France mourns for victims of terror attack

French President Francois Hollande pledged to eradicate extremist fighters and invited the French to battle terrorism by simply continuing to enjoy the pleasure of their daily lives by going to restaurants and attending sporting and cultural events.

Charge: Prosecutors said a man who had been detained in Brussels had been charged with terrorist murders and participation in the activities of a terrorist group. It took greater than 10 minutes for all 130 names of the Paris victims to be read out.

Families of those killed in the attacks, claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, joined some of the wounded at ceremonies on Friday at the Invalides, the gilded 17th-century complex in central Paris that houses a military hospital and museum and Napoleon’s tomb.

French President Francois Hollande, who stood alone before the crowd assembled at the Invalides, vowed to do everything in his power to “destroy the army of fanatics who committed these crimes”.

Throughout Paris, French flags fluttered in windows and on buses in uncharacteristic displays of patriotism in response to Paris’ second deadly terror attack this year.

Two days after the Paris bloodbath, Abaaoud asked his cousin Hasna Ait Boulahcen to hide him as he prepared more attacks, the witness statement reportedly said.

Many mourners visited the Place de la Republique in Paris throughout the day to pay respects to the victims of the Paris attacks.Reuters/Eric GaillardA woman installs blue, white and red candles, the colors of the French flag, at the Place de la Republique in Paris.

“The ordeal has scarred us all, but it will make us stronger”. “I welcome this new generation”. Basically, Eleanor said, politics were put aside as France remembered the dead. More than 350 people were also injured in the mayhem.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national of Moroccan origin, also boasted of the ease with which he had re-entered Europe from Syria via Greece two months earlier, exploiting the confusion of the migrant crisis and the continent’s passport-free Schengen system, the sources said on Friday.

“It was this harmony that they wanted to break, shatter. Because that’s what they expect, want, that we are angry, divided and I don’t want to be pointing fingers at someone in particular”. He said France would respond to the attacks defiantly, with more “songs, concerts and shows”. The sister of Francois-Xavier Provost, who died in the attacks, lambasted Francois Hollande on her Facebook page for not having shored up internal security in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris last January.