Terror in Paris Panorama

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Hello. We live tonight in the heart of Paris the Place de la Republique

now a shrine to the victims of terrorism in this country, not just

to the 129 killed in Friday's attacks but also to the 17 killed in

January when gunmen attacked the offices of the magazine Charlie

Hebdo and a kosher supermarket. Today, there have been a series of

raids on suspected Islamic militants across France and 23 Beeb have been

arrested in this country. There's been a major police operation across

the border in Belgium. It is three days since the bullets and bombs of

Friday night, designed to strike fear into hearts and minds

everywhere. This country has been traumatised and changed by the

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Friday night, the end of the week. Paris takes to its restaurants, bars

and clubs. In their midst, three teams of gunmen

On the Boulevard Voltaire, the Bataclan musical is a venue for a

sell-out concert. 1500 young people gathered to see the American rock

band, Eagles Of Death Metal. Can you get me something out of the fridge,

Sarah? Going to the gig, Michael and his French girlfriend, Sarah.

Personally, identity know them that well. I've only had a few of the

songs but it is one of Sarah's favourite band and we have been

planning it for months. The couple are running late for the show. When

we arrived, we could see a lot of couples kissing, people were happy.

To be honest, I wanted to stand near the back. It was packed and I did

not want to push to the front to dance so I stood at the back, near

the doors. But Sarah was so excited to be there. She pushed me to go

closer and have a dance. We were not drunk. Thank God. Four or five songs

into the band's set, the gunmen burst in. GUNFIRE

The killing had begun earlier that evening at a football match attended

by 80,000 fans. The atmosphere before it kicked off

was amazing. There were loads of French flags waving and it was a

beautiful scene. France are playing Germany in a friendly at Paris's

version of Wembley, the Stade de France. B huge bangs, an explosion.

We all thought it was just fireworks, it could have been

anything. We kept on watching the game. A suicide bomber detonated his

device outside the stadium, killing a passer-by. It is the first murder

of the night. Three minutes later, another suicide

bomber blows himself up outside the ground. We could feel it, we could

feel the seats moving. The French president Francois Hollande is that

the game and soon learns that Paris is under attack. By the end of the

night, it will be the city's greatest loss of life since the

Second World War. Minutes after the stadium bombings,

the shooting starts in Paris' Eastern district. Gun men get out of

a car and start firing at Ringo Starr outside Le Carillon bar in Rue

Alibert. I saw the killer, the terrorists, -- start firing at

drinkers. I got out of my window and saw them. I saw them walk with a

Kalashnikov, and just kill. I was like, my God, what is happening? One

of the gunmen crosses the road and opens fire on the Petit Cambodge

restaurant. Was he firing single shots? Like this, bang, bang, bang.

Police counts more than 100 bullet holes. 15 people were injured. 15

killed. I saw everything. It was horrible.

This is a close-knit community. Sawdust covers the blood of those

they knew. Ordinary people,

an ordinary community, not a posh part of Paris by any means,

and the people are devastated. People here,

they know the people who were killed in the restaurant and there is

nothing they can do about it. A few streets to the south,

is the Rue Fontaine au Roi, The gunmen came from

Le Petit Cambodge, this way, bullet And then the car stopped,

two men got out, and they shot at that restaurant there,

and you can see from the sawdust and the blood on the pavement they

killed people there, too. Two men opened fire from a car,

spraying bullets at the terrace People say the car with the gunmen

came this way and they are firing They shoot up this

hairdresser's here. On this side of the street,

they shoot up the bakery. Next to the bakery, there is a bar,

La Belle Equipe. There is a big game on,

France versus Germany. At the end of it,

19 people lie dead. The last restaurant attack is at

Le Comptoir Voltaire. A suicide bomber blows himself up,

leaving several people injured. By 9:40pm local time,

two of the three teams Now, a third team walk through

the front doors of the Bataclan Music Hall, where Michael and Sara

are dancing just by the stage. I seen somebody with a gun firing

indiscriminately into the crowd... We saw, like,

people were like dropping on... Yeah, we seen people falling

as he was firing into them, But so many people were pushing and

trying to get towards the, trying to A gunman makes his way up to

the balcony, All we could hear was the gunfire,

which was pretty... Pretty steady,

pretty intense gunfire. Occasionally, we could hear them

reloading and they would empty And this is where we stay, we stayed

there, like, for over an hour. I was lying over one side of Sara

here, and to one side here was another girl, who I put my arm over,

and then, behind her, There was a bomb at one point,

a big explosion, and pieces of the plaster from the ceiling,

like, were showering down on us. The smell, I thought we were

going to die... Sulphur. Amid the shooting,

Michael and Sara hear the killers praying in Arabic and shouting,

"Allah Akbar" - God is great. One lays the blame in French

on President Hollande. "The reason we are here is because

of Francois Hollande"? This young man, injured in the leg,

struggles to get away. And this woman, desperate to

survive, clings to a window ledge. Inside, Michael fears he and Sara

will not survive. I was close enough to give her

a little kiss, and to hold her. I just said, "I love you, you know,

if I don't make it out of here alive, remember that, that I really

love you and tell everybody back After she, after I said that,

she looked at me, she kissed me and said, "This isn't

where it is going to end, we are not going to die here, we will be fine,

we will not die like this." It's a horrible moment, you are

trapped here, but you have to put it through, it's going to be fine,

you are going to make it out alive. On the street, police prepare

to take the gunmen on. I park my bike here and I ran to

the corner to have a good view He takes pictures, hiding

in bushes across the road. I think I stayed there in the bushes

for, like, two, maybe three hours. His photos capture police

commandos taking up position. Some of the people who escape are

afraid the police might shoot them. A lot of people screaming,

their hands like that, "Don't kill us, don't kill us," and they are

just running away, and they tried to find some help, there was blood,

and they were completely shocked. Two-and-a-half hours after

the gunmen opened fire, the police Eventually,

the police secure Bataclan and start Slowly, they came in through

the door, they had the big bulletproof shields, the helmets,

big machine-guns, you know. And they came in, they told us,

they motioned for us to stay where we were,

they told us to move our hands, So we waved our hands and,

obviously, a lot of people who I thought were alive and pretending to

be dead weren't moving or anything. On the way out,

the floor was thick with blood, there were bodies everywhere, we had

to step over dead bodies, we had to Michael and Sara are now safely out,

or so they thought. We were just outside in the street,

just outside, once we got out, and we heard a massive explosion,

like everybody was really frightened because we thought there

was maybe another attack. Two

of the gunmen blow themselves up. The third gunman is shot dead

by the police. Among the 89 dead in the Bataclan

massacre, Nick Alexander, Hundreds are injured,

many critically. Responsibility is claimed

by the so-called Islamic State. They want us to become

an intolerant society, they want to polarise us because

the more we become polarised, The more we burn those bridges,

the more people are going to become The first to be named,

Omar Ismail Mostefei, He lived here in Cucuron,

15 miles south of Paris. A petty criminal,

radicalised five years ago, he was On any standpoint,

it's an intelligence failure, a massive intelligence failure,

but what I think is that there will be always failure

because these kind of attacks are, We could prevent a lot of them

but not all of them. In an open society like ours,

I think it's impossible. A key focus of the investigation

is now in Belgium. At least three of those involved

lived here and two cars used in On Saturday, Belgian police

arrested several suspects. Here we have obviously a network,

and probably a network They could have prevented them

if they had succeeded A network which stretched all

the way back to IS in Syria. In the aftermath of

the Stade de France attack, security Did the attacker hide amongst

the hundreds and thousands of refugees and migrants making

their way to Northern Europe? Authorities in Greece

and Serbia say the passport, possibly fake, had been used to

enter their countries in October. This freedom of movement across

Europe has raised security worries. The fact that borders

of France now are extended to some Greek islands, or Italian islands,

in the Mediterranean is a disaster. I mean, from a strictly security

point of view, it's much better It's not the first time this year

gunmen have brought terror to In January, brothers Cherif and Said

Kouachi forced their way into the offices of the satirical magazine,

Charlie Hebdo, and killed 12 people. This is the deep question here,

why France is more to get it than Because of what we are -

a secularist, very free, very liberal country, they just

cannot accept that, they hate that. The way that we defeat what happened

to us, the way we defeat Isis and terrorism is just to go

on exactly as we did before. As hard as it is, we go to the shop,

we go to another gig, we go and have a beer, we go and enjoy life and we

don't let them rob us of that. President Hollande called the Paris

attacks a declaration of war. Late yesterday, France struck back,

launching its largest yet bombing How much more blood are we going

to see on the streets of Europe? Three days on from the Paris

massacre, the city is in mourning. For those countries taking on IS,

and that includes Britain, the question is not

if there will be another terror John Sweeney reporting. President

Francois Hollande said France was committing to destroying the

so-called Islamic State after Friday's deadly attacks, but it is

clear they won't be able to do it alone. Belgium has moved centre

stage. The French believe the plot may have been hatched there. Our

reporter has spent the day in Brussels. What's been happening

there? I'm in Molenbeek, a district of Brussels nicknamed "jihadi

central" because of its links to this and other terror plots. It's

felt like a place under siege today. Police vans have lined the streets,

officers wearing flak jackets, carrying guns, wearing masks, they

have been everywhere. For one part of the day, an entire street was

cordoned off, large crowds gathered. I could hear explosives. It is here

that the man said to have masterminded the Paris attacks,

Abdelhamid Abaoud, was living before he left for Syria. Police named

three brothers who had been living here as suspects, too. One of them

is still on the run. Behind me is their home and this afternoon, one

of the brothers, Mohammed Abdeslam, came out of the house after being

released without charge. He came to the waiting press and said he didn't

know about the attacks, his brothers had been acting normally, and his

mother was devastated. And Belgium seems to be centre stage in all

this. Why is that? Well, proportionately, Belgium has had

more young men travel to Syria and Iraq to fight as jihadis than any

other European country. The authorities here say they do have a

problem. This afternoon, I spoke to a woman, the Deputy Mayor in

Molenbeek, with responsibility for social cohesion, and she said in

2010, she raised the alarm that there was a time bomb here. She

said, "In Molenbeek area, 40% of the youth are unemployed." She said that

was a problem. She said that she felt like the authorities had lost a

generation. I also spoke to another man, he works to deradicalise people

here. He said that Molenbeek has a history of jihadism. There are men

here who fought in Afghanistan, in Chechnya, and in Bosnia. He also

said Molenbeek is a place where criminals operate and that means you

can get guns. He also said, though, that scholars here, with Islamic

authority, in the mosques, were preaching anti-Isis messages, it

just was not getting through to everyone. Thank you very much. David

Cameron spent today meeting world leaders in Turkey, where the threat

from the Islamic State falls to the top of the agenda. He recognises the

group is now a threat. Have a listen. The horrific attacks in

Paris on Friday night, so soon after the Russian airline disaster, and

following on from the Ankara bombings and the attacks in Tunisia,

and indeed the attacks in Lebanon, they underline the threat we all

face, the threat to our values and to our way of life, and a threat

that we must defeat together. David Cameron speaking from Turkey. How

does this change what's happening in Britain? Let's speak to our

political editor. What does it change? Our political centre here in

London is closer to Paris than it is to British cities like Newcastle or

Glasgow. So for British politicians as well as the public, this feels

achingly near. There will be, we learned today, additional spies,

there will be beefed-up airport security, more armed police, even

guarding the England-France football friendly at Wembley tomorrow night.

Most of that was already in train before these Paris attacks. The

Government has been reshaping our Security Services in the face of

this evolving threat from the so-called Islamic State. So, shock

here, revulsion, absolutely, but a dramatic change in our policy? Not

yet. It's no secret, Laura, that David Cameron has wanted to join the

bombing of Isis in Syria, does this make it more likely? David Cameron

has been arguing that for months, that it is not logical for British

planes to be dropping bombs in Iraq but not in Syria, where IS have

their headquarters. The simple fact is, before this attack, he didn't

have the support of enough MPs in the House of Commons to be able to

get that plan through. Although there is real anger, and this has

changed the mood at Westminster, that has not changed the arithmetic

to get him the support he needs to back bombing. The Labour Leader,

Jeremy Corbyn, is seriously opposed to such a plan, as are the Liberal

Democrats and many of David Cameron's own party. So, that desire

that ministers still have is not going to become an effective plan

any time soon. Ministers still do want to do it, and they will keep

making the case, but even the scale of what's happened in the last 72

hours won't make that wish come true. Laura, thank you very much.

Well, let's talk to our security correspondent. It feels like -

everyone has used this word - a game changer, in the way Isis is

operating? That's right. What happened here in Paris is a

departure which is really worrying European intelligence and Security

Services. They have been worried about this threat from so-called IS

for some time now. They were worried about something perhaps smaller,

they were worried that IS was inspiring people perhaps in Britain

or France to carry out attacks, something less sophisticated than

what we saw in Paris. The amount of people involved, the fact that they

seem to have come in many cases from Syria, that they had serious

weaponry, the number of targets, all of that is worrying. Part also, of

another friend which is disturbing people, that IS seems to be carrying

out more activities out of its normal sphere of influence, so

bombs, yes, in neighbouring countries like Lebanon and Turkey,

but also think of that Russian airliner brought down over the

Sinai, most probably by an IS bomb. You put all that together, and we do

have a different threat environment and one which is certainly worrying

people. And what does that mean in terms of what we change as our

response, Gordon, from a security perspective? There is a lot of

concern with the Security Services in the UK. They have been flat out

at MI5 for some time. The kind of attack we saw in Paris is one that

will worry them. Of course, people from the UK as well have gone to

Syria, the fear is that they could be sent back to the UK for a similar

attack. It is harder to get hold of these weapons in the UK than in

France, that is one positive, but the threat level is one below

critical where an attack is thought to be imminent. It is still a very

serious threat environment in which the authorities are certainly

concerned about something similar to Paris happening. Thank you very

much. When they claimed responsibility for the attacks in

Paris, Islamic State called them the first of the storm. The killings

here were a first. IS hasn't hit a Western capital in this way before.

Like the rest of us, police and Security Services here in France and

around the world are struggling to work out what to make of them. Well,

tonight, France remains a nation in shock and also in mourning. It's

subdued but defiant. When daily life is under attack, simple things take

on ever greaters importance - eating out, going to a concert, laughing

with your friends - they become these little acts of resistance and

France's message to the terrorists seem clear - you can hurt us, you

can kill us, but we carry on, a spirit that was obvious even

immediately after the attacks as football fans filed out of the Stade

de France singing the La Marseillaise, the National Anthem.

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