Francois Hollande vows to eradicate terrorism

President of France François Hollande said that the attacks are “in the name of self-defense” after the attacks that killed 132 people and injured hundreds more in Paris on Friday night.

A senior Turkish official has said authorities there flagged him up to their French counterparts in 2014, but received no response from them until after the Paris attacks.

Salah Abdeslam, the man named by police as a key suspect, is said to have rented a VW Polo vehicle that was found near the Bataclan concert hall, where 89 people died, and believed to have been used by attackers.

Authorities have also identified Brahim Abdeslam, a suicide bomber who exploded himself outside a Paris restaurant.

The second identified attacker, Samy Amimour, is alleged to have been the suicide bomber at the Bataclan live music establishment.

The arrest warrant for Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old born in Brussels, called him “very dangerous” and warned people not to intervene if they see him.

The news came after France made an unprecedented demand for its European Union allies to support its military action against IS as it launched new air strikes on the militants’ Syrian stronghold.

A total of 23 people are in custody with seven detainees identified following a massive manhunt that continued on Monday for surviving members and accomplices suspected to be involved in the Paris terror attacks that claimed 129 lives, media reported.

Omar Ismail Mostefai, a 29-year-old French citizen of Algerian origin, had a history of petty crime and was known to have been radicalized.

An anti-Islamic State activist group, Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, said the French strikes hit “Division 17” and “Avant-garde camp” in Raqqa and provided maps of their locations on its Twitter feed. He also addressed a controversial bill that he says will ensure that British authorities have powers to follow terrorist movements by tracking and intercepting communications.

Speaking to reporters, he said the family doesn’t know where his brother is.

Details of how Abdeslam was involved in the attack were not disclosed.

In a solemn address to a joint session of parliament in the Palace of Versailles that began with the words “France is at war”, Mr Hollande said Friday’s attacks were decided and planned in Syria, organised in Belgium and carried out in France.

The death toll from the attacks has risen to 132.

Hollande also said France would scale up a military campaign against the ISIL terrorist group in order to “not to contain it but to destroy it”, mobilizing the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to support the escalating mission.

Abu Kamal is in Syria’s eastern Syrian Dayr Az Zawr region, which the Pentagon has said provides Islamic State with about two-thirds of its oil revenue, one of the largest sources of income for the militant group. Another 104 people were put under house arrest, he said.

Schools in Paris re-opened on Monday, and many museums were due to open their doors in the afternoon after a 48-hour shutdown, but a few popular tourist sites, including Disneyland, remained closed. Belgian police arrested 13 other people though they could not find Abaaoud.