France hunts 2nd fugitive in Paris attacks, urges European Union security aid, launches

“Terrorism will not destroy France, because France will destroy it”, he stated at the end of his speech. They were unable to locate him, the source told CNN.

The raids in Toulouse occurred in the area that was home to Mohamed Merah, who carried out a series of three gun attacks targeting French soldiers and Jewish civilians in 2012, said Bfmtv.

Friday’s “acts of war… were decided and planned in Syria, prepared and organised in Belgium (and) perpetrated on our soil with French complicity”, Hollande told an extraordinary meeting of both houses of parliament in Versailles.

In a powerful symbolic move, the Eiffel Tower reopened to tourists after a two-day shutdown. We’re weeks away conceivably from the possibility of a big transition for Syria, and I don’t think enough people necessarily notice that.

In the fight against the extremists, Hollande said he wanted increased global assistance, and would meet with US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in coming days.

Such a ceasefire would free nations supporting Syria’s various factions to concentrate more on the Islamic State, which is ineligible for the truce and has come under greater military scrutiny since Friday’s attacks in Paris.

Six attackers died after detonating suicide belts and one was killed by police gunfire.

Speaking to reporters after a classified intelligence briefing, Burr also said there is a “strong likelihood” the Paris attacks were directed, rather than just inspired, by the Islamic State group in Syria.

The raids in the city of Lyon in east-central France have resulted in at least five arrested and seizure of weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades, French BFMTV reported. The assault in Paris has killed 129.

Officials now believe at least one other attacker was involved and they were working to identify and track down that suspect, the Associated Press reported, citing three officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to provide details about the ongoing investigation.

Belgian police yesterday donned balaclavas and assault rifles as they mounted a tense hours-long standoff outside Abdeslam’s suspected hideout in the Brussels district of Molenbeek but made no arrests after storming the residence. One brother blew himself up in the Bataclan and was identified from a severed finger, while the third was arrested in Belgium but released without charge.

His lawyer, Nathalie Gallant, said Mohammed Abdeslam “didn’t make the same life choice” as his brothers and had not been “tempted into jihadism”.

Paris police said 16 people had been arrested in relation to the deadly attacks, and police have carried out 104 raids since a state of emergency was declared on Saturday.

Still, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve conceded that “the majority of those who were involved in this attack were unknown to our services”. French troops have deployed by the thousands in support of police to restore a sense of security in one of the world’s most visited cities.