‘France is at war’: Hollande urges more security spending & stripping of

The news comes just a day after Prime Minister Manuel Valls also said that the country was “at war with terrorism” following the French Police decision to raid 168 homes over the weekend.

The address marked the first time in more than six years that a French president addressed both houses of parliament, the Senate, and the National Assembly. “The terrorists can strike again”.

He was apparently spoken to by officers on Saturday morning when they pulled over a auto carrying three people near the Belgian border. He added that guns, bulletproof vests and even a rocket launcher had been seized.

Several police were wounded in the anti-terrorism raid, said a source close to the operation, which began before dawn in the suburb of Saint Denis. “The response of France will be total”.

As he spoke, thousands gathered around candlelit memorials at the Place de la Republique square and beneath the Eiffel Tower, which like many top attractions in one of the world’s most-visited cities reopened for business Monday in a defiant spirit.

The latest ISIS video praising Friday’s terror attacks in Paris features a vow by one fighter to attack America – specifically, Washington, D.C.

The president announced to table a bill to extend the state of emergency by three months.

“We know that operations are being prepared and are still being prepared, not only against France but other European countries too”, he said on RTL Radio.

Authorities also expanded a massive manhunt for any potential accomplices – with one Salah Abdeslam in the crosshairs.

Five of them were later released, including Mohammed Abdeslam, the brother of two suspects – Brahim Abdeslam, killed during the attacks, and Salah Abdeslam, who is on the run. NBC News learned that Abdeslam signed the rental auto papers for one of the cars used by the attackers. One of his brothers died detonating a suicide vest. All three gunmen in the January attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket in Paris were French. An worldwide arrest warrant was issued for him after he apparently breached a court order in autumn 2013. France has been more aggressive than the United States in pushing for punitive measures against Assad’s government: It led the call for airstrikes against his regime following his alleged use of chemical weapons in 2013 and has been aiding anti-Assad rebel groups since 2012. He was tied to the Stade de France stadium bombings by fingerprints which match those taken by authorities in Lefos, Greece, who met a boat from Turkey on October 3.

USA officials say they are in discussions with allies, including from Arab nations, to also increase their roles in the air campaign.

Another, said to have been identified by the print on a recovered finger, was 29-year-old Frenchman Ismael Mostefai, who had a record of petty crime and had been flagged in 2010 for ties to Islamic radicalism.

These details stoked fears of homegrown terrorism in France, which has exported more jihadis than any other in Europe, and seen many return from the fight.