Dying to see a band
About 120 people have been killed in multiple terrorist attacks in the French capital, including about 100 who were taken hostage at a rock concert, according to Paris city officials.
Here is a collection of images and footage from Paris as the situation unfolds.
A policeman helps a blood-covered victim near the Bataclan concert hall. (Reuters: Philippe Wojazer) 
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Paris attacks: Weapons seized during pre-dawn raids, French PM warns more attacks being planned
French police seized “an arsenal” of weapons during dozens of pre-dawn raids against Islamist suspects in the early hours of Monday (local time), as prime minister Manuel Valls warned terrorists were planning more attacks in the wake of Friday night’s atrocities in Paris.
The raids focused particularly on the Lyon area, where police made five arrests and seized a rocket launcher, a Kalashnikov assault rifle, bulletproof vests and handguns.
Mr Valls said authorities have conducted at least 150 house searches in cities around France since the attacks.
Earlier reports had said pre-dawn police operations were carried out in the Paris suburb of Bobigny as well as in Jeumont, close to the French border with Belgium, and in the southern city of Toulouse.
Thirteen raids were carried out around the south-eastern French city of Lyon, a local police source said.
They led to five arrests and the seizure of “an arsenal of weapons”, including a rocket launcher, a Kalashnikov assault rifle, bulletproof vests, handguns and combat gear, the source said.
French media have reported at least six people were arrested in another raid in the Alpine city of Grenoble.
Mr Valls said terrorism could hit again in “in days or weeks to come” and said the attacks in Paris, which killed 129 people, were “planned in Syria”.
He said French intelligence services had prevented several attacks since the summer and police knew other attacks were being prepared in France as well as in the rest of Europe.
“We are making use of the legal framework of the state of emergency to question people who are part of the radical jihadist movement … and all those who advocate hate of the republic,” he said.
“We know that operations were being prepared and are still being prepared, not only against France but other European countries too.”
On Sunday night (local time) French jets launched extensive air strikes on what the government in Paris said were Islamic State targets in the terrorist movement’s stronghold Raqqa.
Prosecutors earlier revealed a growing Belgian connection to the Paris attacks, with officials conceding a poor district in Brussels with past links to international terrorism is a “gigantic problem” and a hotbed for extremism.
A manhunt is also underway for Salah Abdeslam, a Belgium-born man identified as the only surviving terrorist from the attacks.
Seven UK terror attacks ‘stopped’ in last six months: Cameron
British prime minister David Cameron said UK security services had foiled about seven terror attacks since June.
“Our security and intelligence services have stopped something like seven attacks in the last six months, albeit attacks planned on a smaller scale [than Paris attacks],” he told BBC Radio 4.
“We have been aware of these cells operating in Syria that are radicalising people in our own countries, potentially sending people back to carry out attacks.
“It was the sort of thing we were warned about.”
In response to the Paris attacks, Mr Cameron said he wanted Britain to join the fight in Syria to carry out air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants.
He will still need to convince more lawmakers to launch any action and will take a proposal to MPs soon.
Mr Cameron said Britain was engaged in a “generational struggle” against extremism and that he has boosted funding for security services in direct response to the threat posed by IS.
He also said there were “hopeful signs” from Saturday’s talks in Vienna on Syria that progress was being made on how to deal with the IS.
“You can’t deal with so-called Islamic State unless you get a political settlement in Syria that enables you then to permanently degrade and destroy that organisation,” he said.
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Paris attacks: What we know so far
A series of coordinated terrorist attacks ripped through Paris shortly after 9pm on Friday November 13. Here is what we know so far.
What we know about the attacks
- A series of shootings and explosions targeted multiple locations, killing at least 129 people and injuring more than 300.
- The deadliest attack occurred at the Bataclan concert hall, where gunmen killed at least 89 people.
- Gunmen shot and killed dozens of people in separate attacks on multiple Paris restaurants.
- Explosions rocked the area near the Stade de France, where France was playing Germany in soccer.
- Map: See what happened where during the Paris attacks
- Students, parents, newlyweds: these are the victims of Paris attacks
- In pictures: Eyewitnesses describe scenes of terror
- ‘Very calm, very methodical’: Australian survivor describes Bataclan massacre
What we know about the attackers
- At least eight attackers were involved, operating in three separate groups.
- Seven of them died, including six who detonated vests laden with explosives.
- An international manhunt is underway for Belgian-born Salah Abdeslam, who is believed to be the eighth attacker.
- Abdeslam, 26, was questioned and released near the Belgian border soon after the attacks.
- One of his brothers, Ibrahim Abdeslam, was involved in the attacks; he died after detonating his suicide vest on Boulevard Voltaire.
- Another brother, Mohamed Abdeslam, was arrested in Brussels.
- Another attacker was named as Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, who was identified from a severed finger at the Bataclan concert hall.
- Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying they were in response to insults of Islam’s prophet and air strikes in IS territory.
What we know about the investigation
- A Syrian passport found near the body of one of the terrorists was issued to Ahmad al Mohammad, an asylum seeker who had travelled to Europe through the Balkans.
- Prosecutors have revealed wide-ranging Belgian connections to the attacks.
- French police have detained multiple suspects, and continue to hunt for accomplices.
What we know about France’s response
- French president Francois Hollande told the French people “we are going to fight and our fight will be merciless”.
- France launched air strikes against IS militants in Syria.
Paris attacks: Bataclan and other assaults leave many dead – BBC News
People could be seen escaping from the Bataclan concert hall shortly after a series of explosionsFrance has declared a national state of emergency and tightened borders after at least 128 people were killed in a night of gun and bomb attacks in Paris.
Eighty people were reported killed after gunmen burst into the Bataclan concert hall and took hostages before security forces stormed the hall.
People were shot dead at restaurants and bars at five other sites in Paris. At least 180 people were injured.
These are the deadliest attacks in Europe since the 2004 Madrid bombings.
French President Francois Hollande, visibly shaken, called Friday night’s almost simultaneous attacks “a horror” and vowed to wage a “merciless” fight against terrorism.
Paris saw three days of attacks in early January, when Islamist gunmen murdered 18 people after attacking satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a Jewish supermarket and a policewoman on patrol.
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Eyewitness accounts from the scene
The attack on the 1,500-seat Bataclan hall was by far the deadliest of Friday night’s attacks. Gunmen opened fire on concert-goers watching US rock group Eagles of Death Metal. The event had been sold out.
“At first we thought it was part of the show but we quickly understood,” Pierre Janaszak, a radio presenter, told Agence France Presse.
Speaking outside the Bataclan concert hall President Hollande said the attacks were “an abomination and a barbaric act” “They didn’t stop firing. There was blood everywhere, corpses everywhere. We heard screaming. Everyone was trying to flee.”
He said the gunmen took 20 hostages, and he heard one of them tell their captives: “It’s the fault of Hollande, it’s the fault of your president, he should not have intervened in Syria”.
Within an hour, security forces had stormed the concert hall and all four attackers there were dead. Three had blown themselves up and a fourth was shot dead by police.
Attack sites:
La Belle Equipe, 92 rue de Charonne, 11th district – at least 19 dead in gun attacks
Le Carillon bar and Le Petit Cambodge restaurant at rue Alibert, 10th district – at least 12 dead in gun attacks
La Casa Nostra restaurant, 92 rue de la Fontaine au Roi, 11th district – at least 5 dead in gun attacks
Stade de France, St Denis, just north of Paris – explosions heard outside venue, three attackers dead
Bataclan concert venue, 50 boulevard Voltaire, 11th district – stormed by several gunmen, at least 80 dead
The attacks took place at six sites across Paris, mainly in the centre of the city #Paris: Power, horror, and lies
Meanwhile, not far from the Place de la Republique and the Place de la Bastille, three busy restaurants and a bar were targeted by gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs.
Around 40 people were killed as customers were singled out at venues including a pizza restaurant and a Cambodian restaurant, Le Petit Cambodge.
“We heard the sound of guns, 30-second bursts. It was endless. We thought it was fireworks,” Pierre Montfort, a resident living close to Le Petit Cambodge said.
Media captionAmateur footage captured the panic at the Stade de France in Paris, following a reported suicide blast The other target was the Stade de France, on the northern fringe of Paris, where President Hollande and 80,000 other spectators were watching a friendly international between France and Germany, with a TV audience of millions more.
The president was whisked to safety after the first of at least two explosions just outside the venue to convene an emergency cabinet meeting. Three attackers were reportedly killed there.
As the extent of the bloodshed became clear, Mr Hollande went on national TV to announce a state of emergency for the first time in France since 2005. The decree enables the authorities to close public places and impose curfews and restrictions on the movement of traffic and people.
Ben Grant: “There were a lot of dead people… it was horrific” Paris residents have been asked to stay indoors and about 1,500 military personnel are being deployed across the city.
All schools, museums, libraries, gyms, swimming pools and markets will be shut on Saturday as well as Disneyland Paris. All sporting fixtures in the affected area of Paris have also been cancelled, AFP reports.
Police believe all of the gunmen are dead – seven killed themselves with explosives vests and one was shot dead by the security forces – but it is unclear if any accomplices are still on the run.
US President Barack Obama spoke of “an outrageous attempt to terrorise innocent civilians”.
UK PM David Cameron said he was shocked and pledged to do “whatever we can to help”.
The Vatican called it “an attack on peace for all humanity” and said “a decisive, supportive response” was needed “on the part of all of us as we counter the spread of homicidal hatred in all its forms”.
Spectators flooded the pitch of the Stade de France after the France v Germany football match as news of the attacks spread 
Rescuers evacuate people following one of the attacks 
Witnesses have been speaking of “carnage”
Analysis: BBC’s Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas
It’s just 10 months since Paris was the scene of multiple terrorist attacks, first the massacre of staff at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and then a hostage-taking at a Jewish supermarket.
What happened in Paris on Friday night is exactly what Europe’s security services have long feared, and tried to foil. Simultaneous, rolling attacks, with automatic weapons and suicide bombers in the heart of a major European city, targeting multiple, crowded public locations.
The tactics have been used before, in Mumbai and elsewhere. But how they’ve come to Europe is one of many questions that will have to be answered.
Were the attackers French citizens? If so, how they were radicalised, armed and organised – was it in France, in Syria, and by whom? Why weren’t they detected? Is France, after two major attacks this year, uniquely vulnerable or does the carnage in Paris mean all of Europe faces new threats to our public places and events? And if a Syrian link is proven, will France recoil from that conflict or will it redouble its commitment to the fight against radical groups there?
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Paris attackers most likely backed and trained by Islamic State in Iraq or Syria, says security expert
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A security expert says it is “extremely unlikely” that the eight men who carried out the Paris attacks could have done so without military training in Iraq or Syria.
The latest reports out of France suggest there were three teams involved in the weekend’s attacks that left 129 people dead.
Neil Fergus, the chief executive of the security consultancy Intelligent Risk Group, said it appeared the terrorists had a significant support team.
“There’s no doubt that they… certainly had accomplices that had done reconnoitring of those sites, and that means they had logisticians, transport people, they undoubtedly had a safe house, or indeed, multiple safe houses, people who procured the motor vehicles,” he said.
“They had to have transported weapons, not just side-arms of course.
“We know that they had Kalashnikovs, AK-47 long-arms, explosives, TATP explosives themselves have to be transported carefully and of course they were constructed into suicide vests or belts either before being sent to France, or Belgium and then to France, or in France.”
Mr Fergus is certain the terrorists were trained by Islamic State in the Middle East, either in Iraq or Syria.
“There have been improvised training camps in France that the French authorities have detected before, but this type of operation, these types of activities in which these eight perpetrators were involved evidence a great deal more sophistication in terms of training and experience,” he said.
“For example we have eyewitness accounts of the way that they went about their evil business in the theatre, with one person providing very professional cover of the main assailant as he systematically executed people in that theatre.”
He said the type of operation suggested a great deal of sophistication in terms of training and experience.
What modus operandi was used to be able to plan and execute this operation in this way? It has implications for (Australia), and we need to study it carefully.
Neil Fergus, chief executive of the Intelligent Risk Group“It’s not ad hoc training in a forest firing at some targets.
“That’s people who have gone through proper military training, and indeed, as I said before, almost certainly, to do that sort of callous cold-blooded operation, they have been blooded in the fields of Syria or northern Iraq.”
Mr Fergus said it was impossible to be certain, but knowing the very hierarchical, compartmentalised structure of IS, the operation was almost certainly authorised by Islamic State’s senior leadership group in the Middle East.
“It would be almost inconceivable to think that a local cell would be able to gather all of the resources and capabilities, some of which are clearly from offshore, outside of France, to put this together,” he said.
Security lessons for Australia
Mr Fergus said the attack’s success pointed to a failure of intelligence in France.
“What is incredible is that an attack, or a set of attacks of this nature and this complexity, were planned and executed without intelligence services in the region, or indeed in Europe, getting apparently any inkling, any indication that such a scale of operation would be in prospect,” he said.
“The more people that are involved in an operation, the more likely that intelligence services will detect something is afoot.”
Mr Fergus said there were security lessons Australia can learn from the attack.
“I have no doubt that the senior security authorities in Australia, including Duncan Lewis, director-general of ASIO, will be keenly looking to French liaisons to understand their post-event analyses, particularly on whether there had been intelligence that had been missed, or indeed whether the perpetrators have exercised a heightened level of security to such an extent that they did slip under the radar.
“And that has some implications not just for Australia but for the rest of the civilised world.
“What modus operandi was used to be able to plan and execute this operation in this way?
“It has implications for us, and we need to study it carefully.”
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, security-intelligence, defence-and-national-security, france, syrian-arab-republic, iraq
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