Paris attacks death toll rises to 130

It was the second major attack in Paris in less than a year. In January, jihadist gunmen killed 17 people at Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, on the streets and in a Jewish supermarket.

Large crowds converged at the scenes of the attacks and landmarks across the French capital at 9.20pm (8.20pm British time) to hold vigils and mark the exact moment last week that IS militants set in motion a series of co-ordinated attacks.

In Germany, where the threat of a terrorist attack forced the cancellation of an global soccer match Tuesday, politicians studied plans to deploy the army to aid the police and protect possible terrorist targets, including train stations and stadiums.

The Paris prosecutor’s office said the three bodies found in Saint-Denis after Wednesday’s raid were those of Abelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national in his late 20s and believed to have been an orchestrator of the Paris attacks; his cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen, 26; and a third man who was not identified.

A letter in the Huffington Post is signed by dozens of artists, writers, musicians and other cultural figures, including singer Charles Aznavour, journalist Anne Sinclair and former French Culture Minister Jack Lang. Two attackers were also killed.

The letter calls for people to turn on lights, light candles and play music so that the attackers “will understand that they have lost”.

One of the police sources also said Abaaoud had been caught on camera at a suburban metro station, after the shootings and at cafes and restaurants in central Paris but while a massacre in the Bataclan concert hall was still underway.

Under gray skies and rain Friday, Parisians marked the one-week anniversary since the bloodbath.

Many placed candles among the flowers stacked outside the Paris attack sites, while others held hands and reflected on their city’s losses. A gathering Fri.at France’s oldest mosque to show inter-community solidarity was canceled due to safety fears.

“There is a clear link between security of the external borders, the EU’s external borders, and security within the EU”, British interior minister Theresa May told reporters.

Among the measures considered are a database for air travelers in, out of and within Europe, stricter controls at the external borders, both for European Union and non-EU citizens and better intelligence sharing among Europe’s security services.

“The negotiation has taken too long”.

The king of Morocco was on a visit to France on Thursday.

The new tally was announced Friday by the Interior Ministry.

The confirmed death toll in the attacks rose Friday to 130, from 129.

France’s national police chief says that the whereabouts of a key fugitive in last week’s Paris attacks is unclear.

Schengen has come under scrutiny following the revelations that some of the Paris attackers came from Belgium, and that alleged ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud may have come back from fighting with IS in Syria to take part. A bill to extend a state of emergency until February and give the police new powers goes before the upper house of the French parliament later on Friday.

His suicide-bomber brother Brahim Abdeslam blew himself up at a cafe, without killing anyone else.

Salah Abdeslam is being sought as a suspected accomplice in the attacks.

Nine people were arrested in sweeps Thursday in Belgium in connection with the Paris attacks.

Calling the PNR “absolutely vital”, the official said that intra-European flights must also be included into the record, and that the authorities should be allowed to keep passenger information for a longer period of time.

Hours before the UN Security Council passed the resolution authorizing countries to “take all necessary measures” against Daesh, gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital, taking more than 100 people hostage in a siege that left at least 27 dead.