• OzzModz is no longer taking registrations. All registrations are being redirected to Snog's Site
    All addons and support is available there now.

Paris attacks: What we know today

Luke Skywalker

Super Moderator
{vb:raw ozzmodz_postquote}:
A man holds a sign in French that reads, "Je Suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie") at the start of a unity rally in Paris on Jan. 11.(Photo: Martin Bureau, AFP/Getty Images)


New details were still emerging Sunday about last week's terrorist attacks in France as a massive anti-terrorism rally took place in Paris after 17 people and three gunmen were killed over three days that rattled the nation.
Here's what we know:
Paris unity rally largest in French history
The "unprecedented" anti-terrorism rally Sunday is the largest demonstration in France's history, according to the country's Interior Ministry. More than 3.7 million took part in demonstrations throughout the country, including between 1.2 million and 1.6 million in the capital. The ministry said a precise number is impossible given the enormity of the turnout.
More than 40 world leaders — their arms linked — marched through Paris during the rally, including French President François Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"Today, Paris is the capital of the world," Hollande said. "Our entire country will rise up toward something better."
Additional rallies were held across France and in major cities from New York to Madrid to Cairo.
USA TODAY
'Charlie' draws historic crowd, world leaders to Paris



Obama, Kerry absent at Paris demonstration
The United States was represented at Sunday's rally in Paris by Ambassador to France Jane Hartley. Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder and Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas were in Paris for meetings with French officials on security issues.
The White House had no official comment on President Obama's absence. Traditionally, U.S. presidents avoid large-scale public gathering such as the one Sunday in the Place de la Republique, because of the difficulty in providing security in such a large space with hundreds of thousands of people milling around.
At a previously scheduled international conference in India on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the world stood with the people of France "not just in anger and in outrage, but in solidarity and commitment to the cause of confronting extremism and in the cause that extremists fear so much and that has always united our countries: freedom."
USA TODAY
Attorney general, ambassador represent U.S. in Paris



Video of supermarket gunman emerges
A video emerged Sunday showing Amedy Coulibaly pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. Coulibaly, 32, shot a policewoman Thursday, before attacking a kosher supermarket Friday, where he killed four people before taking hostages. He was killed during a police assault to end the standoff.
According to Le Monde, Coulibaly claims in the video to have coordinated his attack "against police" with the assault against satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that left 12 dead. The Hebdo attack was orchestrated by brothers Cherif Kouachi, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34. In the video, Coulibaly boasts of belonging to the Islamic State and says the organization gave money to the Kouachi brothers to buy weapons and other equipment, Le Monde reported. It is not known when the video was shot.
USA TODAY
Video shows Paris gunman pledging allegiance to Islamic State



635565596467075337-AFP-536641307.jpg

Amateur video shows a man police confirm as supermarket shooter Amedy Coulibaly, saying the France gun attacks were coordinated and justified. Jillian Kitchener reports.



Coulibaly linked to third shooting
A prosecutor said Sunday that Coulibaly is also linked to the shooting of a jogger Wednesday, the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
In a brief statement, the prosecutor said ballistics tests on shell cases from the shooting Wednesday in Fontenay aux Roses linked them to the automatic weapon at the kosher store stormed by Coulibaly two days later. The prosecutor said the jogger was seriously wounded.
635563908569344288-AFP-536587649.jpg
Amedy Coulibaly was suspected in the killing of a policewoman in Montrouge, France, on Jan. 8. and took hostages at a kosher grocery store Jan. 9 in Paris.(Photo: Paris Prefecture via epa)

German newspaper attacked
German newspaper the Hamburger Morgenpost, which reprinted Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the prophet Mohammed following Wednesday's massacre, said it endured an arson attack at about 2 a.m. local time Sunday.
No one was in the building at the time, the newspaper said, adding that two people were arrested. It was not immediately known if the attack is connected to the cartoons.
635565634487692788-EPA-GERMANY-NEWSPAPER-ARSON-ATTACK.jpg
Burned files and newspapers lie on the ground outside the headquarters of German daily Hamburger Morgenpost, in Hamburg on Jan. 11, 2015.(Photo: Bodo Marks, European Pressphoto Agency)

Jewish victims to be buried in Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the four people killed when Coulibaly stormed the kosher supermarket will be buried in Israel. A funeral is tentatively set for Tuesday.
France's leading Jewish organization, CRIF, identified the victims of the Friday attack as Yoav Hattab, Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen and Francois-Michel Saada.
USA TODAY
Four killed at Paris grocery store were all Jewish



Police officer killed in Hebdo attack buried
Thousands gathered Sunday for the funeral of Ahmed Merabet, the French police officer killed as the Kouachi brothers fled the scene of their assault on the newspaper Wednesday.
Mourners gathered to pay their respects and waved signs reading "Thank you, Ahmed" and "Je Suis (I am ) Ahmed."
635565636174397224-GTY-461220014.jpg
Flowers and banners are placed on the ground where French policeman Ahmed Merabet was killed by the two gunmen who attacked the french satirical publication "Charlie Hebdo" on Jan. 7, 2015 in Paris.(Photo: Marc Piasecki, Getty Images)

Obama to host summit to fight violent extremism
In the wake of terrorist attacks in France and elsewhere, the Obama administration announced Sunday it will host a Summit on Countering Violent Extremism next month.
The Feb. 18 event will "highlight domestic and international efforts to prevent violent extremists and their supporters from radicalizing, recruiting, or inspiring individuals or groups in the United States and abroad to commit acts of violence," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
USA TODAY
Obama to host summit to fight violent extremism



Five held in Paris attacks freed from custody
Five people were freed from custody late Saturday, and no one remained in detention over the terrorist attacks that left 17 dead over the course of three days, prosecutor's spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said Sunday.
USA TODAY
Timeline: How three days of terror unfolded in Paris



German minister calls for anti-Muslim rally to be canceled
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said Sunday that the weekly rally organized by a group called the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West, or Pegida, should be canceled in light of the Paris terrorist attacks.
Organizers of the protests have asked demonstrators to wear black ribbons to honor the victims of the three days of terrorism that rattled France.
Contributing: The Associated Press




Powered By WizardRSS.com | Full Text RSS Feed
 
Back
Top