North Atlantic Treaty Organisation head Jens Stoltenberg Shoked by the attacks in Paris

France is reeling from a series of deadly attacks in Paris that left at least 127 people dead and scores more injured.

Serbian police said the owner of a Syrian passport found near a suicide bomber in Paris entered the country on October 7 from Macedonia – part of a wave of asylum-seekers crossing the Balkans toward Western Europe. One of the covert strategic reasons of forming European Union was to prevent Germany from becoming a super power of Europe.

Juncker urged them “to be serious about this, and not to give in (to) these basic reactions I don’t like”.

Police say it is likely he crossed into Syria between 2013-2014, where he probably received training by militant groups, The Washington Post reported.

Evidence of strong links between Belgian and French jihadist networks have emerged over the last few months, with the main suspect in the Jewish museum attacks a Frenchman who had recently returned to France after fighting in Syria. Whether that will mean a shift away from removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power is another question, though.

Across Europe leaders have been convening emergency meetings in response to the events in Paris.

President Joachim Gauck began his speech Sunday by remembering those killed in the Paris attacks and pledging solidarity with the people of France. The great migration has set neighbouring states against each other – the east-west split in the EU over accepting migrants is arguably the biggest threat to the union’s future – and shaken up settled political systems: even Angela Merkel, who has for so long looked like a-near permanent feature of German politics, now looks mortal. “It’s not good”, a 24-year-old tourism student from the northern Syrian town of Hama told AFP on Sunday. “We need life and peace for work”. “I trust the authorities as well as the French people to beat this new ordeal collectively”.

The wider geopolitical fallout of the attacks is much harder to model. Compassion is vital, the victims of Syria’s brutal war can not be forgotten, and it may eventually be possible to resettle many of them inside the EU. “In these tough times we are with the French people”. Indeed, the largest in Europe to date was the 2011 attack by lone Norwegian gunman Anders Breivik.

European Council President Donald Tusk said on his Twitter account: “I follow with shock the attacks in Paris”.

One tweet on Friday night, that has since gone viral, summed up why those calling for tighter borders in the wake of the attacks should rethink assigning blame to asylum-seekers.