Man charged in Belgium with involvement in terrorist attacks

“They were France. They were shot dead because they were freedom”, Hollande said of the victims.

To be sure, public opinion for now largely favors law and order.

While pledging closer cooperation, Putin also harshly criticized Washington for failing to prevent the downing of a Russian warplane engaged in airstrikes in Syria by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member Turkey on Tuesday – an action which underscored the complex military landscape in Syria, where a sprawling cast of countries and rebel groups are engaged on the battlefield and in the skies overhead, sometimes with minimal coordination.

The Kremlin yesterday said that Western powers were not ready to form a coalition with Russian Federation to fight the jihadists in Syria.

In Belgium, authorities charged a man with “terrorist attacks” as investigators worked to hone in on culprits.

Prosecutors have not given details about a fifth suspect. Prosecutors say who the man sold them to is not yet clear. And they carried on with their lives. Hollande stared straight ahead, before finally rising to speak.

Despite the easing of restrictions, Brussels – home to the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation headquarters – remained under the highest alert level due to what authorities have described as a serious and imminent threat of attack.

“We are calling on all our groups to organise protests in their towns and cities on the same day”.

The world number two, Britain’s Andy Murray, will take on Ruben Bemelmans of Belgium, after Kyle Edmund and David Goffin get the best-of-five tournament started.

Across the country, French citizens honored the victims of the November 13 attacks with a rare display of patriotism, responding to government calls to hang flags outside their windows and snapping selfies with them.

And in response to the extremists who targeted people sitting at cafes, attending a rock concert and a football match, he pledged there would be more songs, concerts and shows, and vowed that the French people would keep going to sports stadiums.

In his speech, President Hollande said France would “do all it can to destroy this army of fanatics”.

On Friday, France said for the first time that Syrian government forces could contribute to a ground campaign against IS.

In a reversal of its previous stance, Germany committed four high-tech reconnaissance fighter planes and logistical help to the fight against ISIS, Spiegel Online reported.

A 39-year-old Moroccan named as Lazez A has also been charged after police found handguns and traces of blood in his auto.

The attacks – claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group – were the worst ever terror attack on French soil, leaving 130 dead and 350 injured.

Pictures of the victims were displayed on a giant screen, the photographs striking for the fact that most were of people under 35.

Hollande, who in January locked arms with world leaders in a show of global unity against terrorism, sat solitary in a hard-backed chair in the cavernous courtyard, the assembled mourners behind him as victims’ names were recited. He is cited Friday by state broadcaster ORF as saying the suspension will last for the next two or three months.

France’s somber homage to the victims bespoke the horrors of November 13. The crowd at the stadium shakily sang France’s national anthem as people filed outside that night; a military band played the Marseillaise again Friday, lingering slightly on the refrain: “Aux armes, citoyens!”