November 2015 Paris attacks

Series of terrorist attacks in Paris, France, on 13 November 2015 The November 2015 Paris attacks were a series of co-ordinated terrorist attacks that took place on 13 November 2015 in Paris , France and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis . Beginning at 21:16 CET , three suicide bombers struck outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, during a football match. This was followed by several mass shootings and a suicide bombing, at cafés and restaurants. Gunmen carried out another mass shooting and took hostages at an Eagles of Death Metal concert in the Bataclan theatre , leading to a stand-off with police. The attackers were shot or blew themselves up when police raided the theatre. The attackers killed 130 people, including 90 at the Bataclan theatre. Another 413 people were injured, almost 100 seriously. Seven of the attackers also died while the authorities continued to search for accomplices. The attacks were the deadliest in France since the Second World War , and the deadliest in the European Union since the Madrid train bombings in 2004 . France had been on high alert since the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo offices and a Jewish supermarket in Paris that killed 17 people and wounded 22, including civilians and police officers. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying that it was retaliation for the French airstrikes on ISIL targets in Syria and Iraq. The President of France at the time, François Hollande , said the attacks were an act of war by ISIL. The attacks were planned in Syria and organised by a terrorist cell based in Belgium . Most of the Paris attackers had French or Belgian citizenship, two were Iraqis, and some had fought in Syria . Some of them had entered Europe among the flow of migrants and refugees . In response to the attacks, a three-month state of emergency was declared across the country to help fight terrorism, which involved the banning of public demonstrations, and allowing the police to carry out searches without a warrant, put anyone under house arrest without trial and block websites that encouraged acts of terrorism. On 15 November, France launched the biggest airstrike of Opération Chammal , its contribution to the anti-ISIL bombing campaign, striking ISIL targets in Raqqa . On 18 November, the suspected lead operative of the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud , was killed in a police raid in Saint-Denis , along with two others. There are <ref group=C> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ). "Suicide d'un rescapé du Bataclan : Guillaume, 131e victime du 13 novembre" (in French). "Bataclan survivor describes moment Isis gunman tried to kill her" . 12 November 2016. "L'organisation État islamique revendique les attentats de Paris" (in French). The Wall Street Journal . Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks on a social media account, but didn't provide specific information that would allow the claim to be verified. It said that the attacks were retaliation for French airstrikes against the group in Syria and Iraq. The Wall Street Journal . The New York Times . The New York Times . The French prime minister, Manuel Valls, said some of the killers had taken advantage of Europe's migrant crisis to "slip in" unnoticed. Los Angeles Times, in the Sacramento Bee . As waves of refugees from Syria converged on Europe this summer, law enforcement authorities feared this scenario: That terrorist operatives would slip in among the multitudes [...] Last week's attacks on France may have validated some of those fears. At least three of the seven known attackers and the suspected ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud [...] are thought to have crossed clandestinely from Syria into Europe. "France state of emergency declared for three months, allowing authorities to shut down websites and giving police sweeping new powers" .

2015 Islamist terror attacks in France For other uses, see Paris attacks . A series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris , France, and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis . Beginning at 21:16, three suicide bombers struck outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, during an international football match, after failing to gain entry to the stadium. Another group of attackers then fired on crowded cafés and restaurants in Paris, with one of them also detonating an explosive , killing himself in the process. A third group carried out another mass shooting and took hostages at an Eagles of Death Metal concert attended by 1,500 people in the Bataclan theatre, leading to a stand-off with police. The attackers were either shot or detonated suicide vests when police raided the theatre. The attackers killed 137 people, including 90 at the Bataclan theatre. Another 416 people were injured, almost 100 critically. Seven of the attackers were also killed. The attacks were the deadliest in the European Union since the Madrid train bombings of 2004 . The attacks came one day after similar attacks in Beirut , Lebanon, and thirteen days after the bombing of a Russian airliner over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt . France had been on high alert since the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo offices and a Jewish supermarket in Paris that killed 17 people. The Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attacks (as they had done with the Beirut attacks a day prior), saying that it was retaliation for French airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq. The president of France, François Hollande , said the attacks were an act of war by the Islamic State. The attacks were planned in Syria and organized by a terrorist cell based in Belgium . Two of the Paris attackers were Iraqis, but most were born in France or Belgium, and had fought in Syria . Some of the attackers had returned to Europe among the flow of migrants and refugees from Syria . In response to the attacks, a three-month state of emergency was declared across the country to help fight terrorism, which involved the banning of public demonstrations, and allowing the police to carry out searches without a warrant, put anyone under house arrest without trial, and block websites that encouraged acts of terrorism. On 15 November, France launched the biggest airstrike of Opération Chammal , its part in the bombing campaign against Islamic State. The authorities searched for surviving attackers and accomplices. On 18 November, the suspected lead operative of the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud , was killed in a police raid in Saint-Denis , along with two others. There are <ref group=C> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ). Le Parisien (in French). 16 June 2019 . "Bataclan survivor describes moment Isis gunman tried to kill her" . 12 November 2016. "L'organisation État islamique revendique les attentats de Paris" (in French). The Wall Street Journal . Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks on a social media account, but didn't provide specific information that would have allowed the claim to be verified. It said that the attacks were retaliation for French airstrikes against the group in Syria and Iraq. EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT) 2016 . The Wall Street Journal . On the evening of Friday 13 November 2015... The attacks in Paris on the night of Friday 13 November... The New York Times . The New York Times . The French prime minister, Manuel Valls, said some of the killers had taken advantage of Europe's migrant crisis to "slip in" unnoticed. Los Angeles Times, in the Sacramento Bee . As waves of refugees from Syria converged on Europe this summer, law enforcement authorities feared this scenario: That terrorist operatives would slip in among the multitudes [...] Last week's attacks on France may have validated some of those fears. At least three of the seven known attackers and the suspected ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud [...] are thought to have crossed clandestinely from Syria into Europe. "France state of emergency declared for three months, allowing authorities to shut down websites and giving police sweeping new powers" .