Nov 15, 2015 · The first named was Valentin Ribet, a 26-year-old criminal lawyer at law firm Hogan Lovells, who was attending the rock concert at the Bataclan venue, where 87 people died. The London School of...
Nov 14, 2015 · The sisters, aged 34 and 35, were reportedly celebrating a friend’s birthday in Paris when the attack took place. Ribet was an associate in …
Nov 15, 2015 · Valentin Ribet, an anti-corruption lawyer from the Paris office of the law firm Hogan Lovells, was the first victim named in the Friday Paris massacre. (London School of …
The November 2015 Paris attacks were a series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks that took place on Friday 13 November 2015 in Paris, France, and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis.Beginning at 9:15 p.m., 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.
The attackers killed 130 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 France since the Second World War, and the deadliest in the European Union since the Madrid train bombings of 2004.
Islamic extremism, retaliation against French airstrikes on ISIL. The November 2015 Paris attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that took place on Friday 13 November 2015 in Paris, France and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis.
Starting on 21 November 2015, the government of Belgium imposed a security lockdown on Brussels, including the closure of shops, schools, public transportation, due to information about potential terrorist attacks in the wake of the series of coordinated attacks in Paris.
Series of terrorist attacks in Paris, France, on 13 November 2015. For other uses, see Paris attacks. November 2015 Paris attacks. Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe and the spillover of the Syrian Civil War. Public memorials for the victims, and police near the scenes of some of the attacks. Locations of the attacks—stars denote suicide bombings.
All major political parties, including Hollande's governing Socialist Party, Marine Le Pen 's National Front, and Nicolas Sarkozy 's Republicans temporarily suspended their election campaigns for the upcoming French regional elections. There was a nationwide minute of silence at noon which President Hollande and several ministers observed at a ceremony at the Paris Sorbonne University.
The first shootings occurred around 21:25 on the rue Bichat and the rue Alibert, near the Canal Saint-Martin in the 10th arrondissement. Attackers emerged from a rental SEAT León, killed the driver of a car in front of them, and then shot at people outside Le Carillon, a café and bar. Next, they crossed the rue Bichat and shot people inside the restaurant Le Petit Cambodge. According to French police, an eyewitness said one of the gunmen shouted " Allahu Akbar ". A total of thirteen people were killed at these locations, and ten others were critically injured. Afterwards, the assailants fled in the SEAT León. Doctors and nurses from the nearby Hôpital Saint-Louis were in Le Carillon when the attacks happened and supplied emergency assistance to the wounded.
President François Hollande (pictured in 2013) was at the Stade de France during the attacks. Three explosions occurred near the country's national sports stadium, the Stade de France, in the suburb of Saint-Denis, resulting in four deaths, including the three suicide bombers.
Milko Jozic and Elif Dogan were killed in the attacks, and had only been in Paris for a short time before they were murdered Saturday. Milko worked as an engineer and his wife Elif held dual Turkish and Belgian nationality. Her remains have been repatriated to Turkey and her family.
Pierre-Antoine Henry was a professional engineer who worked in communications in the Paris area, his father told local media. Henry, 36, was a 2002 alumni of ESIEE, the school said on its Facebook page. He leaves behind a wife and two young children.
Kheireddine Sahbi was a trained violinist who studied at Paris-Sorbonne University, the university president said in a statement. The 29-year-old Algerian national was called a “great master of music” in a Facebook post from an Algerian music group, which said he will be greatly missed by his friends and colleagues.
Valeria Solesin. Valeria Solesin was also killed at the Bataclan, according to Italy’s foreign minister. The 28-year-old Venice native was studying in Paris. Italy’s ANSA news agency said Solesin was at the concert with her boyfriend, his sister and the sister’s boyfriend, who were rescued.
A Parisian lawyer who studied in London was one of the first victims to be named: Valentin Ribet, 26, was at the Bataclan concert hall, according to the firm where he worked, Hogan Lovells.
Thomas Ayad. One of them was Thomas Ayad, an international product manager for Mercury Records, Universal Music Group Chairman Lucian Grainge told staff in an email Billboard magazine obtained. Grainge called it an “unspeakably appalling tragedy.”. @mariemosser/Twitter.
Manu Perez. Manu Perez, a third Universal Music employee, died in the Bataclan attack with his girlfriend, Précilia Jessy Correia. He worked for the Group as a Marketing Project Manager, according to his LinkedIn page and the president of the company, Pascal Negro.
Scores were seriously wounded in the attack, and at least 89 people were killed. As the siege at the Bataclan was developing, the 80,000 fans at the Stade de France were becoming increasingly aware of the horrors unfolding outside the stadium.
Amedy Coulibaly —who had coordinated his actions with the Kouachi brothers but had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS)—killed a police officer before murdering four hostages in a kosher grocery store in Paris.
The slogan “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”) was adopted by those wishing to express solidarity with the slain journalists.
The November 13 attacks on Paris and environs began at 9:20 pm, when a suicide bomber was foiled in his attempt to enter the Stade de France in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis . Inside the stadium, Hollande was among the 80,000 people watching an association football (soccer) match between the French and German national teams. When security officers at one of the stadium’s main entrances detected the attacker’s bomb belt, he detonated it, killing one passerby. The belt was an improvised device consisting of the highly unstable explosive compound triacetone triperoxide and shrapnel such as nails and ball bearings; identical devices would be employed by other attackers throughout the evening. Although the blast was audible to those inside the stadium, play on the field continued.
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November 19, 2015 - It is confirmed that the body of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the Paris attacks, was found in the rubble of the apartment that was raided on November 18. A female relative of Abaaoud, Hasna Ait Boulahcen was also killed in the raid.
Here is a look at the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded 494. The attackers, armed with assault rifles and explosives, targeted six locations across the city. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks.
A minute of silence was observed throughout the country in memory of the victims of the country's deadliest violence since World War II.
The Eiffel Tower stands dark as a mourning gesture on November 14, in Paris. More than 125 people were killed in a series of coordinated attacks in Paris on Friday. People around the world reacted in horror to the deadly terrorist assaults. Photos: World reacts to Paris attacks.
The Eiffel Tower in Paris is illuminated in the French national colors on Monday, November 16. Displays of support for the French people were evident at landmarks around the globe after the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, November 13. Photos: World reacts to Paris attacks. PHOTO: Laurent Cipriani/AP.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud:#N#– Deceased. Killed during the November 18th raid of an apartment building in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.#N#– Belgium citizen, spent time in Syria.#N#– Ringleader of the attacks. He directed three attackers in the Bataclan by phone from a few blocks away, according to French terrorism analyst Jean-Charles Brisard.#N#– Joined ISIS in 2014. He has been implicated in the planning of a number of terror attacks and conspiracies in Western Europe, notably a plot broken up in Belgium in January 2015.#N#– French air strikes were carried out against an ISIS training camp in Raqqa in October 2015 in an effort to kill Abaaoud, a French counterterrorism source told CNN.
People pray during a candlelight vigil for victims of the Paris attacks at a church in Islamabad, Pakistan, on November 15. French golfer Gregory Bourdy passes a peace symbol for the Paris victims during the BMW Shanghai Masters tournament November 15 in Shanghai, China.