis] in Raqqa in Syria”, the French ministry of defence said in a statement.
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Hollande said he would meet US President Barack Obama in Washington and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in the coming days “so we can unite our forces to achieve a result that has taken too long”.
