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Paris attacks carried out by three teams; France vows ‘merciless’ war on Islamic State
Greg Keller And Jamey Keaten
PARIS — The Associated Press
Published Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 5:30AM EST
Last updated Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 9:56PM EST
What we know
French, Belgian police make arrests following Paris attacks ( Reuters )
President Francois Hollande vowed that France would wage “merciless” war on the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the mayhem, as investigators raced to track down their accomplices and uncovered possible links to networks in Belgium and Syria.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said three groups of attackers, including seven suicide bombers, carried out the “act of barbarism” that shattered a Parisian Friday night.
He said the attackers in the Bataclan concert hall, where 89 people died, mentioned Syria and Iraq during their rampage. Of the hundreds wounded in the six attacks, 99 were in critical condition.
Seven attackers launched gun attacks at Paris cafes, detonated suicide bombs near France’s national stadium and killed hostages inside the concert venue during a show by an American rock band – an attack on the heart of the pulsing City of Light.
Ahsan Naeem, a 39-year-old filmmaker, said he’s been to many of the places that were attacked Friday.
“I’ve seen dozens of gigs at the Bataclan. Eaten at the Petit Cambodge. Sat outside Le Carillon on so many nights,” said Naeem, who has lived in Paris for seven years. “All those places will have been full of my people. My friends. My acquaintances.”
Late Saturday, a crowd of up to 250 people gathered for an impromptu candlelight vigil at the Place de la Republique, the site of a massive demonstration in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings earlier this year.
Adrien Chambel, a 27-year-old law student, said the crowd was much sparser than in January. “You feel that people are petrified,” Chambel said.
Hollande, who declared three days of national mourning and raised the nation’s security to its highest level, called the carnage “an act of war that was prepared, organized, planned from abroad with internal help.”
The president said France would increase its military efforts to crush IS. He said France – which is part of a U.S.-led coalition bombing suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq and also has troops fighting Islamic militants in Africa – “will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group.”
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility in an online statement in Arabic and French circulated by supporters. It was not immediately possible to confirm the authenticity of the claim, which bore the group’s logo and resembled previous verified statements from the group.
The statement called Paris “the capital of prostitution and obscenity” and mocked France’s air attacks on suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq, saying France’s air power was “of no use to them in the streets and rotten alleys of Paris.” (Read more here about the statement here.)
Many of Paris’s top tourist attractions closed down Saturday, including the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum and the Disneyland theme park east of the capital. Some 3,000 troops were deployed to help restore order and reassure a frightened populace.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced that all public demonstrations would be banned until Thursday and local governments throughout the country would have the option to impose nightly curfews.
The attacks, on an unusually balmy November Friday evening, struck at the heart of Parisian nightlife, including at a soccer match, which draws together spectators of all social classes and backgrounds.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said the attacks had targeted the Paris of diversity, “probably because this example of living together, which is so strong in our city, is unbearable for fanatical people.”
Parisians expressed shock, disgust and defiance in equal measure. Some 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 sidewalk, a lone guitarist sang John Lennon’s peace ballad, “Imagine.”
THE ATTACKERS
Authorities said seven attackers died, six in suicide bombings, a new terror tactic in France. Authorities said police shot the other assailant, exploding his suicide vest. Police have detained two relatives of the one attacker who has been identified so far, the prosecutor’s spokeswoman said.
Molins, the prosecutor, said all seven attackers wore identical suicide vests containing the explosive TATP, which has been called “the mother of Satan” because of its volatility.
TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, is an improvised explosive that also was used in the 2005 London bombings that killed 52 commuters, and by Richard Reid, who tried unsuccessfully to detonate a bomb in his shoe during a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001.
The U.S. government’s National Counterterrorism Centre lists TATP as a common explosive and describes it as “relatively easy to synthesize.” Experts have said that tracing the materials used to make the explosive can be difficult because they are so readily available in stores.
Molins said one attacker was identified from fingerprints as a French-born man with a criminal record.
In addition, a Syrian passport found near the body of another attacker was linked to a man who entered the European Union through a Greek island last month.
Officials in Greece said the passport’s owner entered in October through Leros, one of the islands that tens of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in Syria and elsewhere have been using as a gateway into the European Union. Molins said the Syria-linked attacker was not known to French intelligence services. Another gunman was a native of Courcouronnes – about 20 miles south of Paris – had a criminal record and was known to be associated with extremist Islamic ideology, Molins said.
The hunt for possible accomplices of the terrorists gained steam Saturday. Officials in Belgium announced three arrests, one of them linked to a rental car found in Paris. In a Twitter message posted on Saturday, Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens said “multiple searches and arrests” had been made, and that they were related to a vehicle with a Belgian number plate.
A man arrested in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria in early November after guns and explosives were found in his car may be linked to Friday’s deadly assault in Paris, Bavaria’s state premier said on Saturday. Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the 51-year old from Montenegro had an address in Paris as destination in his vehicle navigation system and that as far as he knew the French authorities had been informed about it.
BORDER TIGHTENING
If the attack does involve militants who travelled to Europe amid millions of refugees from the Middle East, the implications could be profound.
The deadly attacks have sparked a debate in Germany on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy and how to get a better overview of the people entering the country. Merkel said Germany would help France to hunt down the perpetrators and backers of the attacks, promising a joint battle to defend European values.
“This attack on freedom is not only aimed against Paris. It’s aimed against us all,” Merkel said. “We know that our free life is stronger than terror.”
German authorities increased security measures at public places such as train stations and Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said more extremists could be on the run.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged world leaders on Saturday to prioritize the fight against terrorism as they gathered for a summit in southwestern Turkey, saying the Paris attacks showed the time for words was now over.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it was too soon to say whether the attacks in Paris would prompt him to reconsider his pledge to withdraw Canada from airstrikes against Islamic State militants in the Middle East. He is to meet Monday with Erdogan, who has placed the refugee crisis on the G20 agenda because of the ongoing carnage in neighbouring Syria, which has sent more than two million asylum seekers to Turkey.
Poland’s prospective minister for European affairs, Konrad Szymanski, said that in light of the attacks, Poland would not comply with an EU plan to accept refugees unless it received “guarantees of security.”
The attack brought an immediate tightening of borders as Hollande declared a state of emergency and announced renewed border checks. Germany also stepped up border checks.
Belgian authorities conducted raids in a Brussels neighbourhood and arrested three people near the border with France after a car with Belgian license plates was seen close to the Bataclan theatre. Molins said a French national was among the three arrested.
THE ASSAULT
The militants launched six gun and bomb attacks over the course of 20 minutes Friday in areas of the capital packed with people.
Three suicide bombs targeted spots around the national Stade de France stadium, in the north of the capital, where Hollande was watching a France-Germany soccer match. Fans inside the stadium recoiled at the sound of explosions, but the match continued.
Around the same time, fusillades of bullets shook a trendy Paris neighbourhood as gunmen targeted a string of crowded cafes.
The attackers next stormed the Bataclan concert hall, which was hosting the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal. They opened fire on the panicked audience and took many hostage. As police closed in, three detonated explosive belts, killing themselves, according to Paris police chief Michel Cadot.
Another assailant detonated a suicide bomb on Boulevard Voltaire, near the music hall, the prosecutor’s office said.
Video shot by Le Monde reporter Daniel Psenney from his balcony captured scenes of panic as people fled the Bataclan, some bloodied and limping, others dragging two bodies. Three people could be seen clinging to upper-floor balcony railings in a desperate bid to stay out of the line of fire.
A tall 38-year-old concert-goer named Sylvain collapsed in tears as he described escaping from the chaos during a lull in gunfire.
“There were shots everywhere, in waves,” Sylvain told The Associated Press. “I lay down on the floor. I saw at least two shooters, but I heard others talk. They cried, ‘It’s Hollande’s fault.’ I heard one of the shooters shout, ‘Allahu Akbar.“’ He spoke on condition that his full name not be used out of concern for his safety.
GLOBAL RESPONSE
Reflecting fears in other European capitals of the risk of co-ordinated or copycat attacks, the British government mounted a meeting of its emergency committee, known as COBRA. Italy said it was raising security levels on borders and major public places.
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s office said “a small number of British nationals have been caught up in the attack.”
Trudeau said the terrorist attacks in Paris are “deeply worrying” and Canada has offered its full support to France. Speaking before boarding a government plane for Turkey, Mr. Trudeau said he had spoken to his national security team to ensure that “everything is being done to keep people safe and we will have more to say as we learn more about this terrible tragedy.”
Scores of appeals for missing people circulated on Twitter and green “I am safe” ticks appeared on Facebook profiles of many Parisians on Saturday, as an outpouring of shock and grief over Friday’s deadly assault dominated social media.
Instagram, Twitter and Facebook were flooded with tributes, messages of condolences and solidarity for the victims and for France, with #PrayforParis and #PrayersforParis the top trending hashtags by far.
GLOBAL ATTACKS
The Paris carnage was the worst in a series of attacks claimed by the Islamic State group in the past three days. On Thursday, twin suicide bombings in Beirut killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 200, and 26 people died Friday in Baghdad in a suicide blast and a roadside bombing that targeted Shiites.
The militant group also said it bombed a Russian plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 31, killing 224 people.
IS also suffered significant reversals this week, with Kurdish forces launching an offensive to retake the strategic Iraqi city of Sinjar and the U.S. military saying it had likely killed Mohammed Emwazi, the British-accented militant known as “Jihadi John” who is seen in grisly IS beheading videos. The Pentagon also said an American airstrike targeted and likely killed Abu Nabil, a top Islamic State leader in Libya.
France has been on edge since January, when Islamic extremists attacked the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had run cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and a kosher grocery. Twenty people died in those attacks, including three shooters.
Paris resident Olivier Bas was among several hundred people who gathered at the site of the Bataclan massacre Saturday, laying flowers and lighting candles only a few hundred yards (meters) from where a police officer was murdered during the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Although Paris was quiet and jittery, Bas said that he intended to go out for a drink – “to show that they won’t win.”
Meanwhile, French authorities continued their investigation. They are particularly concerned about the threat from hundreds of French Islamic radicals who are known to have travelled to Syria and have returned home, potentially with skills to mount attacks.
“The big question on everyone’s mind is: Were these attackers – if they turn out to be connected to one of the groups in Syria – were they homegrown terrorists or were they returning fighters?” said Brian Michael Jenkins, a terrorism expert.
– With files from Reuters and The New York Times
Greg Keller And Jamey Keaten
PARIS — The Associated Press
Published Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 5:30AM EST
Last updated Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 9:56PM EST
What we know
- Islamic State claims responsibility; French President Francois Hollande says attacks were “act of war”
- The assault was carried out by three teams of co-ordinated attackers
- Six attackers were killed in suicide bombings, and another was shot and killed by police
- Attackers used the explosive TATP, which has been called the “mother of Satan” because of its volatility
- TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, is an improvised explosive that was used in the 2005 London bombings that killed 52 commuters
- Greek officials said one attacker, whose Syrian passport was recovered, passed through Greece in October
- Another attacker, who died at the concert hall was a native of Courcouronnes, about 20 miles south of Paris, and had a criminal record; he was known to be associated with extremist Islamic ideology
- A spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office says members of one of the attackers’ family – a Frenchman born in the Paris suburbs – have been detained
- Belgian police arrested three people on Saturday
- A man was arrested in Germany who may be linked to the attacks
- Germany’s vice-chancellor warns against crackdown on migrants coming to Europe
French, Belgian police make arrests following Paris attacks ( Reuters )
President Francois Hollande vowed that France would wage “merciless” war on the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the mayhem, as investigators raced to track down their accomplices and uncovered possible links to networks in Belgium and Syria.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said three groups of attackers, including seven suicide bombers, carried out the “act of barbarism” that shattered a Parisian Friday night.
He said the attackers in the Bataclan concert hall, where 89 people died, mentioned Syria and Iraq during their rampage. Of the hundreds wounded in the six attacks, 99 were in critical condition.
Seven attackers launched gun attacks at Paris cafes, detonated suicide bombs near France’s national stadium and killed hostages inside the concert venue during a show by an American rock band – an attack on the heart of the pulsing City of Light.
Ahsan Naeem, a 39-year-old filmmaker, said he’s been to many of the places that were attacked Friday.
“I’ve seen dozens of gigs at the Bataclan. Eaten at the Petit Cambodge. Sat outside Le Carillon on so many nights,” said Naeem, who has lived in Paris for seven years. “All those places will have been full of my people. My friends. My acquaintances.”
Late Saturday, a crowd of up to 250 people gathered for an impromptu candlelight vigil at the Place de la Republique, the site of a massive demonstration in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings earlier this year.
Adrien Chambel, a 27-year-old law student, said the crowd was much sparser than in January. “You feel that people are petrified,” Chambel said.
Hollande, who declared three days of national mourning and raised the nation’s security to its highest level, called the carnage “an act of war that was prepared, organized, planned from abroad with internal help.”
The president said France would increase its military efforts to crush IS. He said France – which is part of a U.S.-led coalition bombing suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq and also has troops fighting Islamic militants in Africa – “will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group.”
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility in an online statement in Arabic and French circulated by supporters. It was not immediately possible to confirm the authenticity of the claim, which bore the group’s logo and resembled previous verified statements from the group.
The statement called Paris “the capital of prostitution and obscenity” and mocked France’s air attacks on suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq, saying France’s air power was “of no use to them in the streets and rotten alleys of Paris.” (Read more here about the statement here.)
Many of Paris’s top tourist attractions closed down Saturday, including the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum and the Disneyland theme park east of the capital. Some 3,000 troops were deployed to help restore order and reassure a frightened populace.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced that all public demonstrations would be banned until Thursday and local governments throughout the country would have the option to impose nightly curfews.
The attacks, on an unusually balmy November Friday evening, struck at the heart of Parisian nightlife, including at a soccer match, which draws together spectators of all social classes and backgrounds.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said the attacks had targeted the Paris of diversity, “probably because this example of living together, which is so strong in our city, is unbearable for fanatical people.”
Parisians expressed shock, disgust and defiance in equal measure. Some 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 sidewalk, a lone guitarist sang John Lennon’s peace ballad, “Imagine.”
THE ATTACKERS
Authorities said seven attackers died, six in suicide bombings, a new terror tactic in France. Authorities said police shot the other assailant, exploding his suicide vest. Police have detained two relatives of the one attacker who has been identified so far, the prosecutor’s spokeswoman said.
Molins, the prosecutor, said all seven attackers wore identical suicide vests containing the explosive TATP, which has been called “the mother of Satan” because of its volatility.
TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, is an improvised explosive that also was used in the 2005 London bombings that killed 52 commuters, and by Richard Reid, who tried unsuccessfully to detonate a bomb in his shoe during a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001.
The U.S. government’s National Counterterrorism Centre lists TATP as a common explosive and describes it as “relatively easy to synthesize.” Experts have said that tracing the materials used to make the explosive can be difficult because they are so readily available in stores.
Molins said one attacker was identified from fingerprints as a French-born man with a criminal record.
In addition, a Syrian passport found near the body of another attacker was linked to a man who entered the European Union through a Greek island last month.
Officials in Greece said the passport’s owner entered in October through Leros, one of the islands that tens of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in Syria and elsewhere have been using as a gateway into the European Union. Molins said the Syria-linked attacker was not known to French intelligence services. Another gunman was a native of Courcouronnes – about 20 miles south of Paris – had a criminal record and was known to be associated with extremist Islamic ideology, Molins said.
The hunt for possible accomplices of the terrorists gained steam Saturday. Officials in Belgium announced three arrests, one of them linked to a rental car found in Paris. In a Twitter message posted on Saturday, Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens said “multiple searches and arrests” had been made, and that they were related to a vehicle with a Belgian number plate.
A man arrested in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria in early November after guns and explosives were found in his car may be linked to Friday’s deadly assault in Paris, Bavaria’s state premier said on Saturday. Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the 51-year old from Montenegro had an address in Paris as destination in his vehicle navigation system and that as far as he knew the French authorities had been informed about it.
BORDER TIGHTENING
If the attack does involve militants who travelled to Europe amid millions of refugees from the Middle East, the implications could be profound.
The deadly attacks have sparked a debate in Germany on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy and how to get a better overview of the people entering the country. Merkel said Germany would help France to hunt down the perpetrators and backers of the attacks, promising a joint battle to defend European values.
“This attack on freedom is not only aimed against Paris. It’s aimed against us all,” Merkel said. “We know that our free life is stronger than terror.”
German authorities increased security measures at public places such as train stations and Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said more extremists could be on the run.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged world leaders on Saturday to prioritize the fight against terrorism as they gathered for a summit in southwestern Turkey, saying the Paris attacks showed the time for words was now over.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it was too soon to say whether the attacks in Paris would prompt him to reconsider his pledge to withdraw Canada from airstrikes against Islamic State militants in the Middle East. He is to meet Monday with Erdogan, who has placed the refugee crisis on the G20 agenda because of the ongoing carnage in neighbouring Syria, which has sent more than two million asylum seekers to Turkey.
Poland’s prospective minister for European affairs, Konrad Szymanski, said that in light of the attacks, Poland would not comply with an EU plan to accept refugees unless it received “guarantees of security.”
The attack brought an immediate tightening of borders as Hollande declared a state of emergency and announced renewed border checks. Germany also stepped up border checks.
Belgian authorities conducted raids in a Brussels neighbourhood and arrested three people near the border with France after a car with Belgian license plates was seen close to the Bataclan theatre. Molins said a French national was among the three arrested.
THE ASSAULT
The militants launched six gun and bomb attacks over the course of 20 minutes Friday in areas of the capital packed with people.
Three suicide bombs targeted spots around the national Stade de France stadium, in the north of the capital, where Hollande was watching a France-Germany soccer match. Fans inside the stadium recoiled at the sound of explosions, but the match continued.
Around the same time, fusillades of bullets shook a trendy Paris neighbourhood as gunmen targeted a string of crowded cafes.
The attackers next stormed the Bataclan concert hall, which was hosting the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal. They opened fire on the panicked audience and took many hostage. As police closed in, three detonated explosive belts, killing themselves, according to Paris police chief Michel Cadot.
Another assailant detonated a suicide bomb on Boulevard Voltaire, near the music hall, the prosecutor’s office said.
Video shot by Le Monde reporter Daniel Psenney from his balcony captured scenes of panic as people fled the Bataclan, some bloodied and limping, others dragging two bodies. Three people could be seen clinging to upper-floor balcony railings in a desperate bid to stay out of the line of fire.
A tall 38-year-old concert-goer named Sylvain collapsed in tears as he described escaping from the chaos during a lull in gunfire.
“There were shots everywhere, in waves,” Sylvain told The Associated Press. “I lay down on the floor. I saw at least two shooters, but I heard others talk. They cried, ‘It’s Hollande’s fault.’ I heard one of the shooters shout, ‘Allahu Akbar.“’ He spoke on condition that his full name not be used out of concern for his safety.
GLOBAL RESPONSE
Reflecting fears in other European capitals of the risk of co-ordinated or copycat attacks, the British government mounted a meeting of its emergency committee, known as COBRA. Italy said it was raising security levels on borders and major public places.
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s office said “a small number of British nationals have been caught up in the attack.”
Trudeau said the terrorist attacks in Paris are “deeply worrying” and Canada has offered its full support to France. Speaking before boarding a government plane for Turkey, Mr. Trudeau said he had spoken to his national security team to ensure that “everything is being done to keep people safe and we will have more to say as we learn more about this terrible tragedy.”
Scores of appeals for missing people circulated on Twitter and green “I am safe” ticks appeared on Facebook profiles of many Parisians on Saturday, as an outpouring of shock and grief over Friday’s deadly assault dominated social media.
Instagram, Twitter and Facebook were flooded with tributes, messages of condolences and solidarity for the victims and for France, with #PrayforParis and #PrayersforParis the top trending hashtags by far.
GLOBAL ATTACKS
The Paris carnage was the worst in a series of attacks claimed by the Islamic State group in the past three days. On Thursday, twin suicide bombings in Beirut killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 200, and 26 people died Friday in Baghdad in a suicide blast and a roadside bombing that targeted Shiites.
The militant group also said it bombed a Russian plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 31, killing 224 people.
IS also suffered significant reversals this week, with Kurdish forces launching an offensive to retake the strategic Iraqi city of Sinjar and the U.S. military saying it had likely killed Mohammed Emwazi, the British-accented militant known as “Jihadi John” who is seen in grisly IS beheading videos. The Pentagon also said an American airstrike targeted and likely killed Abu Nabil, a top Islamic State leader in Libya.
France has been on edge since January, when Islamic extremists attacked the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had run cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and a kosher grocery. Twenty people died in those attacks, including three shooters.
Paris resident Olivier Bas was among several hundred people who gathered at the site of the Bataclan massacre Saturday, laying flowers and lighting candles only a few hundred yards (meters) from where a police officer was murdered during the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Although Paris was quiet and jittery, Bas said that he intended to go out for a drink – “to show that they won’t win.”
Meanwhile, French authorities continued their investigation. They are particularly concerned about the threat from hundreds of French Islamic radicals who are known to have travelled to Syria and have returned home, potentially with skills to mount attacks.
“The big question on everyone’s mind is: Were these attackers – if they turn out to be connected to one of the groups in Syria – were they homegrown terrorists or were they returning fighters?” said Brian Michael Jenkins, a terrorism expert.
– With files from Reuters and The New York Times
