Paris Terrorist Attack Info- reserved for attack info [no ranting]

[hso]

Many have heard or are hearing the news of a large coordinated series of terrorist attacks on Paris.

This thread is only for presenting the facts about this attack from reliable sources.

No rants or rumors or raving Walter Mitty fantasies will be on topic for this thread.

This thread is limited to providing good information from vetted reliable sources that are slow to panic or bloviate about the Paris attack. Keep the information limited to this incident, don't conjecture or theorize and keep on the topic of the Paris attack.


UPDATE

* Six Separate Attacks in Paris

* The death toll stands at 129, while about 353 are believed to have been wounded, 99 critically.
: 87 at the Bataclan theatre
: 18 at Boulevard de Charonne
: one at Boulevard Voltaire;:
: five at Rue de la Fontaine au Roi; and
: 14 at Rue Alibert.
: More deaths are assumed to be found out.

* Eight terrorists acking in 3 teams have been killed, seven of them blew themselves up with explosives belts. Police are still hunting accomplices. Passports from France, Egypt and Syria discovered on the terrorists. French terrorist appears to have been know as a common criminal that became an extremist was known to French authorities.

PARIS—A series of terrorist attacks across Paris left more than 120 people dead Friday in one of the bloodiest attacks in France’s history, prompting President François Hollande to declare a state of emergency across France and seal off the country’s borders.

The killing spree rocked the city. Militants set off explosions at the Stade de France soccer stadium and opened fire across one of the busiest night-life districts. Most of the killings occurred at a concert hall where a pair of gunmen mowed down spectators and threw grenades into the crowd before being killed in a police raid, authorities said.

“An unprecedented terrorist attack is underway,” Mr. Hollande said in a TV address to the nation. “This is horror.”

 

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/li...ern-paris-live#block-56469c90e4b0ced428cb2822

More than 150 people are feared to have been killed in a series of devastating attacks across Paris on Friday evening.

All the attackers are believed to have died, police say, although authorities continue to search for accomplices who might still be at large.

Shootings and explosions were reported in six locations across the city, including the Stade de France in northern Paris, where two suicide attacks and a bombing took place as the national team played Germany in a friendly football match.

As many as 120 people died after a mass shooting inside the Bataclan concert venue, where three attackers also died after detonating suicide belts.

Shootings also took place in restaurants and other sites in the centre of the city. Precise figures for the dead and injured are not known.

President François Hollande, who was at the Stade de France at the time of the assaults, said:
We are going to lead a war which will be pitiless. Because when terrorists are capable of committing such atrocities they must be certain that they are facing a determined France, a united France, a France that is together and does not let itself be moved, even if today we express infinite sorrow.

 

[jakk280rem]

“To all those who have seen these awful things, I want to say we are going to lead a war which will be pitiless. Because when terrorists are capable of committing such atrocities they must be certain that they are facing a determined France, a united France, a France that is together and does not let itself be moved, even if today we express infinite sorrow.”

-Francois Hollande

 

[FROGO207]

Fox News is reporting ISIS is claiming responsibility for the attacks.

 

[Blackstone]

'Syrian passport found' on attacker

A Syrian passport has been found on the body of one of the attackers, AP reports, citing police sources.

 

[hso]

Some background info on the sites attacked.

PARIS (AP) -- A stadium, a concert hall, a succession of cafes and bars around Paris. Attacks on several sites around the French capital left more than 100 people dead Friday night. Here's a look at some of the targets:

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LE BATACLAN

One of the best-known popular music venues in Paris, the Bataclan attracts a range of bands, and was set to host California-based band Eagles of Death Metal on Friday night.

The attackers first sprayed cafes outside the concert hall with machine gunfire, then went inside and opened fire on the panicked audience, according to the Paris police chief.

As police closed in, they detonated suicide vests, killing themselves and setting off explosions.

The neighborhood around the concert hall, like many of the sites targeted Friday, is known for a vibrant nightlife. The club is on Boulevard Voltaire, in a trendy neighborhood at the intersection of the 10th, 11th and 3rd arrondissements, or city districts.

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STADE DE FRANCE

Two suicide attacks and a bombing were carried out simultaneously near the national soccer stadium, where France and Germany were playing an exhibition match.

The attacks occurred near two of the stadium entrances and at a nearby McDonald's restaurant, according to Gregory Goupil of the Alliance Police Nationale, whose region includes the area around the stadium.

He said at least three people died in the attacks.

French President Francois Hollande, who often attends national matches, was evacuated from the stadium. The 80,000-seat venue was built for the 1998 World Cup.

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LA BELLE EQUIPE

The sidewalk terrace of this cafe on Rue de Charonne was showered in gunfire, killing as many as 18 people, according to the Paris prosecutor.

Emergency workers covered bodies splayed on the sidewalk of the traditional Parisian cafe, whose name is a play on the expression "Le Belle Epoque."

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LE CARILLON and LE PETIT CAMBODGE

Le Carillon, a bar-cafe, and the nearby Cambodian restaurant Le Petit Cambodge were apparently both targeted with gunfire, killing around 14 people and leaving several gravely injured, according to the prosecutor.

They are at the junction of Rue Bichat and Rue Alibert

Witnesses described sounds like fireworks, before they realized the gravity of the situation and tried to find a place to hide, or flee.

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[hso]

AKs were used and all terrorists wore explosives belts of TATP (home made explosive).

Belgian authorities identified the French national that rented the cars used by the terrorists and a car with that person and 2 others was stopped at the border. All 3 are in custody.

The French terrorist was a native of the suburbs of Paris. He had a long history as a criminal and had recently been radicalized and was know to the French authorities as an extremist.

A Syrian passport was found on the ground at the stadium bombing, but they're unsure if it belonged to one of the bombers or was stolen or counterfeit. Authorities are trying to verify. During hostage negotiations at the concert Syria and Iraq were mentioned by the terrorists, but whether they were talking about identities or the basis for the attacks isn't clear.

Returning to the briefing earlier this evening from Paris prosecutor Francois Molins, he gave a minute-by-minute account of how the attacks in Paris unfolded:

9.20pm One victim was killed when the first explosion went off in Saint Denis near the Stade de France during a football match between France and Germany. The body of a terrorist was found at the scene wearing a suicide belt filled with shrapnel.
9.25pm 15 people were killed and 10 injured at Le Carillon bar and Le Petit Cambodge restaurant in Rue Alibert in the city’s 10th district. Terrorists armed with Kalashnikovs were seen pulling up in a black Seat car before opening fire.
9.30pm A second explosion went off outside the Stade de France. The body of another suicide bomber was discovered at the scene with a similar explosive belt.
9.32pm Five people died and eight were injured in a shooting outside La Bonne Biere bar in the 11th district. The gunmen arrived in the same car and armed with similar weapons to the first shooting.
9.36pm 19 people were killed and nine injured at La Belle Equipe restaurant on Rue de Charonne in the 11th district. A black Seat car was spotted at the scene and the gunmen were again armed with Kalashnikovs.
9.40pm One person was seriously injured when a suicide explosive, similar to those used in the other attacks, was detonated inside the Voltaire restaurant in Boulevard Voltaire, 11th district.
9.40pm 89 people were shot dead and “many” injured when three armed men took hostages and opened fire into the crowd during a rock concert at Le Bataclan. The attackers were heard mentioning Syria and Iraq during the massacre. They arrived at the venue in a black Polo car.
9.53pm Third explosion took place on Rue de la Cokerie, near the Stade de France. The body of a third suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt was found at the scene.
12.20am The three terrorists at Le Bataclan were killed. One was shot dead by French police, the other two blew themselves up.

 

[hso]

News on non-French victims showing the breadth of nationalities of the victims.

Where were the victims from?

As more information trickles in about Friday night’s attack, several overseas victims have been identified among the 129 deceased and 352 wounded, as well, of course, as many French people.

This list has been compiled from information from Associated Press, and numbers and details could change.

The victims
Algeria: two Algerians were killed, the official APS news agency said, citing diplomatic sources as saying the victims were a woman aged 40 and a man aged 29.
Belgium: At least three Belgians including a dual French national were killed, according to the Belgian foreign ministry.
Brazil: two Brazilians were wounded in the attacks, president Dilma Rousseff said.
Britain: one Briton was killed, identified as Nick Alexander. The UK foreign office has said “a handful” were feared dead.
Chile: One man and a woman – the niece of Chile’s ambassador to Mexico – were among the dead.
Mexico: two of its citizens lost their lives in the attacks on Friday night. Both held dual nationalities, the foreign ministry said on Saturday. One of the women who holds dual citizenship with the US, is suspected to be Nohemi Gonzalez.
Morocco: one Moroccan has been killed and another injured, according to the embassy in France.
Portugal: two Portuguese nationals are reported to have died, according to the Lisbon government. A 63-year-old national who lived in Paris and worked in public transport was killed near the Stade de France, while the second victim, killed at the Bataclan, was a dual-national born in France in 1980.
Romania: two Romanians were killed, according to the foreign ministry in Bucharest.
Spain: 29-year-old Alberto Gonzalez Garrido was killed while attending the concert at the Bataclan, Spanish authorities said.
Sweden: one person of Swedish nationality was wounded by gunfire and another was killed, according to the foreign ministry, which said it was still verifying the information.
Switzerland: reports that citizens were injured.
Tunisia: Two young Tunisians, sisters who lived in the French region of Creusot and who were celebrating a friend’s birthday in Paris, were also killed, according to the Tunisian foreign ministry.
United States: Twenty-three-year old Nohemi Gonzalez, a student from California was killed in the attacks, her university said. She is thought to also hold Mexican citizenship and could be the second of two women identified by the Mexican government as deceased in the attack. Other Americans are reported to be injured.

 

[hso]

Summary: 3 French brothers in Belgium are identified as being at the core of the Paris attack. One was part of the attack and was identified from a fingerprint from a finger after he was blown up. One is in custody in Brussels. One was briefly held at the French-Belgian border and then let loose and is now on the French most wanted list.

One terrorist is thought to have been a fighter in war in Syria, but whether he was Syrian is unclear and whether he was French is unknown.

From TheGuardian.com

French police have released a wanted notice for an attacker who perpetrated a bloody wave of suicide bombings and shootings in Paris, as evidence mounted of a sophisticated, multinational terror operation with links to at least three European countries and the Middle East.

Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old man born in Brussels, is thought to be one of three French brothers living in Belgium who were involved in the terrorist attacks, the death toll from which rose on Sunday to 132. More than 350 people were injured and more than 90 are still in a critical condition.

French media reported that one of the brothers, named as Ibrahim, died in the onslaught.

Another brother, thought to be Salah, who rented a Belgian-registered VW Polo parked outside the Bataclan concert hall where 89 people died, was stopped briefly by police on the French-Belgian border early on Saturday. He is now on the run, and described by police as dangerous.

A third brother – as yet unnamed – was arrested in Brussels, where at least seven men have been detained since Saturday for questioning by Belgian police. It’s not clear whether he was arrested as a suspected attacker or an accomplice.

Investigators earlier found three Kalashnikov automatic rifles and quantities of ammunition inside a second Belgian-registered car, a black Seat Leon, reportedly rented to one of the brothers and used in the onslaught before being abandoned on a street in the eastern Paris suburb of Montreuil.

It also emerged on Sunday that Iraqi intelligence warned of imminent assaults by Islamic State on countries fighting against them in Iraq and Syria, “through bombings or assassinations or hostage taking in the coming days”, a day before the Paris attacks.

The New York Times, citing French and US officials, reported that the attackers communicated “at some point beforehand” with Isis members in Syria.

Two more of the seven suicide bombers who died in the assaults – at the Stade de France, the packed Bataclan and a string of cafes and restaurants in the French capital’s north-eastern 10th and 11th arrondissements – had also been identified, police said, without confirming their names.

The Paris public prosecutor, François Molins, said in a separate statement that at least three French suicide bombers were involved in the attacks, two of them living in the Belgian capital. The Washington Post named another suicide bomber as Bilal Hadfi, whose nationality was not known but who was thought to have fought in Syria.

 

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* AP reports that Belgian-born extremist has been identified as mastermind.
* Belgium appears to be the planning point for the terrorist attacks.
* Conflicting reports on the capture in Belgium of fugitive stopped and released at the border
earlier.
* Police raids overnight in Belgium.
* Police link suicide terrorist to Syrian passport found near body stadium. Second French terrorist blown up in attack identified by fingerprint.
* Raids in Lyon, Toulouse, Grenoble, Jeumont and Bobigny take place overnight. Further raids this morning. Over 100 carried out.
* Airstrikes target Islamic State stronghold in Raqqa carried out by France. More French airstrikes taking place.


The Bataclan attackers
1. Omar Ismaïl Mostefai, 29, was the first suicide attacker named by French authorities, identified by prints taken from a severed finger.

A Turkish official has told the Guardian that French authorities were tipped off twice about Mostefai by Turkey, but only received an information request about him after the Paris attacks.

2. Samy Amimour, 28, the second suicide bomber at to be named from the Bataclan theatre, was born in Drancy, a north-eastern suburb of Paris.

He was known to French authorities before the attack. Prosecutors say three people in Amimour’s family have been in custody since early Monday.

Stade de France attackers
3. Ahmed Almohamed, 25, a Syrian passportholder said to have travelled via Greece and Serbia, was named as a suicide bomber outside the France vs Germany match. He was born in Idlib, Syria, according to the passport, which matched the bomber’s fingerprints, French police said.

4. Bilal Hadfi was named by both Belgian media and the Washington Post as the other attacker at the stadium, believed to have fought in Syria over the past year.

Boulevard Voltaire attacker
5. Ibrahim or Brahim Abdeslam, 31, carried out the suicide attack at the Comptoir Voltaire cafe, according to French prosecutors, was a French national based in Belgium.

Suspect on the run
5. Salah Abdeslam 26, the subject of a wanted notice by French police. He is suspected to have rented a car used by the group who attacked the Bataclan and is the brother of Ibrahim.

The ‘mastermind’
Belgian extremist Abdelhamid Abaaoud has been named by French officials as the mastermind of the suicide bombings and shootings in Paris. He is understood to be in Syria.

The militant, also known as Abu Umar Al-Baljiki, has appeared in Islamic State propaganda.

 

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* Planned in ISIS held Syria - French officials have named Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan origin, is said to have been instrumental in organising and executing the deadly series of suicide bomb attacks and shootings by Islamic State terrorists. He has been on the run since a police raid on a suspected Isis cell in Verviers in January. Currently understood to be in Syria, Abaaoud was first named by police as a wanted extremist after a gun battle in eastern Belgium in January during a raid on an Isis cell. That security operation was believed to have destroyed a cell plotting to assassinate Belgian police officers while Abaaoud was also linked by French officials to the thwarted attacks on a Paris-bound high-speed train in August and a foiled plot to attack a church in Paris in April. The militant, also known as Abu Umar Al-Baljiki, has appeared in Islamic State propaganda.

* Staged in Belgium - Cars and equipment linked to cell in Brussels Belgium through records of the cars.

 

[kcofohio]

Unknown Numbers Involved in Attacks

Just a short online report.

The number of people involved in Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris is still not known, and accomplices may still be at large in France and Belgium, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said in an interview with France Inter radio station Tuesday.

New attacks may occur and the terrorist threat will continue for some time, Valls said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-17/france-s-valls-says-number-involved-in-attacks-still-not-known

 

[Double Naught Spy]

In this first link are two vids from Bataclan. The first records the initial shots. The second records people fleeing exits sometime after. Note the second video is a bit gruesome.
http://clashdaily.com/2015/11/watch...eo-of-the-bataclan-massacre-in-paris-graphic/

Note that at least one was using a laser.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/11...-kept-kicking-leg-believed-he-was-dead-274727

 

[kcofohio]

Seven terror suspects were arrested Wednesday
morning and two others were killed, including a
woman wearing a suicide vest who blew herself
up, after police stormed a suburban Paris
apartment targeting the alleged mastermind of
last Friday's massacre in the French capital.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/18/gun-battle-reported-as-french-police-launch-anti-terror-raid-on-paris-suburb/

 

[hso]

Paris attacks ringleader confirmed dead in St-Denis raid
* The French prosecutor’s office confirms that Abdelhamid Abaaoud is the man killed in the raid on St-Denis yesterday - formally identified at the Rue de Corbillon in the Paris suburb, using skin sample.
* Police sources have said Abaaoud’s cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen was the woman killed in the raid, believed to have blown herself up
* Identification took longer than expected because the entire third floor of the building collapsed during the raid
* Additional raids in Belgium continue searching for accomplices.

 

[old lady new shooter]

AP reports:

France has extended a state of emergency — which allows police raids, searches and house arrest without permission from a judge — for three months, and on Saturday extended a ban on demonstrations and other gatherings through Nov. 30, when a U.N. climate conference with more than 100 heads of state is scheduled to start.

All the usual markets in Brussels were canceled Sunday and the minister of education, Joelle Milquet, told Le Soir newspaper that there was a 50 percent chance schools would be closed Monday.

 

[old lady new shooter]

Salah Abdelslam again managed to evade police, and is now reportedly either enroute to or in Germany.

See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...des-Belgian-police-and-heads-for-Germany.html