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WORLD NEWSSaturday 21 November 2015
1 week after attacks, defiant Parisians honor the dead
KARL RITTER Belgian Army soldiers patrol in the picturesque Grand Place in the center of Brussels on Friday, easier to track the move-
LORNE COOK Nov. 20, 2015. ments of jihadis with Euro-
Associated Press pean passports traveling to
PARIS (AP) — A week after Associated Press and from warzones in Syria.
the deadliest attacks on “We must move swiftly and
France in decades, shell- only one attacker had him as Ahmad Al-Moham- been identified, while a with force,” French Inte-
shocked Parisians hon- been registered in Greece, mad, though it’s unclear manhunt is underway for rior Minister Bernard Caze-
ored the 130 victims with an entry point for many of whether it was authentic. one suspect who escaped, neuve said. “Europe owes
candles and songs Friday, the hundreds of thousands The five other attack- Salah Abdeslam, 26. French it to all victims of terrorism
knowing that at least one of migrants seeking asylum ers who died had links to police stopped Abdeslam and those who are close to
suspect is still at large and in Europe. That man carried France and Belgium. One the morning after Friday’s them.”
fearing that other militants a Syrian passport naming of the seven dead has not attacks at the Belgian bor- Cazeneuve said the 28-na-
could be slipping through der but then let him go. tion bloc must move for-
Europe’s porous borders. Belgium early Saturday ward on a long-delayed
Having established how raised the terrorism threat system for collecting and
the attacks against a soc- alert for the Brussels area to exchanging airline passen-
cer stadium, sidewalk cafes its highest level, indicating ger information, data he
and a rock concert were a “serious and immediate said is vital “for tracing the
carried out, investigators threat.” return of foreign fighters”
were still piecing together French police official Jean- from Syria and Iraq.
details on the assailants Marc Falcone, speaking Highlighting how easily
and how they converged on France-Info radio, said some Islamic militants seem
in the French capital. he was unable to say if to be able to move in and
Prosecutors said Friday Abdeslam, whose brother, out of Europe, French of-
that they had determined Brahim, blew himself up in ficials say they don’t know
through fingerprint checks the attacks, could be back when and how Abaaoud,
that two of the seven at- on French territory. a 28-year-old Belgian of
tackers who died in the The suspected ringleader, Moroccan descent, en-
bloodshed had entered Abdelhamid Abaaoud, tered France. They had be-
Europe through Greece on was killed in a pre-dawn lieved he was in Syria until
Oct. 3. raid Wednesday on an receiving a tipoff Monday
Previously they had said apartment in the Paris sub- that he was in France.
urb of Saint-Denis, along Abaaoud was wanted
with Hasna Aitboulahcen, in Belgium where he had
a 26-year-old woman who been convicted in absentia
said she was his cousin. of recruiting foreign fighters
Prosecutors said Friday that for the Islamic State group
a third person was killed in and kidnapping his brother,
the raid but did not release who he persuaded to join
the identity. him in Syria at age 13.
They also said Aitboulah- According to Moroccan
cen had not blown her- news site Le360.ma, which
self up with a suicide vest, has close ties to the royal
as initially believed, which palace, it was Morocco
suggests the body parts that gave the French infor-
collected after the raid be- mation about Abaaoud’s
longed to the third, uniden- whereabouts. France has
tified, person. only said it got the informa-
Meanwhile in Brussels, Eu- tion from a country outside
ropean interior and justice Europe.
ministers vowed to tighten On Friday French President
border controls to make it Francois Hollande met Jor-
dan’s King Mohammed VI
and thanked the monarch
for “Morocco’s assistance
in the wake of last Friday’s
attacks.”
Marking a week since the
carnage, some Parisians lit
candles and paid tribute to
the victims with silent reflec-
tion.
“I’m still reeling, because
these are the neighbor-
hoods where we young
people go out a lot, places
we know well,” said stu-
dent Sophie Garcon as
she looked at tributes left
outside the Le Carillon bar,
where gunmen sprayed
automatic weapons fire.q
