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Saint-Denis terrorists were preparing attacks in Roissy and Defense

Updated 11.19.2015 | 9:22 , issued on 11.18.2015 | 3:30 p.m.

The terrorist group of Saint-Denis, covered by an assault  Wednesday, November 18 in the morning, were preparing to carry out attacks: particularly at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport and the shopping center Les Quatre Temps in La Défense (Hauts-de-Seine), according to information from France 2, quoting police sources.“Everything suggests that the commando could take action”, said Wednesday the Paris prosecutor Francois Molins without specifying its possible targets.

FULL TEXT: INFO FRANCE 2

Sarkozy: Too much time has been lost” after Charlie Hebdo

The crisis of migrants it allows jihadists to arrive in Europe?

Nicolas Sarkozy: This is an unavoidable question. Donald Tusk, European Council president, spoke several million people marching to Europe in the hope of being welcomed there. The amalgam between migrants and jihadists would be unbearable. But the mess that puts the Syrian crisis on the borders of Europe is an opportunity for terrorist groups to infiltrate.

The strategy of Barack Obama, based on aerial bombardment, enough?

Nicolas Sarkozy: The strategy of the Americans is too erratic. Shelling without enough experts on the ground to guide missiles, it is a device too weak to be effective. The coalition has not made sufficient advance the situation on the ground. A strategic clarification is needed.When you decide to go to war, we must give ourselves the means to win. This was not the case until now.

Nicolas Sarkozy: The Schengen system is dead. I request a board meeting of European heads of state. They must agree on the duration of recovery controls at our borders. These controls will last until the establishment of a new Schengen. This new Schengen must be preceded by the adoption of a common migration policy, which means a single list of safe countries, harmonization of the retention period for illegal aliens, as well as social aid paid to claimants asylum.

Full Text: Les Republicaines

 

The operation search for  Paris attacks mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud is still in ongoing inSaint-Denis. A woman  in the apartment died setting off a suicide bomb.

The building is situated 8 rue du Corbillon – a small alley overlooking the busy street of the Republic – a few meters from the town center and town hall.

A man in his thirties, claiming to be the owner of the apartment, said that a “friend asked to host two of his mates for a few days.” “I said there was no mattress, they said:” Never mind, “they just wanted water and to pray. I reminded my friend. He told me they were from Belgium. “Before being arrested by police, he claimed” not being aware that they were terrorists.

“A friend of the man said to have slept in the apartment last week said that it was a dwelling in which his friend forced the door, “a sort of squat.” She said the two visitors arrived two days ago.

Brother of Salah Abdeslam advises him to surrender

“I and all my family my strictly condemn any form of violence, said Mohamed Abdeslam BFM TV. We are a family, we think of it. “The brother of Salah and Brahim – who blew himself up Friday evening in the brewery Voltaire counter – then called the most wanted fugitive in Europe to go” so that justice can shed light on this story. ”

Mohamed Abdeslam then spoke about his brother’s lifestyle.

“Salah never failed to fulfill its obligations (Editor’s note: religious), he says. He prayed he was not drinking, he went from time to time at the mosque. He dressed normally, he was not wearing clothing that would suggest that it is a radicaliste (sic). It’s been a long time since Ibrahim Salah and are fasting, it does not allow us living with it to determine whether it is a radicaliste or not.”  

Mohamed Abdeslam, who said he was not aware that Salah had visited Syria, also described his brother as “hard”, “not necessarily violent” and “highly placed”. “We have learned through the media that it had happened, he said. In any case, we did not suspect that our family members were involved in this tragedy.

Police in Saint-Denis on Wednesday morning. Photo credits: Christian Hartmann / Reuters

LIVE – Assault Raid in Saint-Denis against the alleged organizer of the attacks

Police officers were injured during an assault gave Wednesday at 4:30 am Friday in connection with the bombings in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, by the anti-terrorist forces. Police are looking for a man on the run, suspected of being the ninth member of the commando linked to Friday’s attacks.

 

 

Air France flight lands safely at Salt Lake City

An Air France Airbus A-380 was diverted to the Salt Lake City SAL after a bomb threat was phoned in. 

Air France flight 65 departed Los Angeles LAX for Paris with 497 passengers. The aircraft landed at SAL at 7:11 MST. 

Flight 65 departed Los Angeles LAX at 4:04 PST for Charles DeGaulle CDG. Flight 65 diverted to Salt Lake City SAL arrived at 7:11. 

Air France flight from Los Angeles to Paris diverted after bomb threat

 

 

Police search for another assassin

After the attacks of Paris keep the French authorities for possible is yet another previously unknown assassin on the run. So far we had assumed that they were a total of eight bombers. Seven were killed. An eighth, the Belgian-born Frenchman Salah Abdeslam could flee According to the investigation. After him is international wanted list. Wanted also is Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 28 year old Belgian with Moroccan roots.

The French police is now apparently also suspected after that the terrorists had originally planned another attempt in the 18th district of Paris.

The French authorities have so far identified 117 of the 129 fatalities.

No explosives found in Hanover

11/17/2015 23:37 

According to police, a suspicious object has been blown for safety reasons in the Hanover Central Station. “At present we no explosive was also in this object include” the police Hannover writes on Facebook.The closures had already been canceled.”Since the cancellation of the game there were some checks suspicious objects that have not been confirmed all – ie, no explosives found”, according to police.

Germany cancels football match

Terror alert in Hannover: Interior Minister de Maizière was the football match at the last minute to cancel. He did not give details on the reasons – they would “unsettle the population”.

Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière was together with Chancellor Angela Merkel on approach to Hanover, where the two were going to visit the soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands, when he met a serious decision.

In Berlin security sources said shortly afterwards that the crucial clue came from French intelligence. This had been referring to an Iraqi from the Weserbergland. Whether the man is actually been at the stadium, but am still not known. Unconfirmed remained reports that even an ambulance had been searched for explosives.

Fearing a terrorist attack, the international football match Germany has been canceled against the Netherlands on Tuesday evening in Hanover shortly before kick-off due to a threat of explosive assassination. “We have had concrete evidence that someone wanted to ignite an explosive device at the stadium,” said Hanover’s police chief Volker Kluwe.

According to information of the “Bild” newspaper (online) the security authorities received prior to the cancellation of several indications of attack plans. First, there had been indications that a group led by a particular known North Africans could be plotting an attack. It is concretely of explosives, explosive belts, automatic weapons and explosives have been the talk of the access roads. Then the French secret service had warned an Iraqi sleeper who is alleged to have planned an attack on the friendly match.

 

Une voiture suspecte retrouvée à Paris

Après les attentats, les opérations de police se poursuivent. L’aviation française a, par ailleurs, une nouvelle fois frappé Daech dans son fief de Raqqa, dans la nuit. Lundi, à Versailles, François Hollande a fait une série d’annonces devant les parlementaires, appelant notamment à faire évoluer la Constitution.

Nous sommes en guerre

La rhétorique politique a diamétralement changé depuis vendredi soir. Le mot guerre, que nos gouvernants n’osaient plus prononcer, est dans toutes les bouches. Celle du président François Hollande, du Premier ministre Manuel Valls et de manière originale par le ministre de l’Intérieur, Bernard Cazeneuve, qui a parlé d’ « acte de guerre terroriste ».

Faut-il mettre plus de soldats dans nos rues ?

Après l’attaque de Charlie-Hebdo, le chef d’état-major des armées, le général Pierre de Villiers ne cachait pas son inquiétude. L’opération Sentinelle (le versant militaire de Vigipirate) s’était déclenchée, comme cette fois, avec le renfort immédiat de 1 500 hommes, puis de 3 000 en trois jours sur Paris. Le contrat opérationnel, réactualisé dans la Loi de programmation militaire du 28 juillet 2015, est très clair : 7 000 hommes sur la durée, jusqu’à 10 000 pendant un mois (nous y sommes). Cette opération intérieure est surtout dissuasive. Suffisante ?

We are at war

Political rhetoric has diametrically changed since Friday night. The word war, our leaders dared not pronounce, is on everyone’s lips. The president François Hollande, the Prime Minister Manuel Valls and original way by the Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, who spoke of “terrorist act of war.”

Should there be more soldiers on our streets?

After the attack on Charlie Hebdo, the chief of staff of the armies, General Pierre de Villiers did not hide his concern. The Sentinel operation (the military side of Vigipirate) was triggered, as this time, with the immediate reinforcement of 1500 men and 3000 for three days Paris. The operational contract, updated in the military program law of July 28, 2015, is very clear: 7000 men over time, up to 10 000 a month (we are). This internal process is especially deterrent. Enough?

The declared emergency

Just hours after the start of the terrorist attacks, the Council of Ministers, convened at midnight Friday by the president, introduced a state of emergency throughout the metropolitan territory.

This leaves the prefects freedom to make orders to prohibit the movement of people and to establish zones of protection and security. This also allows house arrest anyone deemed dangerous to ban the entry into the territory of anyone deemed suspicious, to temporarily close the theaters or meeting rooms. But that authorizes especially the house searches day and night, to facilitate the investigation of the attacks.

The law on state of emergency dating back to 1955 in connection with the war in Algeria and has been used very rarely in France: in 1958 after the return of General de Gaulle to power in 1961 after the “putsch general” and more recently in 2005, in the Ile-de-France, after the urban riots.

This state of emergency can not be extended beyond twelve days without the vote of Parliament. Francois Hollande said on Sunday in parliamentary officials he wanted it to last three months. The next cabinet will consider a draft amendment to the 1955 Act to review the “perimeter” and “duration”.

However, guided by the West alliance wars are also quite possible without the support of the Alliance, such as the Iraq war or the recent air strikes against the IS have shown. Ultimately, NATO is dependent on the equipment and the staff of the Americans, it does not maintain combat units.

The other question is whether the involvement of NATO would be politically desirable. The alliance could even here again demonstrate solidarity; in theater but negative consequences would probably be feared.

The image of NATO in the Muslim world is still strongly influenced by Afghanistan, not least of operations where killed innocent civilians.

According to the newspaper “Le Figaro” now includes guided by the French secret services Database radicalized people (“fichier pour la prévention of signal et la mondialisation à caractère terroriste Radic”) 11,400 names.

Systematic monitoring of this large number of Islamist potential attackers would not be possible, said recently the anti-terrorism coordinator of the government, Loic Garnier.

Between 20,000 and 40,000 intelligence agents are needed to monitor any potential attackers. The French secret deal after the announced increase in January 6500 officials.