New Terror series in Paris: At least 60 dead
Paris has been rocked by a series of terrorist attacks. At least 60 people are killed. President Hollande declared a state of emergency. Worldwide, there are horror.
Ten months after the attack on the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” Paris has been shaken by an unprecedented terrorist series. With stops at different locations at least 60 people were killed on Friday night after media reports. President François Hollande said in a television address from the Elysée Palace, the state of emergency applies with immediate effect. The borders should remain closed.
An hour after midnight was still not clear the exact events. According to police, there were attacks on at least seven different locations. This also included the area around the Stade de France, where a football match between Germany and France took place. In the stadium were during the first half, two heavy explosions heard.
In one of the most famous concert halls in the French capital, the “Bataclan” was even after hours of a hostage situation in transition. There on Friday evening, the American rock band “Eagles of Death Metal” had appeared before a packed hall. The hall holds 1500 spectators. The attackers shot at witnesses around and shouting “Allah is great”. It should have been a lot of deaths.
The news agency AFP reported on the night that the police had begun with the access to the hall. The area around the “Bataclan” was cordoned off a wide area. It is one of the most popular nightlife districts of the French capital. On Friday evenings especially many young people there are on the go. The editors of the satirical journal “Charlie Hebdo”, which had been raided in January by terrorists is just a few blocks away.
Hollande appealed to his compatriots to hold together in the face of new attacks. “The terrorists want to put us in fear and terror. One can be afraid, you can feel terror, “the president said. “But the horror is facing a nation that knows how to defend himself. The know how she gathers her forces. And the will know once again how they will defeat the terrorists. “
The military has been strengthened to prevent further attacks. All hospitals of the capital were put into a state of emergency. The population of Paris has been asked to stay at home. “We ask you not to leave their own homes and wait for instructions from the police,” it said a statement of the police. Fearing further attacks, several lines of metro subway were closed.
The international game has not been canceled, despite the series of attacks. Then the spectators left the stadium after reports of a dpa reporter without panic. Many were baffled. Kids had tears in his eyes. No one knew exactly what had happened. Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who had followed the first half at Hollande’s side in the stadium, was horrified. “We are on the side of France,” said Steinmeier.
Germany coach Joachim Loew reacted with great consternation and concern at the events. “We are all shocked and shocked,” Loew said in the ARD. “For me, in the background of the sport or the goals occurs.” Team manager Oliver Bierhoff spoke of “great uncertainty, great anxiety and great concern” in the German cabin.
The series of attacks sparked world of horror. Chancellor Angela Merkel said: “I am deeply shocked by the news and images that reach us from Paris. My thoughts in these hours at the victims of the terrorist attacks obviously, their families, and all people in Paris. “US President Barack Obama condemned the attacks as” heinous attempt “to terrorize the world. “We will do whatever needs to be done always to draw these terrorists to justice.”
In France already were before the attacks since this Friday again more stringent security measures. For “terrorist threat” and “risk to public order”, the government had also decided to include the border controls again before the UN Climate Change Conference. The climate conference is expected to attract numerous leaders from around the world, will start on 30 November.
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