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2:10 p.m.
Parisians desperate to get in touch with family and friends missing since Friday's co-ordinated attacks in Paris are taking to social media under the hashtag #rechercheparis — "Paris Search" in English — posting heartfelt messages and photos.
Scores of people that attended the six sites targeted in the attacks in which at least 127 people died are still unaccounted for.
One post reads: "Waleed is missing. We last contacted him at the match, Please share & contact me if u have any info. #rechercheParis".
Another: "I've been looking for my cousin since last night... He's 25 and 1m75. He's called Younes. #rechercheParis "
The photos and messages are garnering hundreds of retweets — from users eager to help in the search for survivors.
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2:10 p.m.
British police say they've arrested a man and called in explosive specialists at Gatwick Airport amid heightened concerns following the terror attacks in Paris.
The North Terminal at Gatwick has been evacuated as police dealt with the incident Saturday.
Police say they were called at around 9.30 a.m. (GMT) after suspicious actions by the man, who had discarded an item.
Gatwick is Britain's second busiest airport.
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2:05 p.m.
France's interior minister has authorized local authorities to impose curfews if needed after the deadliest attacks in the country since World War II.
Bernard Cazeneuve said in a televised address Saturday that authorities are also banning all public demonstrations until Thursday.
Cazeneuve laid out increased security measures across the country, including thousands more troops and police and special protection for certain public buildings.
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1:55 p.m.
Russia's civil aviation authority is telling airlines and airports to tighten security in the wake of Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris. The national rail network also said it is taking extra security precautions.
Russia's nerves already were strained about security in the wake of the Oct. 31 fatal crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt, a disaster widely believed to have been a terrorist attack.
In Moscow, mourners were congregating outside the French Embassy to lay flowers and express condolences.
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1:50 p.m.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says his government is boosting border controls in response to the attacks in Paris.
Rutte told reporters in The Hague on Saturday that his administration will take "visible and invisible" measures to increase security. He declined to elaborate on what form the new tougher security would take.
Rutte says "violence and extremism will never triumph over freedom and humanity."
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1:45 p.m.
Hungary's prime minister says security measures will be tightened in light of the terror attacks in Paris and has declared Sunday as a national day of mourning.
Viktor Orban also said Saturday that a special congress of his Fidesz party to have been held Sunday to elect new leadership has been postponed.
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1:25 p.m.
Prime Minister David Cameron is warning his nation to brace for casualties from the attacks in Paris, but he has left the nation's terror alert warning unchanged.
The British leader says the country "must be prepared for a number of British casualties" from the Paris atrocity. He condemned the "brutal and callous murderers".
Cameron said Saturday that the terror threat level in the UK would remain at "severe," — the second-highest level — but that authorities would review plans amid an "evolving" threat from Islamic state.
In a message of solidarity to the people of France he said: "Your values are our values, your pain is our pain, your fight is our fight."
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1:15 p.m.
Parisians are lining up for hours to give blood, piling flowers and notes and spilling tears outside a music hall where scores of people were killed by rampaging suicide bombers who shattered the peace of the French capital.
Though deeply shaken, many residents of the hip neighbourhood in eastern Paris tried Saturday to find a way to help the some 200 people wounded in a string of attacks Friday night on the concert hall, crowded cafes and a stadium.
Long lines of blood donors snaked out of the St. Louis Hospital near the site of the bloodshed.
Near the Bataclan concert hall, people who lost loved ones and those who didn't came to pay their respects. The attackers stormed the Bataclan during a concert by American band Eagles of Death Metal.
"For the angels of rock 'n' roll," read one note.
"For all the friends that I knew, and those I didn't know. For life," read another.
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1:10 p.m.
Italy's top security official says security has been heightened in the country and along its borders, especially with France, following the attacks in Paris.
Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told reporters after meeting with Premier Matteo Renzi and other top security and intelligence officials that the country had raised its alert level to the second highest, allowing for rapid deployment of special forces if necessary.
Alfano says no country is free from risk and that "a great democracy like Italy needs to be ready for any event."
Alfano says 700 soldiers were being deployed immediately to Rome as a deterrent. And he sats additional security measures will be taken into consideration for the upcoming Jubilee year declared by Pope Francis that is expected to bring millions to Rome beginning Dec. 8.
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1:00 p.m.
Two French police officials say a Syrian passport was found on the body of one of the suicide bombers who targeted France's national soccer stadium.
French President Francois Hollande said the Islamic State group orchestrated the attacks, and IS claimed responsibility.
The identities and nationalities of the attackers have not been released. At least 127 people were killed and about 200 wounded in the attacks.
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12:40 p.m.
The president of the International Olympic Committee says the terrorist attacks in Paris are "an attack on humanity and all humanitarian and Olympic values."
Thomas Bach adds in a statement: "Today all people of goodwill will say: We are all French."
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12:30 p.m.
A community leader from Paris' working-class suburbs says he fears a "tsunami of hatred" may await Muslims and residents of poor neighbourhoods following the deadly terror attacks.
Nadir Kahia of the Banlieue Plus community association says its members are shocked and feel a sense of solidarity "but we know ... some Muslims and poor neighbourhoods" will be subjected to hate speech.
Kahia also called Saturday for unity of French people and efforts to calm tensions in a text message to The Associated Press.
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12:20 p.m.
British police say the north terminal at Gatwick Airport is being evacuated as a precaution after authorities found a suspicious article.
Police described the evacuation Saturday as a precaution, but the incident comes at a time of heightened concern in Britain in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Paris. Police have announced additional security at ports and big events in light of the attacks.
Gatwick is Britain's second busiest airport.
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12:05 p.m.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for attacks in Paris that killed over 120 people.
The claim was made in a statement in Arabic and French released online Saturday and circulated by supporters of the group. It was not immediately possible to confirm the authenticity of the statement, but it bore the group's logo and resembled previous statements issued by the group.
French President Francois Hollande had earlier blamed the attacks on the IS group, calling it "an act of war" and vowing to strike back.
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11:50 a.m.
The German government has ordered flags on official buildings lowered to half-mast Saturday as a sign of solidarity and sorrow over the attacks in Paris.
Flowers, candles and messages of condolence have meanwhile been placed outside the French embassy in Berlin. A vigil was planned there early Saturday afternoon.
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11:35 a.m.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has called a meeting of Spain's National Security Council to "analyze the situation in the wake of the Paris attacks."
Rajoy says: "We aren't facing a war of religions, but a battle between civilization and barbarism. They may hurt us, but they can't beat us."
Speaking Saturday during a special television appearance, Rajoy says Spain was on high alert and its forces had in the past few weeks stopped several terror attacks.
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11:20 a.m.
German media reported Saturday that a 51-year-old man arrested last week after weapons were discovered in his car has been linked to the Paris attacks.
A spokesman for Bavarian state police confirmed that firearms, explosives and hand grenades had been found when undercover police stopped the suspect near the German-Austrian border on Nov. 5.
Public broadcaster Bayrischer Rundfunk reported that documents found during the arrest indicated that the man was travelling to Paris. It reported that the arms, which it said included an automatic rifle and one kilogram of TNT, were professionally hidden inside the body of the car, a VW Golf.
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11:10 a.m.
French President Francois Hollande, speaking to the nation, said attacks Friday that killed 127 people were "an act of war."
He said the attacks on a stadium, concert hall and Paris cafe diners were "committed by a terrorist army, the Islamic State group, a jihadist army, against France, against the values that we defend everywhere in the world, against what we are: A free country that means something to the whole planet."
He said France "will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group." France "will act by all means anywhere, inside or outside the country."
France is already bombing IS targets in Syria and Iraq as part of the U.S.-led coalition, and has troops fighting extremists in Africa.
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11 a.m.
French President Francois Hollande says that the Islamic State group orchestrated the worst attacks in France since World War II and vowed to strike back.
Hollande said after an emergency security meeting Saturday that the death toll has risen to 127 in a string of near-simultaneous attacks Friday night on a concert hall, stadium and Paris cafes.
He declared three days of national mourning and put the nation's security at its highest level.
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10:35 a.m.
A resident near Paris' Bataclan concert hall spoke of their shock and disbelief over the gun attack Friday night that left around 80 revelers dead.
Entrepreneur Gabriel Delattre, 31, was arriving home on a bike when he bumped into a nightmarish scene: a man whose shirt was "black with blood" wandering by the side of another man with a large bullet hole in his cheek.
"He was staring at me," Delattre said. "He was confused and mumbling and didn't know what he was doing. He just kept saying, 'We were attacked, we got down on the floor, and we managed to get out. But the others stayed trapped.'"
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9:40 a.m.
Disneyland Paris is closed to the public in a highly unusual move because of a string of attacks targeting a stadium, concert hall and cafes in Paris that killed at least 120.
The theme park east of Paris, one of Europe's leading tourist attractions, said in a statement that it decided not to open Saturday "in light of the recent tragic events in France and in support of our community and the victims of these horrendous attacks."
Some 14 million people visited Disneyland Paris last year.
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9:35 a.m.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel the attackers who killed more than 120 people in Paris overnight "hate freedom."
Speaking to reporters in Berlin early Saturday, Merkel expressed grief for those who died, saying "they wanted to live the life of free people in a city that celebrates life."
She says the victims encountered "murderers who hate precisely this life of freedom."
Merkel said her country stands ready to help France in whichever way it can.
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9:30 a.m.
French President Francois Hollande is meeting top government and security officials after suicide bombers targeted a stadium, concert hall and Friday night cafe crowds in attacks that killed at least 120.
The special meeting in the Elysee Palace on Saturday morning comes as police hunt for potential accomplices to eight attackers who were killed in Friday night's violence. Hollande declared a state of emergency — the first such move in a decade — and ordered 1,500 additional troops deployed.
The attacks raise concerns about international events that France is hosting, such as a UNESCO forum in Paris on Monday with world leaders, and major climate talks in Paris in two weeks.
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9:30 a.m.
Germany's foreign minister says his country stands by France after the attacks in Paris, which he described as an "inferno of terror."
Frank-Walter Steinmeier was present during the football friendly between France and Germany on Friday night, when three suicide bombs targeted spots around the national stadium.
Steinmeier said Saturday on the sidelines of the Syria talks in Vienna that "the extent of the horror ... exceeds everyone's imagination."
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9 a.m.
Some 1,500 extra soldiers have been mobilized to guard French facilities and schools and universities are closed because of the country's deadliest attacks in decades.
Many French schools are normally open on Saturdays, but the French government ordered them shuttered as part of emergency security measures.
Soldiers were deployed at key sites around Paris, including Parliament buildings and religious sites. |
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