15/11/2015 BBC Weekend News

Police identify one of the gunman in the Paris terror attacks

as a 29-year old French citizen with known extremist links.

They also recover a car said to have been used by some of the gunmen in

Dramatic new footage emerges of the moment gunmen opened fire

in the Bataclan theatre during a rock concert.

As the names of more of the victims are confirmed, the death

toll could rise, with 99 people said to be critically injured.

As France begins its first official day of mourning, hundreds queue to

pay their respects before a service at Notre Dame Cathedral later.

Police investigating the Paris terror attacks which claimed

the lives of 129 people and left nearly 100 others critically injured

have named the first of the seven gunmen responsible.

He's Omar Ismail Mostefai, who was 29, French and known to have

He was identified as one of the 4 gunmen at the Bataclan concert

from where dramatic new footage has emerged of the moment the gunfire

Police have also recovered a car they say was used by the gunmen.

It was found in a suburb toss east of Paris.

Lucy Willlamson reports now on all of the latest developments.

I should warn you her report contains some distressing images

National mourning be something very private, very personal. It is hard

facing up to the scale of this attack on Europe's people and its

way of life. TRANSLATION: I keep asking myself

why this happened, something so gratuitous. They ended people's

lives, young people. It hurts. It hurts, it hurts.

TRANSLATION: And all these dead people, they died for nothing. I

think of families today who are in mourning and distress. But slowly

clues about the people who terrorised them are starting to

emerge. Police believe this car found abandoned east of Paris empty

except for several guns was used by the attackers. And from the district

of Courcouronnes south of Paris the first confirmed identity among the

group, a 29-year-old Frenchman, Omar Ismail Mostefai, allegedly one of

the attackers at the Bataclan concert hall. And in Paris the

neighbour of Omar Ismail Mostefai's brother described the family.

TRANSLATION: On Saturday evening around 8.30pm Special Forces arrived

and some 20 people entered the house. They had keys, so no need to

break down the door. They got in and they took evidence. The family are

very pro light and nice, sociable, nothing to say. Over the border in

Belgium information about the attackers' possible links leads to

three arrests. Here in Paris, the story of Friday night's massacre is

still trickling out from the memories and mobile phones of those

who were there. This footage shot by someone at the bat o'clock rock

concert shows the moment the attackers burst in.

GUNFIRE. A short while later the chaos spills on to the street. As

France begins three days of national mourning, some of the attackers are

still believed to be missing. Despite new checks at the country's

borders and heavy security on its streets, there are worries they may

have just slipped away. And so while France mourns this act of war, it

also has one eye on what happens next.

Meanwhile, the process of identifying the

The French Prime Minister has said 20 to 30 bodies have still to be

identified. We know there was one confirmed British fatality, Nick

Alexander, who was selling merchandise for the rock band,

Eagles of Death Metal. 89 people altogether died in that concert

hall. Many of them were young people in their teens and their 20s.

129 people died in the Friday attacks, between 20 and 30 bodies

have still to be identified. Identified. For many families this

means more Identified. For many families this

waiting. A centre where worried relatives can go for information has

been opened in Paris but the news is rarely happy. This man said he would

try to keep hope alive but now it was over. Details are start Attorney

General to emerge of those who died. Nick Alexander was the first

confirmed British victim. He was killed at the Bataclan concert hall,

where he was selling merchandise at the Eagles of Death Metal concert.

In a statement his family said he was everyone's best friend. Of

course, most of the victims were French. Among them was Valentin

Ribet. He was a lawyer who graduated from the London School of Economics

last year, and had been working in Paris. Marie Mosser was another

French citizen confirmed dead last night. Her friends described her as

a dazzling pianist, brim ing with talent. A music writer was among

them, with two daughters. Some came from far away. 23-year-old, an

exchange student from southern California was killed eating dinner

with a friend. Her family say they wish she had never gone. Mimi was

very adventurous, very, she had a lot of strength, a lot of

determination and very giving. She was a beautiful person. Behind each

face there's a story. Story. Family and friends, a life, a life cut

short because on a Friday night in Paris their paths crossed with men

who came to kill. I'm joined by the British ambassador to Paris, Sir

Peter Ricketts, who has just laid flowers here in memory of the dead.

Sir Peter, thank you for being with us. We know there was at last one

British fatality and we are hearing there are more British citizens in

hospitals here. What consular assistance are you able to offer? As

soon as we heard about this terrible series of events we set up a crisis

team in the embassy. We've worked two nights and days dealing with

calls from worried people, worried about their loved ones. We've

identified one sadly killed here at Bataclan. We are working with his

family. In terms of injured people, there are some people injured on the

British side. We've been to the hospital today. We are in touch with

all of them that we know about. I can't be definitive about numbers,

with so many people killed and wounded, scattered around the

hospitals around Paris, we have to be sure before we can confirm

things. But we are in touch with all of the people we are aware of. What

are your thoughts as British ambassador to Paris in the wake of

these attacks? To come to this iconic spot where so many people

were killed is moving. To see French people coming to lay flowers and to

pay their respects, I want to be part of that on behalf of Britain.

We've been showing solidarity in the UK which means lot to the French.

And doing practical things. All the security forces, the police,

Ministers are in touch all the time with their French counterparts. We

face the same threat together and we are working very closely night and

day to get to the bottom of this and to deal with this threat against all

our societies. Sir Peter Ricketts, British ambassador to Paris, thank

you for being with us. James Robbins is in Turkey covering

the meeting today of the G20 world leaders. They now have at the top of

their agenda the dreadful attacks here in Paris. That's quite right.

President Obama in his first remarks after arriving here in Turkey said

that the skies had been darkened as a result of what happened in Paris.

He has had pre-summit discussions with his host, Turkey's President

Erdogan, and President Obama went out of his way to stress that Turkey

was a victim as much as France. Reminding us that in Turkey's

capital, Ankara, there was a bombing claimed by so-called Islamic State

blamed on them last month, which killed over 100 citizens of Ankara.

This is what President Obama had to say.

The killing of innocent people based on a twisted ideology is

an attack not just on France, not just on Turkey, but it is

And President Erdogan of Turkey said stand by for a strong statement on

terrorism, on extremism at the end of the day. It is one we think will

commit leaders here to improve aviation security and impose

stricter border controls. But that won't be enough I think to

anticipates the bigger underlying problems. James, thank you very

much. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, is chairing a meeting of the

Government's COBRA emergency committee in the wake of these

attacks here in Paris and before that meeting Theresa May spoke to

Andrew Marr this morning. And pursue thin who may have been involved in

the preparation for these barbaric attacks. We will be maintaining

increased security at our borders. Our threat level remains at severe,

which means that a terrorist attack is highly likely, so people should

remain vigilant. Let's speak to our correspondent,

Daniel Sandford, at the home office. Daniel, that COBRA meeting today, do

we know what's come out of it? The meeting is now over. It doesn't

sound as if there's much of public announcements to be made as a result

of the meeting. Theresa May didn't make any solid fresh public

announcements, but made clear once again that the most visible thing

that people will notice is an increase in security at borders.

There'll be more checks on people and more screening of vehicles at UK

borders. That's going to be fairly obvious, and people in large cities

may also notice an increase in policing in places like shopping

centres in the west of London for example. And busy transport hubs. I

think there's going to be a reasonable amount of more visible

policing. But the key to this is the extraordinarily high death toll in

France, a reminder to the authorities here just how high the

death toll can be men what are known as marauding gunmen open fire with

semi-automatic weapons in public. Reviewing plans for such an attack

and making sure that everything can be done to bring such an attack to

an end as quickly as possible. The key in these attacks is to

neutralise, essentially kill, the gunmen as soon as possible. They'll

be making sure that the firearms police and Army are ready to do that

were such an attack to happen here. An enormous investigation into what

happened here on Friday. Is there a British role in that French

investigation? Yes, twice now Theresa May has made it clear in

interviews today that the British are working very closely with the

French and Belgian authorities, which I think tells you something

about where the direction of this investigation is going. She said

that they'll be working very closely to try to identify those

responsible. Because that is still an issue, trying to work out not

just those involved but also anyone involved in the planning of these

attacks in France. And, of course, one of the things that the British

police will be doing is trying to talk to people coming back from

France. A lot of people, British people who've been in Paris will

have just made their own way back to Britain, having perhaps witnessed

these attacks and perhaps having important evidence for the

investigation. The British police here will be wanting to talk to

anybody who has returned from Paris, who witnessed these attacks, so they

can pass on any information about what they saw back into the main

French investigation. Daniel, thank you. The death toll now standing at

129, with 352 people injured. 99 of them critically ill.

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