Vatican : terrorist madness
November 14, 2015 10:15The Vatican has the series of attacks in Paris Saturday described as " terrorist insanity."
The Vatican has the series of attacks in Paris Saturday described as " terrorist insanity."
The members of the American band Eagles of Death Metal (EOMD) survived the attack at the Paris Bataclan theater. The band says, among other things on his Facebook page. The management of EOMD had previously via several social media know all band and crew members were taken to safety.
An explosion in a house in Kassel, Germany (Hesse) are life threatening Saturday two men injured. The semi-detached house collapsed partly. The victims were taken, according to the police by rescuers from the rubble. The other occupant of the house was not injured.
The concert rock band U2 Saturday would give in Paris has been postponed. The band following the attacks in the French capital in concert with concert promoter Live Nation and HBO, which would broadcast the show, decided not to intervene.
China also condemned the attacks in Paris. President Xi Jinping did that during a telephone conversation with French President Francois Hollande. In addition, he said, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry that China is willing to France and to help the international community in the fight against terrorism.
The new World Trade Center in New York on Friday to show his sympathy for Paris. The top of the skyscraper was illuminated in the colors of the French flag : blue, white and red. In the coming days the tower colors.
France mobilizes another 1500 soldiers in the fight against terrorism. This has the Elysee Palace reported Saturday. Friday nights were already 200 soldiers sent on the road.
The French newspapers devote their front pages Saturday and websites fully comply with the attacks in Paris. Le Monde writes: " France hit by unprecedented attacks Terrorist massacre center in Paris. ".
The G20 meeting in Antalya, Turkey is probably usual. Nineteen economic powers and the European Union are meeting Sunday and Monday. Among the participants are leaders of countries like the United States, China, Russia and Japan.
As far as is known, no organization claimed responsibility for the series of attacks in Paris Friday. The French government has also announced no identity of the eight terrorists dead.
The bombers in the musical Bataclan in Paris were very young and performed very measured steps. The radio journalist Julien Pearce of the radio station Europe 1 said Saturday. He was in the hall during the performance of the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal when the attack took place.
When the attacks Friday in Paris eight terrorists were killed, of whom seven themselves at various locations with explosives blew up. The eighth was shot dead by police. That is justice in the French capital said Saturday.
President Hassan Rouhani of Iran has canceled his visit to France in connection with the attacks in Paris. That the Iranian Foreign Ministry announced Saturday.
The Dutch Suzan Yucel did not escape the attacks in Paris. She wanted to eat at the restaurant Le Petit Cambodge, where gunmen while later the guests took under fire.
"We have fled. When we left, we stepped over the corpses away. You understand it, it was a nightmare. " This is an eyewitness, one Louis, that Friday night with his mother managed to get away from the Bataclan concert hall, said on news channel France Info.
In the Paris Bataclan theater, according to French media hundred deaths during the hostage of terrorists. This emerged after the storming of the theater by special police units.
Former VVD minister Ed Nijpels with his wife is a weekend in Paris and was eating in a restaurant just a few hundred meters from the palace of the French president when the attacks occurred.
The mother of the eight dead babies were found in a German home, was arrested. The 45- year-old woman was found Friday night in a guesthouse. The police and the judiciary published in Bavaria.
French President François Hollande does not go to the G20 meeting in Turkey Sunday and Monday. This was reported by the presidential palace in Paris Saturday.
French terror fighters were for months afraid of a series of attacks like Friday in Paris. This has a senior staff member of the French security services, which will not be mentioned by name, told the newspaper Le Figaro.
Belgium will carry out checks after the attacks in Paris on the French border, a spokesman of the Belgian government told Reuters. Also examined the rail and air traffic.
French President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls visited in the night from Friday to Saturday at Bataclan theater. That left the presidential palace in Paris.
French airports not close because of the attacks in Paris on Friday. That the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. Also trains continue driving. Earlier it was announced that the French borders were closed. President François Hollande has declared a state of emergency throughout France.
The police now assails Bataclan theater where several hundred people hostage. During the attack two terrorists were slain.
France, the state of emergency declared after the attacks in Paris. All borders are closed, the army is deployed where needed. It is the sixth time in French history that the government take such a drastic step. An overview of the previous emergency conditions :
Five subway lines in Paris were shut down following the attack, the police has said. These are lines that run through the tenth and eleventh arrondissement. In those areas have been several shootings. The bus traffic in the neighborhoods is flat.
French organizing citizens via Twitter assistance to each other in danger in Paris. With the hashtag #portesouvertes (open doors) is host to people from the potentially dangerous streets to leave. People report on their Twitter address and the code that the inputs of French apartment buildings are often protected.
US President Barack Obama has condemned the attacks in Paris Friday. He called it a " disgraceful attempt to terrorize people." Obama said the United States to monitor the situation closely and France where it can will help. "France is our oldest ally. The French and American people have always stood shoulder to shoulder," Obama said. They stressed that the US also now stand behind France "in the fight against terrorism and extremism."
British Prime Minister David Cameron Friday said he is shocked by the attacks in Paris and pledged assistance to the authorities in France. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the French people," twittered Cameron. "We will do everything we can to help. "
Germany is " shocked and dismayed " by the attacks in Paris Friday. "We are on the side of France," let the State Department know in Berlin. Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was Friday with French President Francois Hollande at the football match France- Germany, when the terrorist attacks, partly outside the stadium.