President Francois Hollande led his stunned, jittery nation in one minute’s silence at the University of Sorbonne, while thousands more clasped hands outside a few of the bullet-riddled nightspots where extremists struck Friday night during a half-dozen attacks that also wounded 350.
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“This is just raw terror”, he said, vowing that the campaign against the Islamic State group will succeed. “Tonight we are all Parisians”, Kerry said, delivering remarks in both French and English.
Three officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to provide details about the ongoing investigation, said Tuesday that an analysis of the series of attacks on November 13 indicated that one person directly involved was unaccounted for.
In February of this year, Islamic State’s online magazine Dabiq carried an interview with an Islamist bearing the name of Abdelhamid Abaaoud and boasting of having traveled through Europe unnoticed by security forces to organize attacks and procure weapons.
The second Bataclan suicide bomber to be identified was 28-year-old Samy Amimour from Drancy, a northeastern suburb of Paris.
They deny any knowledge of the massacre, and say Abdeslam said little during the vehicle journey.
“This element and Abaaoud’s fanaticism in Syria allow us to link him to the attacks”, the source said, warning however that it was still “too early” to make a conclusion.
The US has conducted the vast majority of coalition attacks on ISIS territory up to this point, and has been nearly exclusively responsible for all coalition bombings of ISIS inside Syria.
In neighbouring Belgium, police donning balaclavas and assault rifles mounted a tense hours-long standoff outside the suspected hideout of 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, who has been identified as the alleged driver of a rental vehicle that delivered attackers to the scene of greatest slaughter, a rock concert inside a nightclub in which 89 died. IS has also claimed responsibility for that October 31 attack.
Born on July 30, 1984, he is one of three brothers linked to the probe.
The Dutch national football team leaves the hotel with police surveillance, in Hanover, Germany, after the friendly match against Germany was called off for security reasons.
Turkish police had twice warned their French counterparts about Mostefai in December 2014 and June 2015 but had “never heard back from France on the matter”, a Turkish official said.
He is said to be a key Islamic State recruiter of jihadists to Syria.
In France, military spokesman Col. Gilles Jaron said the strikes early Tuesday destroyed a command post and training camp.
Abdeslam also asked the media to be considerate of the rest of his family, who he said were in shock and “don’t quite realize what has happened”. The holder of the passport was later registered as crossing from Macedonia into Serbia where he formally applied for asylum, Serbian officials said.
Police have issued the photograph of one of the three men who blew themselves up outside the Stade de France, who investigators have established entered Europe through Greece, as hundreds of thousands of refugees have done this year.
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“Whoever starts running starts everyone else running”, said a city councilwoman, Alice Carton, who was at the square.
