European Union security meeting in wake of Paris attacks

A third body has been found in an apartment raided by police searching for suspects in last week’s Paris atrocity, as the French government confirmed the death toll in the attacks has risen to 130. Bataclan attack, lived for a time in Chartres area, southwest of Paris.

Belgium is keeping in custody two of the nine people detained during a spate of raids on Thursday.

The count does not include any of the attackers who died.

No other details were released.

The 28-year-old Abaaoud was involved in four out of six attack plots foiled in France this year, Cazeneuve said.

He says it’s a “totally new phenomenon”.

The French army now has nearly 112,000 troops and 8,400 civilian employees.

Further proposed measures called for the deployment of 300 troops and more leeway in conducting house raids. They were arrested with five other people. The writers hope the gesture will show, “that culture will continue to shine out and to burnish the light of hope and fraternity”.

It was initially thought Belgian Abaaoud was in the Middle East before French police were tipped off by foreign intelligence that led them to the apartment in Saint-Denis on Wednesday.

His body was found “riddled with bullets” after the raid, the prosecutor’s office said.

Both she and Abaaoud were killed as heavily armed SWAT teams raided the apartment in Saint-Denis early on Wednesday.

Under gray skies and rain, Parisians marked a week since the bloodbath with silence and reflection.

– An anti-terror rally planned for outside the Grand Mosque in Paris has been canceled for security reasons.

The 28-year-old was one of the most wanted men in the world, featuring in numerous propaganda videos for the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria.

Revelations that the terrorists easily slipped through Belgian-French borders have prompted the European Union to table a set of measures at today’s meeting to increase security checks at Schengen-zone external borders and screen European citizens.

Mr Cazeneuve told reporters that a non-EU state had alerted France on Monday that Abaaoud had been in Greece.

May said “we need to see immediate progress”. Officials have said a few may have taken advantage of the large influx of refugees from Syria over the summer to evade normal border controls.

“She was unstable, she created her own bubble”.

Abaaoud is believed to have gotten to know a few of the attackers responsible for the Paris massacre in the Moleenbeek neighborhood of Brussels where he grew up.

“We can’t say anything about the exact geographic situation of that individual”, he said. His brother, Brahim, was killed in the attack (below).

Salah Abdeslam is sought as a suspected accomplice in the attacks and is described by French police as highly risky.

But in the days after the Paris attacks, there has been relatively little reflection about the tradeoffs as the nations most affected, France and Belgium, rushed to put new security measures in place and alter their legal and constitutional structures to give government more flexibility in dealing with threats.

French military spokesman Col. Gilles Jaron said Thursday that French forces have destroyed 35 Islamic State targets in Syria since the attacks on Paris.

Hollande has also called for enshrining the state of emergency law in France’s Constitution, making it easier to declare such a state for longer periods of time without resorting to the more drastic options now available in the Constitution.

France is calling on the European Parliament to tighten the continent’s border the security by allowing tighter checks and sharing airline passenger data.

“My name and picture were all over the news yet I was able to stay in their homeland, plan operations against them, and leave safely when doing so became necessary”, Abaaoud said after supposedly returning to the group’s stronghold in Syria in January.