The president of France has blamed the Islamic State for an "act of war" that had left at least 128 dead in bombing attacks, as well as at least 80 people murdered in a concert hall. The brutal and horrific attacks have left the world stunned and reeling.
The horrific terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday has left France, and the world, stunned by their ferocity and brutality. At least 128 people are dead and several hundred have been left wounded after several coordinated attacks on the French capital. The president of France, Francois Hollande, has blamed the Islamic State for the attacks and considers the attacks an act of war against the people of France.
He declared a national state of emergency and has ordered the French army to patrol the streets of Paris, according to The New York Times. On Saturday, the Islamic State declared that they were responsible for the attacks. Hollande was furious and publicly stated that the bombings and other murders were an act of war “that was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh, against France… It is an act of war that was prepared, organized, and planned from abroad with complicity from the inside…”
It appears to many as if the Islamic State is trying to launch a world war as it continues to strike at a wide range of targets. The attacks in Paris have also made louder those arguments against continuing to allow the unstoppable flow of refugees on to the continent of Europe.
There are still no leads with regard to possibly identifying eight of the attackers who were killed in shootouts with police. While most of Paris is in lockdown, Charles De Gaulle international airport has remained opened. Seven of the attackers wore vest bombs and blew themselves up on the crowded streets of Paris while another was shot down by police at a concert hall after brutally murdering 80 people who were in the concert hall at the time of the attacks.
At least 40 people were murdered just outside the city at Paris’ football stadium where a game was going on between France and Germany and was being attended by Hollande himself. Over 200 are at Paris hospitals with about half of them in critical condition and undergoing surgeries.
These attacks were far more murderous than the ones that were carried out this past January at the French newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, and is the worst attack on the continent since the train bombings in Madrid back in 2004 that left 191 people dead. The attacks have been widely condemned all over the world and many world leaders, including President Obama, Pope Francis I and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have vented their anger and their shock publicly in support of Hollande and the people of France.
