These are details we have been able to gather about how all seven attacks happened across Paris At
least 132 people are dead, and another 352 injured, after three teams
of jihadis struck the Stade de France football stadium, a handful of
bars and cafes, and then finally the Bataclan concert hall.
FIRST TWO ATTACKS: STADE DE FRANCE
–
The attacks began at 8.17pm GMT at the Stade de France where the French
football team was hosting Germany in an international friendly.
–
The game was being watched by 80,000 spectators, among them was
President Francois Hollande who had to be evacuated from the stadium.
–
The first explosion, a suicide bombing, was at an entrance to the
stadium. A guard said an explosives vest was found on one of the
attackers as he was frisked trying to enter with a ticket. While trying
to back away from security officers the militant detonated his vest. A
second terrorist is believed to have blown himself minutes later. One
person was killed in the explosions.
THIRD ATTACK: LE PETIT CAMBODGE AND LE CARILLON BAR
–
At 8.25pm GMT a separate team of gunmen arrived in a Black Seat and
attacked diners at popular Cambodian restaurant Le Petit Cambodge and Le
Carillon bar in the trendy Canal Saint-Martin area of eastern Paris,
killing 15.
FOURTH ATTACK: LA CASA NOSTRA PIZZERIA AND LA BELLE EQUIPE BAR
–
The same unit then drove about 500 yards to La Casa Nostra pizzeria and
opened fire on diners on the terrace of the restaurant, killing at
least five people.
– From there, the
militants drove around a mile south-east – apparently past the area of
the Bataclan concert venue – to launch another attack, this time on La
Belle Equipe bar in Rue de Charonne. At least 19 people died after the
terrace was sprayed with bullets at 8.38pm GMT. The attackers then drove
off.
FIFTH ATTACK: CAFÉ ‘COMPTOIR VOLTAIRE’
–
Five minutes later, a separate attacker – Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31 – set
off a suicide vest outside the outside cafe ‘Comptoir Voltaire’ on the
Boulevard Voltaire and close to the Bataclan theatre. He hired a black
Seat car used in the attack.
SIXTH ATTACK: BATACLAN MUSIC HALL
–
At 8.49pm GMT, the third group (believed to be three men and a woman)
armed with AK-47s stormed the Bataclan music hall and began shooting
members of the crowd. Survivors claim three blew themselves up and a
fourth person was shot dead by police before they could detonate their
bomb.
SEVENTH ATTACK: NEAR STADE DE FRANCE
At
around 8.50pm GMT a third blast took place near the Stade de France,
this time by a McDonald’s restaurant on the fringes of the stadium. The
boom caused terror among spectators who had already been attempting to
flee the stadium following the first two explosions.
Aftermath:
On
Saturday morning, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks across
Paris, saying ‘eight brothers wearing explosive belts and carrying
assault rifles’ conducted a ‘blessed attack on… Crusader France’.
On
Saturday afternoon, three people travelling in a grey VW Polo were
arrested at the French/Belgian border when police traced the car after
it was sighted outside the Bataclan theatre at the time of the attacks.
One
of the Bataclan suspects was found carrying a Syrian passport under the
name Ahmed Almuhamed who travelled to France as a migrant through
Greece on October 3. Ferry tickets reveal he travelled with another man
named as Mohammed Almuhamed.
Omar
Ismaël Mostefai, 29, from Courcouronnes, Paris was also named as a
Bataclan suicide bomber. The petty criminal and father-of-one was known
to police as a radical and had travelled to Algeria and Syria. He was
identified by the fingerprint on a severed digit found after he
detonated his suicide belt. Mostefai is believed to have been
radicalised by a Belgian hate preacher of Moroccan descent claimed to
have regularly preached at his mosque in South West France.
Mostefai’s father, a brother and other family members have been held and are being questioned.
The
black Seat Leon used by the terrorists who murdered diners outside the
Casa Nostra pizza restaurant and the La Belle Équipe cafe was found
abandoned 20 minutes away in Montreuil with a cache of weapons inside.
Seven
people were detained in Belgium linked to the atrocities – three at the
border and four in Brussels. Five are from the Molenbeek area of
Brussels known as a ‘den of terrorists’.
French media reports suggest three of the men involved were brothers, but police have not confirmed the reports.
French police are still hunting for two gunmen on the run and an ISIS bombmaker likely to have made the suicide vests.
Source: DailyMail
No comments:
Post a Comment