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Paris attacks: woman killed in St-Denis raid 'did not blow herself up' Paris attacks: woman killed in St-Denis raid 'did not blow herself up'
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Closing summaryClosing summary
Raya JalabiRaya Jalabi
One week on, Paris remembersOne week on, Paris remembers
Security in EuropeSecurity in Europe
Bodies found in St-Denis siegeBodies found in St-Denis siege
Suspect on the runSuspect on the run
Arrests in BrusselsArrests in Brussels
See here more on our coverage of the Paris attacks.See here more on our coverage of the Paris attacks.
That’s it from us tonight in New York. Thanks for tuning in.That’s it from us tonight in New York. Thanks for tuning in.
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The atrocities of 13 November, 2015 triggered global condemnation, dramatic manhunts, political questions, military reprisals and expressions of solidarity. Here is a visual guide to the seven days that shook Paris.The atrocities of 13 November, 2015 triggered global condemnation, dramatic manhunts, political questions, military reprisals and expressions of solidarity. Here is a visual guide to the seven days that shook Paris.
Related: Paris attacks – visual guide to seven days that shook the French capitalRelated: Paris attacks – visual guide to seven days that shook the French capital
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The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, spoke on Tuesday at the annual congress of French mayors, held in Paris and attended by 2,000 mayors of all political persuasions:The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, spoke on Tuesday at the annual congress of French mayors, held in Paris and attended by 2,000 mayors of all political persuasions:
It is with a heavy heart that I welcome you today on behalf of all Parisians in the city, afflicted, weeping, grieving, but more determined than ever to live and to live freely. On Friday night, terrorists came to challenge what they hate most: the cosmopolitan, generous, unruly and noisy life of Paris and of St-Denis, united by destiny as a single community.It is with a heavy heart that I welcome you today on behalf of all Parisians in the city, afflicted, weeping, grieving, but more determined than ever to live and to live freely. On Friday night, terrorists came to challenge what they hate most: the cosmopolitan, generous, unruly and noisy life of Paris and of St-Denis, united by destiny as a single community.
It is in the neighbourhoods where all generations, every language and every culture cohabit that they sought to forbid us to live and be vibrant, to talk and to listen, to exchange and to share. What they wanted to kill is our freedom – that freedom that we strive to protect and share in all our towns and cities – that freedom which is at once the air we breathe, the living language we speak and the blood that flows in our veins.It is in the neighbourhoods where all generations, every language and every culture cohabit that they sought to forbid us to live and be vibrant, to talk and to listen, to exchange and to share. What they wanted to kill is our freedom – that freedom that we strive to protect and share in all our towns and cities – that freedom which is at once the air we breathe, the living language we speak and the blood that flows in our veins.
In the spirit of fraternity all municipalities have united to address their condolences to the Republic and to the victims. And it is in this same spirit that together we hope the many injured will recover and live this infinitely precious life of which the terrorists sought to deprive them.In the spirit of fraternity all municipalities have united to address their condolences to the Republic and to the victims. And it is in this same spirit that together we hope the many injured will recover and live this infinitely precious life of which the terrorists sought to deprive them.
Read her remarks in full in English:Read her remarks in full in English:
Related: Paris, our Paris, is suffering but alive | Anne HidalgoRelated: Paris, our Paris, is suffering but alive | Anne Hidalgo
and in French:and in French:
Related: Nous disons à la face du monde: nous n’avons pas peurRelated: Nous disons à la face du monde: nous n’avons pas peur
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#21H20: Mourning outside the Bataclan#21H20: Mourning outside the Bataclan
Luke HardingLuke Harding
At 9.20pm on Friday, Paris didn’t fall silent or weep, writes Luke Harding (@lukeharding1968) from outside the Bataclan.At 9.20pm on Friday, Paris didn’t fall silent or weep, writes Luke Harding (@lukeharding1968) from outside the Bataclan.
Instead, exactly a week after last Friday’s devastating attacks, it exploded into a wave of human sound: cheering, whistling, whooping, clapping. And a burst of reggae, pumped from outside the Bataclan theatre by a yellow van with stereo stacks.Instead, exactly a week after last Friday’s devastating attacks, it exploded into a wave of human sound: cheering, whistling, whooping, clapping. And a burst of reggae, pumped from outside the Bataclan theatre by a yellow van with stereo stacks.
Some held hands and raised cans of Kronenbourg. Others turned up with their kids. From a fifth-floor flat next to the concert venue – where 89 people were murdered last week – a man started singing the Marseillaise. On the pavement below, illuminated by candles, others joined in. It was a defiant affirmation of eternal values: noise, joy, light.Some held hands and raised cans of Kronenbourg. Others turned up with their kids. From a fifth-floor flat next to the concert venue – where 89 people were murdered last week – a man started singing the Marseillaise. On the pavement below, illuminated by candles, others joined in. It was a defiant affirmation of eternal values: noise, joy, light.
In the 10th and 11th arrondissements some had gone drinking, occupying al fresco cafe tables similar to the ones were many were shot dead last week. Some restaurants were full, but others were semi-empty, a sign that the city is not entirely back to normal, and won’t be for some months to come.In the 10th and 11th arrondissements some had gone drinking, occupying al fresco cafe tables similar to the ones were many were shot dead last week. Some restaurants were full, but others were semi-empty, a sign that the city is not entirely back to normal, and won’t be for some months to come.
More on Paris, one week after the attacks:More on Paris, one week after the attacks:
Related: Paris attacks, a week on: Parisians urged to 'make noise and light' and reclaim joie de vivreRelated: Paris attacks, a week on: Parisians urged to 'make noise and light' and reclaim joie de vivre
Related: 'It looked like a battlefield': the full story of what happened in the BataclanRelated: 'It looked like a battlefield': the full story of what happened in the Bataclan
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More details from Belgium (via Agence France-Presse):More details from Belgium (via Agence France-Presse):
Belgium on Friday charged one suspect with involvement in terrorism over the Paris attacks and released one other as part of a separate investigation into suicide bomber Hadfi Bilal, prosecutors said.Belgium on Friday charged one suspect with involvement in terrorism over the Paris attacks and released one other as part of a separate investigation into suicide bomber Hadfi Bilal, prosecutors said.
“The person that was arrested yesterday has been charged by the investigating judge with participation in terrorist attacks and participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation, and placed into custody,” Belgium’s federal prosecutor said in a statement.“The person that was arrested yesterday has been charged by the investigating judge with participation in terrorist attacks and participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation, and placed into custody,” Belgium’s federal prosecutor said in a statement.
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According to AFP, Belgium has charged one suspect linked to the Paris attacks with terrorismAccording to AFP, Belgium has charged one suspect linked to the Paris attacks with terrorism
#BREAKING Belgium charges suspect with terrorism over Paris attacks#BREAKING Belgium charges suspect with terrorism over Paris attacks
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#21H20: Paris remembers, one week on#21H20: Paris remembers, one week on
At the Bataclan:At the Bataclan:
Le collectif #maindanslamain face au #Bataclan pic.twitter.com/ihZY6JfdX7Le collectif #maindanslamain face au #Bataclan pic.twitter.com/ihZY6JfdX7
Devant le Bataclan un sound system balance du Bob Marley pic.twitter.com/dcStw1EeaODevant le Bataclan un sound system balance du Bob Marley pic.twitter.com/dcStw1EeaO
In the Place de la République:In the Place de la République:
A Rėpublique, une ronde contre le terrorisme, juste une semaine après l'horreur #ParisAttacks pic.twitter.com/eHq85ZIozcA Rėpublique, une ronde contre le terrorisme, juste une semaine après l'horreur #ParisAttacks pic.twitter.com/eHq85ZIozc
In front of Le Carillon restaurant, targeted in last week’s attacks:In front of Le Carillon restaurant, targeted in last week’s attacks:
21h20 les passants se donnent la main et entonnent la Marseillaise devant le Carillon, ensanglanté il y a une semaine par les attentats #AFP21h20 les passants se donnent la main et entonnent la Marseillaise devant le Carillon, ensanglanté il y a une semaine par les attentats #AFP
(Above, in English: “9.20pm passers by hold hands and sing La Marseillaise in front of Le Carillon, bloodied last week by the attacks.”)(Above, in English: “9.20pm passers by hold hands and sing La Marseillaise in front of Le Carillon, bloodied last week by the attacks.”)
Applause and calls of "vive le carillon" one week from the attacks. Paris is far from defeated. pic.twitter.com/cApeXq5Lf5Applause and calls of "vive le carillon" one week from the attacks. Paris is far from defeated. pic.twitter.com/cApeXq5Lf5
At La Belle Équipe restaurant, also targeted last week:At La Belle Équipe restaurant, also targeted last week:
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People have been gathering at Place de la République in anticipation of the one week anniversary of the attacks.People have been gathering at Place de la République in anticipation of the one week anniversary of the attacks.
Earlier today, French cultural figures called for everybody to “stand up” at exactly 9.20pm under the hashtag #21H20 – the moment the first attack took place outside the Stade de France stadium – and make noise and light:Earlier today, French cultural figures called for everybody to “stand up” at exactly 9.20pm under the hashtag #21H20 – the moment the first attack took place outside the Stade de France stadium – and make noise and light:
One week on - they dance in the Place de la Republique pic.twitter.com/aGiRXNcwwMOne week on - they dance in the Place de la Republique pic.twitter.com/aGiRXNcwwM
Place de la République, le recueillement se fait autour du symbole de la #TourEiffel @itele pic.twitter.com/lCNrmJGr9qPlace de la République, le recueillement se fait autour du symbole de la #TourEiffel @itele pic.twitter.com/lCNrmJGr9q
Ce soir, à 21h20, toute la Nation française sera avec vous. Nous ne vous oublierions jamais ! ❤️🇫🇷 #ParisAttacks pic.twitter.com/4knmEnKrtwCe soir, à 21h20, toute la Nation française sera avec vous. Nous ne vous oublierions jamais ! ❤️🇫🇷 #ParisAttacks pic.twitter.com/4knmEnKrtw
(The above tweet reads: “Tonight, at 9.20pm, the whole French nation will be with you. We will never forget you”)(The above tweet reads: “Tonight, at 9.20pm, the whole French nation will be with you. We will never forget you”)
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A Moroccan woman has released a video via news website Alyaoum24, claiming that photographs purporting to show Hasna Aït Boulahcen – which have been published by newspapers and websites around the world – are in fact pictures of her.A Moroccan woman has released a video via news website Alyaoum24, claiming that photographs purporting to show Hasna Aït Boulahcen – which have been published by newspapers and websites around the world – are in fact pictures of her.
The Daily Mail was among several publications to print the photos – one showing a woman in a bath and another showing a woman with her two friends whose faces have been blurred out – which they claimed were of Aït Boulahcen. But the Moroccan woman, named only as Nabila, has said that the photograph of the woman in the bath is of her, and was taken at a friend’s house while she was living in France.The Daily Mail was among several publications to print the photos – one showing a woman in a bath and another showing a woman with her two friends whose faces have been blurred out – which they claimed were of Aït Boulahcen. But the Moroccan woman, named only as Nabila, has said that the photograph of the woman in the bath is of her, and was taken at a friend’s house while she was living in France.
It appears that the photographs published by the Daily Mail show two different women.It appears that the photographs published by the Daily Mail show two different women.
According to Alyaoum24, Nabila is from Beni Mellal in Morocco and works at a driving school. Nabila has asked for the relevant authorities to intervene, as the photographs have been disseminated around the world online.According to Alyaoum24, Nabila is from Beni Mellal in Morocco and works at a driving school. Nabila has asked for the relevant authorities to intervene, as the photographs have been disseminated around the world online.
Hasna Aït Boulahcen, the woman who was killed during the St-Denis raid was first believed to have blown herself up during Tuesday’s raid. On Friday, the Paris prosecutor said that she in fact had not blown herself up. A third body found in the aftermath of the St-Denis raid appears to belong to the suicide bomber, according to several French media reports.Hasna Aït Boulahcen, the woman who was killed during the St-Denis raid was first believed to have blown herself up during Tuesday’s raid. On Friday, the Paris prosecutor said that she in fact had not blown herself up. A third body found in the aftermath of the St-Denis raid appears to belong to the suicide bomber, according to several French media reports.
Watch the video in full here (in Arabic):Watch the video in full here (in Arabic):
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Sixty-four suspected hate crimes have been reported in Scotland since the Paris terror attacks last week with at least three suspected to be in direct reaction to the events, the police said on Friday.Sixty-four suspected hate crimes have been reported in Scotland since the Paris terror attacks last week with at least three suspected to be in direct reaction to the events, the police said on Friday.
Related: Police Scotland confirm spike in hate crime after Paris attacksRelated: Police Scotland confirm spike in hate crime after Paris attacks
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Two Paris attacks suicide bombers 'passed through Greece'Two Paris attacks suicide bombers 'passed through Greece'
Two of the three bombers who blew themselves up at a soccer stadium in Paris last Friday had their fingerprints taken on 3 October, while travelling through Greece, the Paris prosecutor said in a statement on Friday.Two of the three bombers who blew themselves up at a soccer stadium in Paris last Friday had their fingerprints taken on 3 October, while travelling through Greece, the Paris prosecutor said in a statement on Friday.
“A new Stade de France suicide bomber, who blew himself up at 21.30pm on Rue Rimet, H Door in St Denis, was formally identified and his fingerprints matched those of someone who passed through Greece on the 3 October 2015.“A new Stade de France suicide bomber, who blew himself up at 21.30pm on Rue Rimet, H Door in St Denis, was formally identified and his fingerprints matched those of someone who passed through Greece on the 3 October 2015.
It was during this same immigration check that the other suicide bomber who blew himself up at 21.20pm at D door of the Stade de France had his fingerprints registered.”It was during this same immigration check that the other suicide bomber who blew himself up at 21.20pm at D door of the Stade de France had his fingerprints registered.”
The original statement from the Paris prosecutor below in French:The original statement from the Paris prosecutor below in French:
🔴URGENT ATTENTATS ENQUÊTE Un autre kamikaze du Stade de France identifié. Avait été contrôlé en Grèce en octobre pic.twitter.com/UzG5EmFfsK🔴URGENT ATTENTATS ENQUÊTE Un autre kamikaze du Stade de France identifié. Avait été contrôlé en Grèce en octobre pic.twitter.com/UzG5EmFfsK
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French Parliament votes to extend the state of emergencyFrench Parliament votes to extend the state of emergency
The French Senate has voted in favour of extending the state of emergency for three months following on from Thursday’s vote in favour of the measure by the lower house of parliament.The French Senate has voted in favour of extending the state of emergency for three months following on from Thursday’s vote in favour of the measure by the lower house of parliament.
The current state of emergency gives more powers to the security services and police to act without judicial oversight. The new beefed-up emergency measures include:The current state of emergency gives more powers to the security services and police to act without judicial oversight. The new beefed-up emergency measures include:
(via Angelique Chrisafis).(via Angelique Chrisafis).
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Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast (Paris est une fête, or Paris Is A Celebration, in French) has shot to the top of French book charts in the wake of last week’s attacks on Paris. The book is currently No 1 on Amazon’s French site, where the retailer says it has temporarily sold out. Copies of the memoir have been left among the tributes to the 129 victims of last Friday night’s attacks, reports Le Figaro. According to the French publisher Folio, orders have risen from an average of 10-15 copies per day to reach 500.
The book has struck a chord with a mood of defiance in the wake of the attacks. This has seen Parisians drinking and eating in restaurants, cafes and bars across the city, and posting about it under the slogan “Je suis en terrasse” on social media.
Written towards the end of his life but only published posthumously, in 1964, A Moveable Feast sees the American author trace his impecunious time in Paris, surrounded by luminaries such as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and James Joyce.
Hemingway wrote:
There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were nor how it was changed nor with what difficulties now what ease, it could be reached. It was always worth it and we received a return for whatever we brought to it.
The demand for Hemingway’s memoir has also been fuelled by a much-shared interview with a Parisian woman named only as Danielle.
It’s very important to bring flowers to our dead. It’s very important to see, many times, Hemingway’s book, A Moveable Feast, because we are a very ancient civilisation, and we will hold high the banner of our values, and we will show brotherhood to the five million Muslims who exercise their religion freely and kindly, and we will fight against the 10,000 barbarians who kill, they say, in the name of Allah,” she said.
Read more here:
Related: Hemingway's Paris memoir rises to No 1 in France following terror attacks
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Hasna Aït Boulahcen was not the St-Denis suicide bomber – Paris prosecutor
The French TV station iTele is reporting that an unidentified man – not a woman – was the suicide bomber who blew himself up on Wednesday during a violent police shoot-out in St-Denis, write Kim Willsher (@kimwillsher1) and Luke Harding (@lukeharding1968):
It was previously believed that Hasna Aït Boulahcen – a 26-year-old French national whose passport was found in a handbag in what remained of the apartment raided on Tuesday – had blown herself up by detonating a suicide vest. She was killed during the battle with police but wasn’t the suicide bomber, the TV station reported.
The Paris prosecutor confirmed this to the Guardian. “All I can tell you is that the kamikaze was not Hasna,” the prosecutor said.
Aït Boulahcen is the cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks. His body was also discovered among the ruins of the terrorist apartment.
On Friday, the Paris prosecutor announced that a third unidentified body was found in the afermath of the raid on the St-Denis apartment. The third body is understood to be that of a man.
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One week after the deadly attacks in their city, Parisians areurged to ‘make noise and light’ and reclaim joie de vivre, write my colleagues Kim Willsher (@kimwillsher1) and Luke Harding (@lukeharding1968):
One week on, abstract horror has given way to particular grief. It has a name, a story. Outside the Bataclan theatre the faces of those killed in last Friday’s devastating attacks in Paris – 130 people – stare out. The p ictures show at a glance that most of the victims were young. Some are smiling, insouciant, with friends and lovers. Others are in suits, as if about to hurry off to work.
Next to the pictures are messages, penned by friends, relatives, well-wishers. One: “To Cédric. My so competent colleague, assassinated by imbeciles, along with so many others.” Another: “To Stephane”, shot not inside the Bataclan,where 89 people perished, but while sitting at home in his studio apartment opposite. A ricocheting bullet hit him in the back.
The garden across the road in Boulevard Voltaire has become a soggy shrine. After a week of superlatively mild temperatures Paris was drenched on Friday in heavy rain. Thousands have come here to show solidarity with the dead, to light candles, and to mutter prayers – a shuffling procession of the stunned and quietly grieving.
[...]The public can be fickle. But on Friday the sentiment among most was that the fun for which France’s capital is famous – especially in its bohemian 10th and 11th arrondissements – should go on. It might not seem like much, but against the horror of the past week, raising a glass of wine and turning up the radio amounts to a declaration of defiance.
A group of artists suggested exactly that. Via social media they published a lyrical appeal to their fellow citizens under the hashtag #21h20. It urged everybody to “stand up” at exactly 9.20pm, the moment the first attack last week took place outside the Stade de France football stadium, one of four suicide bombings to rock the city.
Read the dispatch in full:
Related: Paris attacks, a week on: Parisians urged to 'make noise and light' and reclaim joie de vivre
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Kim Willsher
Toys’R’Us has announced it is withdrawing all toy weapons from its 49 French stores following the Paris attacks, writes my colleague Kim Willsher.
The toy guns will be withdrawn “the time it takes for things to calm down,” said Fréderik Renaud, director of a Toys’R’Us shop in Limoges. Renaud told France Info radio that the ban covered “anything that resembles a real weapon”, so plastic rifles, machine guns and pitols.
He said it concerned around 50 out of the 10,000 different toys in stock.
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Summary
Jessica Elgot
I’m handing over now to my colleague Raya Jalabi to continue our coverage. Here’s what’s happened over the past few hours.
Security in Europe
Bodies found in St-Denis siege
One week on, Paris remembers
Suspect on the run
Arrests in Brussels
4.35pm GMT
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The continuing state of emergency in France has handed extra powers to local authorities, including the power to impose a curfew.
In Sens, a town south of Paris, the curfew will kick in at 10pm and finish at 6am the following day, and will last the whole weekend.
An official explained that only emergency vehicles will be allowed on the road.
Elsewhere, in Yerres, a Parisian suburb, children under the age of 13 have been banned from going onto the streets between 11pm and 6am. Local officials said they plan to enforce this policy until 3 January.
“Above all it’s about protection,” a spokesperson for the Paris mayor said.
At this troubled time, everyone is a potential target. It is important to protect young people and avoid them being alone on the streets at night.
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This is the last picture from inside of the concert hall, from one week ago today, showing the beaming young faces and raised hands of hundreds of young Parisians dancing to Eagles of Death Metal, before the Bataclan became a battlefield.
We now know who those 89 who died were — students, record label staff, architects, journalists, lawyers, aid workers, mothers, fathers, wives and husbands - enjoying a Friday night of music and dancing.
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The city of Paris has opened its website paris.fr for people to post messages, photos and videos, to honour the victims killed in the atrocities a week ago - via the email address noussommes@paris.fr.A selection of the hundreds of thousands of messages of solidarity and remembrance posted online over the past week will be published on the website, which also invites people to communicate using the hashtag #noussommesunis.
On a rassemblé vos hommages, continuez à en envoyer avec #NousSommesUnis ça fait du bien! https://t.co/EZfiJ77vVX pic.twitter.com/OLRDR52N5E
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We reported some days ago of the arrest of an Algerian man detained in a German refugee centre, who purportedly told Syrian refugees in the centre about the atrocities in Paris days before they happened.
Germany’s top prosecutor has just announced it has taken on the case from local staff in Arnsberg, which could suggest that authorities are taking the accusations more seriously.
“We’ve taken the lead in the investigation ... Further investigation will show if the accusations are really true,” a spokesman for the federal prosecutor said.
Ralf Jaeger interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, said on Thursday the suspect was in custody and “not cooperative.”
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Ticket sales of concerts in Paris are 80% down on where they should be this year, according to Prodiss, the union of music promoters.
“It’s been a shockwave,” a spokesperson told AFP who said the estimate had been reached after analysing twenty venues hosting concerts, one-man shows and variety performances in the French capital.
Eighty-nine people died at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where the Eagles of Death Metal were playing last Friday night.