Valls made the warning in his speech to the National Assembly, which is supposed to examine a bill on Thursday to extend the state of emergency to three months, as proposed by French President Francois Hollande.
"We are at war, not a war that history has tragically accustomed us," Valls said, noting that "this is a war of which the battle front moves constantly and situates at the center of our daily life."
"This new war is a war planned and carried out by an army of criminals," he said, referring to the Islamic State, whose attacks last Friday killed at least 132 people in Paris.
A raid was carried out early Wednesday morning in northern Paris suburbs to destroy a new "terrorist team," which, according to Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins, was able to take terrorist actions.
The security forces are still hunting two main suspects, Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Salah Abdeslam.
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19/11/15
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French lower house of parliament on Thursday voted to extend the state of emergency by three months in the wake of Friday’s attacks. The measure must now be approved by the upper house before it can become law...
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Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned that France could face chemical or biological attacks in his address to parliament.
Belgian police launched multiple anti-terrorism raids on Thursday, with one in Laeken specifically connected to Friday’s terrorist attacks in France.
Investigators are still trying to identify if key suspects in the Paris attacks were killed in Wednesday’s raid in a Parisian suburb. At least two people were killed during the operation................http://www.france24.com/en/20151119-live-blog-paris-attack-mastermind-police-raid-islamic-state-group-terrorism-france
The suspected mastermind of the attacks that killed 129 in Paris was among those killed in a police raid in a suburb of the French capital Wednesday, the Paris prosecutor said in a statement Thursday...
DeleteAbdelhamid Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian militant, who had boasted of mounting attacks in Europe for ISIS, was accused of orchestrating Friday's coordinated bombings and shootings.
Police originally thought he was in Syria, but their investigations led them to a house in the Paris suburb of St. Denis and heavily armed officers stormed the building before dawn, triggering a massive firefight and multiple explosions.
"Abdel Hamid Abaaoud has just been formally identified, after comparing fingerprints, as having been killed during the (police) raid," the statement said. "It was the body we had discovered in the building, riddled with bullets."
REUTERS
19/11/15