:00:11. > :00:17.Now on BBC News, it's time for Reporters
:00:18. > :00:19.Hello, and welcome to this special edition of Reporters.
:00:20. > :00:22.I'm Christian Fraser, here in the Place de la Republique
:00:23. > :00:29.Following the shocking events last week in the French capital,
:00:30. > :00:32.we have a range of reports from our global network of correspondents
:00:33. > :00:35.as the country responds to the worst attacks on French soil
:00:36. > :00:44.Katya Adler reports on the night Paris came under siege.
:00:45. > :00:47.We all lay down, the whole room lay down.
:00:48. > :00:51.I was under other people and they kept shooting.
:00:52. > :00:56.We heard the shots, people screaming, as though tortured.
:00:57. > :01:00.Fears of a Muslim backlash, Gavin Hewitt investigates the impact
:01:01. > :01:09.People struggle to explain why young men would come down here and just
:01:10. > :01:18.The Belgian connection, Ian Pannell visits Molenbeek,
:01:19. > :01:20.the Brussels district where several of the attackers lived,
:01:21. > :01:24.If you were able to speak to Salah now, what would you say?
:01:25. > :01:30.I would ask him to surrender, to give an explanation, I would
:01:31. > :01:39.One jihadist in a million migrants, Gabriel Gatehouse traces
:01:40. > :01:45.the route of the Paris bomber who entered Europe as a Syrian refugee.
:01:46. > :01:48.Quentin Somerville asks why IS have brought their jihad from the
:01:49. > :01:52.The Islamic State is under pressure and that may mean a shift
:01:53. > :01:55.That increasingly, the group will focus its attacks
:01:56. > :01:59.outside of its home territory, here, in the Middle East.
:02:00. > :02:11.Jayne McCubbin joins English and French football fans as they
:02:12. > :02:25.They are the worst attacks on French soil since the end of the
:02:26. > :02:28.Last week's terror attacks ripped through the heart of Paris
:02:29. > :02:31.when its guard was down, as people enjoyed a Friday night
:02:32. > :02:41.President Hollande said the bombings were a declaration of war by
:02:42. > :02:44.the so-called Islamic State and has placed the city under a state of
:02:45. > :02:52.Katya Adler reports on the night that Paris came under attack.
:02:53. > :02:53.Her report does contain some distressing images.
:02:54. > :03:00.This is how a regular Friday night in Paris at a football match,
:03:01. > :03:03.a rock concert and round the corner at the local restaurant...
:03:04. > :03:13.It all started just after nine in the evening.
:03:14. > :03:18.Chanting crowds here at the France versus Germany friendly had no clue
:03:19. > :03:29.Then a second, and a third, blowing themselves up,
:03:30. > :03:33.The French President was watching the game
:03:34. > :03:47.Dazed, frightened fans lingered at first, too scared to leave.
:03:48. > :03:50.In the space of a few hours, scores of people were killed
:03:51. > :03:55.in central Paris in a series of coordinated attacks.
:03:56. > :03:58.This became a city of panic, as everyone wondered where
:03:59. > :04:09.Suddenly, news spread that revellers at a rock
:04:10. > :04:13.concert here in the popular Bataclan Theatre had been taken hostage.
:04:14. > :04:18.Some concertgoers managed to escape onto the streets.
:04:19. > :04:25.This mobile phone footage shows their utter desperation.
:04:26. > :04:28.This girl tries to escape the bloodshed insight
:04:29. > :04:38.The ordeal ended when French forces stormed the
:04:39. > :04:45.building, but around 80 innocent people had already been killed.
:04:46. > :04:47.TRANSLATION: We were piled up on each other.
:04:48. > :04:51.We heard the shots, people screaming, as though tortured.
:04:52. > :04:58.I saw two young men no older than 25 with Kalashnikovs.
:04:59. > :05:07.There was one that kept gesturing for us to lay down.
:05:08. > :05:10.We all lay down, the whole room lay down.
:05:11. > :05:12.I was under other people and they kept shooting.
:05:13. > :05:15.Meanwhile, not far away, associates of those gunmen continued
:05:16. > :05:20.the killing spree in a number of Parisian restaurants.
:05:21. > :05:25.Murdered while eating their evening meal on a normal
:05:26. > :05:28.Friday night - it is hard to find a hipper, happier, more buzzing pocket
:05:29. > :05:32.of Paris than these streets, filled with young locals and tourists.
:05:33. > :05:36.The attackers did not target glitzy Paris.
:05:37. > :05:38.With these shootings and the first suicide bombings
:05:39. > :05:45.on French soil, they want to make everyone feel afraid and exposed.
:05:46. > :05:48.The former owner of Bell Equipe restaurant, where 18 people were
:05:49. > :05:56."The people I sold this restaurant to are like family.
:05:57. > :05:59.Seven of them were killed in the attack.
:06:00. > :06:01.In this neighbourhood, all of us are like family.
:06:02. > :06:15.Faced with an act of war, the country needs to take
:06:16. > :06:20.An act of war which has been committed
:06:21. > :06:23.by a terrorist organisation, IS, a jihadist army against France.
:06:24. > :06:25.An act of war, which has been planned, organised,
:06:26. > :06:28.prepared from the outside and with accomplices from the inside, which
:06:29. > :06:38.France has declared a state of emergency.
:06:39. > :06:40.Security is tight, with thousands of extra troops
:06:41. > :06:42.in airports, along French borders and across the country.
:06:43. > :06:44.Fear is everywhere in and around France,
:06:45. > :06:51.with the investigation pointing to links in Belgium and beyond.
:06:52. > :06:55.Iconic buildings the world over sent a clear message
:06:56. > :06:57.of solidarity as France mourns and prepares to bury its dead.
:06:58. > :07:16.So, what does this mean for the future of France and its relations
:07:17. > :07:21.Community leaders here in Paris have said they
:07:22. > :07:23.now fear what they call a tsunami of hatred.
:07:24. > :07:26.The country is home to around five million Muslims, many of
:07:27. > :07:31.Gavin Hewitt has been speaking to some of them
:07:32. > :07:36.and finding out the impact of the attacks on French society.
:07:37. > :07:38.France has the largest Muslim population in Europe,
:07:39. > :07:42.But in the past year, there have been a series of attacks, like
:07:43. > :07:54.on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, carried out by extremists.
:07:55. > :07:56.Some of them grew up in the vast estates on the anonymous
:07:57. > :08:00.Ten years ago, I watched the angry suburbs rebel.
:08:01. > :08:02.It prompted new efforts of integration, but always,
:08:03. > :08:07.Like a new French law to ban the niqab, a face veil.
:08:08. > :08:10.Back then I met 26-year-old Anisa, outraged at
:08:11. > :08:19.The uncomfortable truth is that there are, today, willing recruits
:08:20. > :08:22.for a more radical, violent Islamist ideology and Muslims were reacting
:08:23. > :08:29.Muslims in France are disgusted by this, what else would you think?
:08:30. > :08:31.Do you think we like being pointed at?
:08:32. > :08:33.Everywhere we go, people give us a bad look.
:08:34. > :08:43.These days, when we go for jobs, they do not accept us.
:08:44. > :08:46.From conversations here, it is clear that some young people do feel
:08:47. > :08:48.isolated from French secular society and that some do have a sense
:08:49. > :08:51.of grievance about French foreign policy, particularly in the Middle
:08:52. > :08:54.East, but people struggle to explain why young men would come
:08:55. > :09:00.down here and just open fire at people having a meal.
:09:01. > :09:03.In this restaurant, Safer helped save the lives of two
:09:04. > :09:15.After a spray of bullets, I ran and took the girls who were
:09:16. > :09:19.But why any of this took place, I have no idea.
:09:20. > :09:21.Earlier this year, President Hollande and Europe's
:09:22. > :09:23.leaders linked arms in defiance against violence, but it
:09:24. > :09:25.has proved easy for extremists to paint President Hollande's
:09:26. > :09:34.interventions in the Middle East as part of a crusader campaign.
:09:35. > :09:37.2,000 French Muslims are thought to have joined the war in Syria.
:09:38. > :09:40.In France, there are deep political divisions.
:09:41. > :09:43.The far-right led by Marine Le Pen continues to pull strongly,
:09:44. > :09:46.and already, questions are being asked as to whether any
:09:47. > :09:53.of the suspects travelled with the recent groups of refugees.
:09:54. > :09:58.After the Charlie Hebdo killings, France came together, hoping unity
:09:59. > :10:01.would defeat the extremists, it did not work out that way.
:10:02. > :10:11.Well, the attacks highlighted the failures of the French intelligence
:10:12. > :10:13.services and it's prompted a huge international police operation to
:10:14. > :10:18.Part of that operation is focused on Belgium, in particular, the district
:10:19. > :10:22.of Molenbeek, in Brussels, called by some the jihadi capital of Europe.
:10:23. > :10:25.Several of the attackers have lived there, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud,
:10:26. > :10:30.Ian Pannell reports now on the Belgian connection
:10:31. > :10:39.This neighbourhood has become notorious for links to terrorism,
:10:40. > :10:42.home to at least three militants involved in the Paris attacks.
:10:43. > :10:44.But residents reclaimed the streets to cast
:10:45. > :10:53.A message of peace and solidarity with victims of terrorism.
:10:54. > :10:56.And overlooking the scene, high on a balcony, were relatives of
:10:57. > :11:08.One member of the Abdeslam family spoke exclusively to the BBC.
:11:09. > :11:10.He does not want to be identified because he is worried
:11:11. > :11:15.But he is a close relative of Brahim, who died in Paris,
:11:16. > :11:18.and his brother, Salah, who is a key suspect of the Paris
:11:19. > :11:29.If you were able to speak to Salah now, what would you say?
:11:30. > :11:33.I would ask him to surrender, to give an explanation, I would
:11:34. > :11:45.We really hope he surrenders before the police kill him
:11:46. > :11:52.Both brothers were friends with Abdelhamid Abaaoud,
:11:53. > :11:54.a leading Islamic State fighter, also from Belgium.
:11:55. > :11:58.He is accused of organising the Paris attacks.
:11:59. > :11:59.Back in Molenbeek, we met Farid, a neighbour
:12:00. > :12:02.and shopkeeper who knew the alleged ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
:12:03. > :12:07.the only change that was visible was that he started to grow a beard
:12:08. > :12:11.But I knew him as a hard-working shop owner until one
:12:12. > :12:22.Six days of mourning and prayers, but doubts and fear lingers
:12:23. > :12:25.about what may still come to pass, and questions persist
:12:26. > :12:27.about how to stop young men from places like Molenbeek, embracing
:12:28. > :12:41.The news that the attacker who blew himself up at the Stade de France
:12:42. > :12:44.entered Europe as a refugee last month has huge implications
:12:45. > :12:48.Ahmed Almohamed was identified by fingerprints
:12:49. > :12:51.and passport details, found at the scene, matching those who arrived
:12:52. > :13:01.Gabriel Gatehouse has been tracing his route from the Greek island
:13:02. > :13:09.We are heading to Medicine Island, a lump of scrub and ock
:13:10. > :13:17.But for those who dump their lifejackets here, this represents
:13:18. > :13:20.salvation, the entry point to Europe.
:13:21. > :13:23.They come in their thousands, fleeing violence at home.
:13:24. > :13:28.But now it seems one of them has brought the war with them.
:13:29. > :13:33.Well, it was on this rocky outcrop, we understand,
:13:34. > :13:37.that someone with a passport in the name of Ahmed Almohamed was
:13:38. > :13:45.The passport may have been a fake, but we do know that one of the Paris
:13:46. > :13:48.attackers gained entry to the EU posing as a Syrian refugee - that is
:13:49. > :13:52.an earthquake for a continent in the midst of a migration crisis and for
:13:53. > :14:03.the people who continue to arrive every day.
:14:04. > :14:10.Because of the heavy war in my country.
:14:11. > :14:25.We may not know the true identity of the man named as Ahmed Almohamed.
:14:26. > :14:27.The Coast Guard brought Ahmed Almohamed to Leros.
:14:28. > :14:31.There, passengers go through a process of registration,
:14:32. > :14:34.the Greek and EU officials take fingerprints and photographs and ask
:14:35. > :14:43.I have spoken to an official who has said that he
:14:44. > :14:48.remembers Ahmed Almohamed from his registration here.
:14:49. > :14:52.He has told me that he arrived on a boat with 70 or 80 other
:14:53. > :14:57.Syrians and immediately something did not feel quite right about him.
:14:58. > :15:00.He said that he kept himself to himself.
:15:01. > :15:03.He told me he would have highlighted his concerns to an intelligence
:15:04. > :15:06.More than 500,000 refugees and migrants have entered Europe
:15:07. > :15:17.Border forces across the continent are ill-equipped to conduct
:15:18. > :15:21.On a small island like Leros, they are simply not capable
:15:22. > :15:25.Many refugees in the last year have passed through Leros,
:15:26. > :15:35.We think all the time, maybe some of them, are not really refugees.
:15:36. > :15:38.The police have told us they were not authorised to give interviews
:15:39. > :15:43.but one officer spoke to us off camera.
:15:44. > :15:45.He said specially-trained experts at key border crossings can help
:15:46. > :15:57.It requires resources, he told me, but if we wanted a safe Europe,
:15:58. > :16:03.The Paris bomber appears to have travelled across Europe
:16:04. > :16:08.From Leros, a man with a passport in the name of Ahmed Almohamed takes
:16:09. > :16:12.Serbia registers the same name entering
:16:13. > :16:20.On 8 October he turns up in a refugee camp in Croatia
:16:21. > :16:22.before crossing into Hungary, believed to be heading for Austria.
:16:23. > :16:28.Until last Friday, when he detonated a suicide vest
:16:29. > :16:40.On Leros, the never-ending stream of migrants continues unabated.
:16:41. > :16:43.Ahmed Almohamed may have been only one jihadist in a million
:16:44. > :16:45.refugees, but this crisis is an issue that is
:16:46. > :16:48.testing the very bonds that hold Europe together, and that question
:16:49. > :17:02.So, why have Islamic State brought their jihad or holy war to the
:17:03. > :17:12.Some experts are saying it is because the group is losing
:17:13. > :17:14.the battle in Iraq and Syria, after months of attacks led
:17:15. > :17:17.by the United States and strongly supported, of course, by France.
:17:18. > :17:19.Quentin Somerville looks at the increasingly global threat
:17:20. > :17:23.Kurdish forces taking back the town of Sinjar and in Iraq, the so-called
:17:24. > :17:36.They fled from here but not before they had torn the town apart.
:17:37. > :17:39.We still do not know how many died under their year-long rule.
:17:40. > :17:42.But it is not the only place where they are in retreat.
:17:43. > :17:46.In Syria, the Kurds and others with US air power have taken back miles
:17:47. > :17:49.On its home ground, the Islamic State is faltering.
:17:50. > :17:51.But further afield, it is bringing pain and terror.
:17:52. > :17:53.In Beirut, they are burying their loved ones
:17:54. > :17:59.More than 40 people were killed in a busy shopping street on Thursday.
:18:00. > :18:12.Lebanon is in grief, it is one of the bloodiest attacks in years.
:18:13. > :18:15.And in Egypt too, fresh tactics and fresh horror from Islamic State
:18:16. > :18:17.bombers who may have brought down a Russian passenger plane.
:18:18. > :18:20.The United States and Russia stood side-by-side in condemning IS
:18:21. > :18:24.We are witnessing a kind of mediaeval and modern fascism
:18:25. > :18:29.It has no regard for life and it seeks to destroy and create
:18:30. > :18:32.chaos and disorder and fear, and the one thing we can say to those
:18:33. > :18:37.people is that what they do in this is stiffen our resolve, all of us.
:18:38. > :18:45.Here in Iraq, the Islamic state behaves like an
:18:46. > :18:48.army, it captures towns and villages and sends men onto the battlefield.
:18:49. > :18:55.But in Sinjar and over the border into Syria, it has tasted defeat.
:18:56. > :19:00.It is far from beaten but the Islamic State is under pressure and
:19:01. > :19:06.That increasingly, the group will focus it attacks outside of its home
:19:07. > :19:09.In Iraq and Syria, the offences against IS continue,
:19:10. > :19:14.The front lines in this war are now closer to home.
:19:15. > :19:19.Quentin Somerville, BBC News, Sinjar, in northern Iraq.
:19:20. > :19:22.Despite the shock and horror over what took place here in Paris,
:19:23. > :19:28.there were many moments this week of defiance and solidarity.
:19:29. > :19:31.The English and French football fans united as their national teams
:19:32. > :19:35.The stadium in London was filled with the sound of 70,000
:19:36. > :19:49.This was the welcome Wembley gave to France, a national stadium
:19:50. > :20:01.seen with new eyes, a sport seen with new significance.
:20:02. > :20:06.They had been given the option to pull out, but refused.
:20:07. > :20:09.Outside, fans told me time and again this night, these tickets, where
:20:10. > :20:17.We are fighting for freedom, you know?
:20:18. > :20:22.We saw his war medals, so, absolutely.
:20:23. > :20:25.We could have been them, we could have been in Paris, any one
:20:26. > :20:28.We are here because everyone needs to be here,
:20:29. > :20:32.they need to come out and show that nothing is going to stop us.
:20:33. > :20:33.There was high-security, yes, but fear?
:20:34. > :20:36."We have come from Paris", they shouted.
:20:37. > :20:40.Before they are joined by English fans,
:20:41. > :21:00.Alexia and her friends told me they would not be bowed
:21:01. > :21:03.by the terrorists, even though they had taken the life of their friend
:21:04. > :21:09.It is about standing altogether, not just France,
:21:10. > :21:12.but England as well, together, and, yeah, just show them that we want
:21:13. > :21:17.We cannot wait to sing La Marseillaise.
:21:18. > :21:29.Has a visiting team's anthem been sung
:21:30. > :21:36.The cousin of Lassana Diarra was also killed in the attacks,
:21:37. > :21:39.this was a moment to reflect, to take comfort in 70,000 voices united
:21:40. > :21:48.And after the anthem, and the applause...
:21:49. > :21:59.We thank you for showing your support.
:22:00. > :22:19.If we did not come, it would say that we are scared of terrorism.
:22:20. > :22:22.By coming, we show that we are brave.
:22:23. > :22:25.It was a night that sent out a clear message that life, this way
:22:26. > :22:39.We end tonight with some words from Antoine Leiris. He lost his wife at
:22:40. > :22:45.the Bataclan Theatre. This is his words.
:22:46. > :22:48.On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional being, the love
:22:49. > :22:51.of my life, the mother of my son, but you won't have my hatred.
:22:52. > :22:58.I don't know who you are and I don't want to know - you are dead souls.
:22:59. > :23:01.If this God for which you kill indiscriminately made
:23:02. > :23:05.us in his own image, every bullet in the body of my wife will have
:23:06. > :23:16.So, no, I don't give you the gift of hating you.
:23:17. > :23:20.You are asking for it but responding to hatred with anger would be giving
:23:21. > :23:24.in to the same ignorance that made you what you are.
:23:25. > :23:30.You want me to be afraid, to view my fellow countrymen with
:23:31. > :23:32.mistrust, to sacrifice my freedom for security.
:23:33. > :23:46.She was just as beautiful as when she left on Friday night, just as
:23:47. > :23:49.beautiful as when I fell hopelessly in love over 12 years ago.
:23:50. > :23:52.Of course I'm devastated with grief, I admit this small victory,
:23:53. > :24:04.I know she will accompany us every day and that we will find ourselves
:24:05. > :24:11.in this paradise of free souls to which you'll never have access.
:24:12. > :24:16.The moving words of Jerome Chauris who probably sums up the thoughts
:24:17. > :24:27.and feelings of many who lost loved ones in last week's attacks. That is
:24:28. > :24:49.all for this week's Reporters. Goodbye for now. -- Antoine Leiris.
:24:50. > :25:36.I saw two young men no older than 25 with Kalashnikovs.
:25:37. > :25:38.They can do this again and again, but we will be here, we will never
:25:39. > :26:02.give up.