President Hollande says France to intensify strikes in Syria
Isis apparently releases propaganda film
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Mastermind named as Belgian jihadi
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1.25am GMT
The shield of a member of the BRI - a French police force special unit - after the assault on Bataclan.
Bouclier de tête de la BRI lors de l'assaut au Bataclan (document @20Minutes) #ParisAttacks #AttentatsParis pic.twitter.com/wlwmGrDN6w
1.14am GMT
UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien has urged members of the Security Council not to squander momentum to end the Syrian conflict, AP reports.
O’Brien pointed to the 13.5m people in need of aid, the more than 4m Syrians seeking refuge, and the continuing indiscriminate use of weapons.
He said some 400,000 Syrians have made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean this year representing over 50% of those heading to Europe by sea and without a political settlement, more will follow every day even as winter approaches.
12.57am GMT
Katie Healy, the girlfriend of Irishman David Nolan, who was shot and injured at the Eagles of Death Metal concert, has told RTÉ News of their ordeal at the Bataclan.
I felt a splash on my shoulder while I was watching the concert and I turned to David thinking it was someone spilling a drink. We then heard gunfire and [saw] sparks and flashing. We realised what was happening and the crowd fell to the side. Everybody got up to run and gunshots started again, so we lay on the ground among the bodies of everyone who stood with us and just played dead.
We’re not sure exactly at what point David was shot. He threw himself on top of me twice - both times when we fell - and covered me making sure my head and chest was covered as best as he could. It became quiet and you could hear everybody moaning, and single shots started to fire and we realised the gunmen were walking around killing everyone laying there with us.
Katie Healy tells RTÉ News both her and her boyfriend are 'beyond lucky' to survive Paris terror attacks https://t.co/j7pwAjCcHT
12.40am GMT
A friendly international football match between Belgium and Spain has been cancelled due to the attacks. The already sold-out game was scheduled for Tuesday in Brussels, but the Belgian Football Association has said the security risk to players and fans was too great.
“We regret very much that such a friendly match between two highly motivated teams must be canceled so late and understand that many fans will be disappointed,” said a statement on the Belgian FA website.
12.11am GMT
Here is what we know so far:
12.01am GMT
Two weeks ago, the mayor of Molenbeek ordered the closure of a neighbourhood bar where Brussels police had found young men dealing drugs and smoking dope over the summer, Reuters reports.
Brahim Abdeslam’s journey from barkeeper to suicide bomber remains a mystery, along with the whereabouts of his younger brother Salah, now on the run as Europe’s most wanted man but until recently the manager of Brahim’s bar, Les Beguines.
The brothers sold the business just six weeks ago.
Related: Paris attack suspects: what do we know about them?
11.42pm GMT
Twitter account @EnMémoire (In memory) has been posting the names, ages, nationalities and photos of the victims of Friday’s attacks, with short tributes to them:
Juan Alberto González Garrido, 29, Spain. An engineer who lived in Paris, married his wife this summer. #enmémoire pic.twitter.com/F0eMRBwkKl
Asta Diakite, France. Her cousin, footballer @Lass_Officiel, called her his "big sister." #enmémoire pic.twitter.com/ghUx7eQqq9
Thomas Ayad, 32, France. Worked in the music industry, loved rock & roll. "The coolest guy on earth.” #enmémoire pic.twitter.com/SoaUoXuZvp
Related: Architect, student, engineer and critic among identified Paris attack victims
11.25pm GMT
The first thing Jean Jullien did when he heard about the Paris attacks was reach for paper and his paintbrush, and sketch a simple image on his lap. Late on Friday evening, he posted it on to his Instagram and Twitter pages: a quick doodle of the Eiffel tower inside a circle, in an adaption of the peace symbol originally used by the nuclear disarmament movement.
Related: How Jean Jullien's simple doodle spread around the world
11.13pm GMT
In the US, privacy advocates reacted with outrage after NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton and CIA director John Brennan separately declared that the attacks in Paris ought to encourage tech companies to create “back doors” into encryption.
Brennan cited “technological capabilities” that made it difficult “for intelligence services to have the insight they need” and said he hoped the events in Paris would be “a wake-up call”.
10.59pm GMT
François Hollande’s historic Versailles speech – in which he hammered home that France was “at war” and promised to “eradicate terrorism” – was the most martial performance he has ever given. It marked the completion of an intriguing transformation that has taken place over several years: of the socialist who was once derided as a soft, conflict-avoidant, blancmange-like “marshmallow” into a self-styled “chief of war”.
Hollande’s blistering war-talk, security clampdown, and vow to destroy Islamic State across the world marks a sharp turnaround for the French left and will inevitably be compared to George W Bush’s political rhetoric after America’s September 11 attacks. But the Bush comparison does not stand up entirely – the French context of homegrown terrorism makes matters far more complex and nuanced. “We’re not in a war of civilisation because these killers don’t represent one,” said Hollande. “We’re at war against jihadi terrorism.”
10.48pm GMT
After earlier reports that Isis had threatened an attack on Washington, right-wing terrorism analyst Rita Katz has – surprisingly – called for calm:
Such rallying threats are routine in ISIS releases after it pulls off attacks (and even when it doesn’t). IS releases, as well as chatter from its fighters, have long called for lone wolf operations inside of America, claiming that they will eventually place the group’s black flag atop of the White House.
[...]Given the magnitude of the Paris attacks, I’m sure there are plenty of similar releases yet to come from the group. There is no doubt a strong link between words and actions when it comes to IS, and these threats that must be taken seriously. But, despite the power that such releases might have, they are nothing new, and we shouldn’t mistake rhetoric for legitimate intelligence.
10.28pm GMT
More pictures of the Tricolore in Paris ...
Le Secrétaire d'Etat @JohnKerry & @USAmbFrance illuminent @USEmbassyFrance aux couleurs de la France pic.twitter.com/BNNqaUzotD
#Brussels City Hall lit up in Bleu Blanc Rouge, French flag colors tonight #ParisAttacks #Molenbeek #Belgium #France pic.twitter.com/Qln2ShWarB
10.09pm GMT
The UN has said that refusing refugees after the Paris attacks is not the “way to go”, amid calls to scale back plans to accept refugees by politicians from eastern Europe to North America.
At least 15 states have expressed resistance to accepting Syrian refugees attempting to flee their country’s civil war, and the list is rapidly expanding. Several governors are working to prevent refugee resettlement in their state directly, while other governors and several members of Congress are urging federal action.
Michigan governor Rick Snyder was among the first to initiate the resistance campaign, suspending his state’s Syrian refugee resettlement program. The move was an about-face for the governor, who had held out his state as a haven for resettling refugees, particularly those from Syria.
9.56pm GMT
A French Muslim students association, Étudiants Musulmans de France, released a video on Sunday condemning the deadly Paris attacks, and expressing solidarity with those affected by the violence.
The video has been making the rounds on social media using the hashtag, #NousSommesUnis (We Are United, in English), and has been viewed more than 200,000 times.
9.41pm GMT
“I was held hostage by Isis. They fear our unity more than our airstrikes”, writes Nicholas Henin, a French journalist who was held captive by Isis for 10 months:
As a proud Frenchman I am as distressed as anyone about the events in Paris. But I am not shocked or incredulous. I know Islamic State. I spent 10 months as an Isis hostage, and I know for sure that our pain, our grief, our hopes, our lives do not touch them. Theirs is a world apart.
Most people only know them from their propaganda material, but I have seen behind that. In my time as their captive, I met perhaps a dozen of them, includingMohammed Emwazi: Jihadi John was one of my jailers. He nicknamed me “Baldy”.
Related: I was held hostage by Isis. They fear our unity more than our airstrikes | Nicolas Hénin
9.33pm GMT
Citing a government source, AFP has said that French nationals returning from Syria may be put under house arrest:
#BREAKING French nationals returning from Syria may be put under house arrest, government source says
9.28pm GMT
French police have just conducted a raid in the Neudorf neighbourhood of Strasbourg in northeastern France, where witnesses were thought to have spotted Salah Abdeslam, the fugitive suspect.
The residents of the building were confined to the gymnasium, but Abdeslam wasn't found, according to local radio France Bleu Alsace.
Opération de police en cours à #Strasbourg Neudorf #SalahAbdeslam aurait été vu ds un immeuble du quartier. Habtts confinés dans un gymnase.
#Strasbourg : opération finie au Neudorf #SalahAbdeslam ne s'y trouve pas https://t.co/3AFgw3WV1U pic.twitter.com/orEHX6DR4b
9.24pm GMT
Le Figaro is reporting that French police have found an apartment has been found in Bobigny, a northern suburb of Paris which was also the site of pre-dawn raids on Monday morning.
According to our information, after having searched the GPS on the Seat Leon, investigators located an apartment in Bobigny which was rented, according to the landlord, to Brahim Abdeslam, one of the named perpetrators of Friday night’s attacks. He had been using it for a week prior to the attacks. The police found mobile phones and sim cards, indicating this could be the location where the attackers came together before launching the attacks on Friday.
9.11pm GMT
With every new piece of information that has come to light about the perpetrators of the Paris attacks, it has become clearer that the intelligence services in France and Belgium knew about their jihadi backgrounds.
Several had dossiers identifying them as radicals. At least five had travelled to fight in Syria and returned to homes in France or Belgium. They were dots on the radar screen but the security services failed to join them up and so overlooked the gathering conspiracy.
8.49pm GMT
US secretary of state John Kerry arrived in Paris on Monday to pay respects to the victims of the Paris terror attacks, and to highlight Washington’s support for a key ally in the way against Isis.
Saying the United States and France were “not only friends, we are family,” Kerry vowed to keep up the fight against Islamic State.
8.39pm GMT
The UN security council observed a minute of silence for victims of the Paris attacks:
#UN - #UNSC observes a minute of silence for the victims of the #ParisAttacks #AttentatsParis pic.twitter.com/73uRlP8aDE
8.22pm GMT
One stateless group has declared war on another: Anonymous has said it will launch cyber-attacks on Isis. “Expect us,” said a figure wearing a Guy Fawkes mask in a French-language video uploaded to YouTube on Monday.
Through its many social media arms, the hackers’ collective has claimed to be “better hackers” than Isis, and accused companies including San Francisco-based CloudFlare of providing technical assistance to Islamic State. In particular, CloudFlare appears to be providing its security services to the militants’ media centre, al-Furqan. On Monday, a pop-up appeared on an al-Furqan site saying that it was “currently offline”.
8.09pm GMT
The alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdel-Hamid Abu Oud, was born to a Moroccan immigrant family 28 years ago in Brussels, write my colleagues Ian Black and Josh Halliday.
His real name was not widely known until it was publicised by French officials on Monday allegedhe was the mastermind of Friday’s attacks in Paris.
[...] In an interview this year Abu Oud spoke confidently of the battle to “terrorise the crusaders waging war against the Muslims”.
Related: Abdel-Hamid Abu Oud: alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks
8.00pm GMT
The only Irish national shot and wounded in the Bataclan Theatre has been named as 32-year-old David Nolan from Cork City.
He has had surgery for a gunshot wound to his leg but is now described as being in a stable condition. Nolan and his girlfriend were attending the Eagles of Death Metal concert on Friday night. Ireland’s Foreign Minister Charles Flanagan confirmed the only Irish victim of the shooting and suicide bomb attacks at the gig was in a stable condition in hospital. Flanagan said officials from the Irish Embassy in Paris and his department in Dublin were in close contact with the man and his family. The Minister added:
7.50pm GMT
Wondering how to talk to your children about the Paris attacks? My colleague Anne Perkins has written an insightful how-to:
It depends on their age, of course, but it seems to me that if a 9-year-old seems not to have heard about Paris, then leave it that way. On the other hand, a tempting conversational gambit like “how was your day?” may not reveal the whole truth. In my experience, that moment before lights out is the moment when some really searing observation can upset your equilibrium as well as theirs.
At that point you have to stop and listen. Try to get them to explain what they know, and why it’s scary. Acknowledge that it is reasonable to be scared and horrified. Only after, with your help and encouragement, they have talked through all their anxieties do you come back with the message you may have been bursting to hit them with from the beginning, the one about probability and risk. After all, you are much more likely to be run over by a car than to be the victim of a terror attack.
7.38pm GMT
With French jets pounding the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, US planes targeting its oil tankers and Kurdish forces splitting a supply line from Mosul to Raqqa, the past three days have been among the most difficult that the terror group has faced in its self-declared caliphate.
As the dust settles, Isis’s hold on its original territory and revenues is, perhaps for the first time, showing signs of slipping. The group has lost control of the highway linking the two main hubs of its heartland. And the parallel oil trade, which had generated as much as $40m (£26m) a month even while refineries were being bombed, is now in jeopardy.
Related: Isis 'caliphate' setbacks may matter less to group as it changes tack
7.20pm GMT
Buried in President Hollande’s earlier sombre speech to both Houses of Parliament is a warning that the European Union could unravel under the twin impact of the terrorism and immigration crises. France has already re-erected national border controls within the 26-country free-travel Schengen zone which has never been under greater stress.
Hollande announced a further 1,000 national border control staff, underlining that Schengen has been suspended and raising questions about its survival as one of the biggest acts of European integration.
7.13pm GMT
Welcome to our continuing coverage of the aftermath of the attacks in Paris. Here’s what we know so far:
7.09pm GMT
The French prime minister, Manuel Valls, said on Monday that France will limit the events to core negotiations and will cancel planned marches and concerts in the wake of the attacks.
This despite the fact that no foreign leaders had asked France to postpone the 30 November-11 December summit, which would amount to “abdicating to the terrorists”, Valls said.
7.09pm GMT
Uefa has announced that the Euro 2016 football tournament will remain in France. The country’s hosting of the tournament has come under scrutiny since Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris.
“The Euro final draw will go ahead as scheduled on 12 December at the Palais des Congres in Paris and the final tournament will be played in France from 10 June to 10 July 2016.”
7.09pm GMT
Mohamed Abdeslam, the brother of two suspects linked to the attacks on Friday in Paris was released by Belgian police this afternoon after several hours in custody. He spoke to the press in the eastern Brussels suburb of Molenbeek:
He grew up here, He studied here,” Mohamed said of his brother Salah, the fugitive suspect, in Molenbeek, Belgium. “He’s a completely normal boy.”
Mohamed said he had been accused of taking part in terrorist acts after his arrest on Saturday, but that the investigating magistrate had believed his alibi for Friday evening. “There are plenty of people in the borough who know me, who know what I’m capable of and what not.” His parents, he added, were “in shock.” He said that like everyone else he had learnt of the atrocities from television. “I am affected by what happened ... I think of the victims, of the families of the victims. But you will also understand that we have a mother, we have a family.”
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