:00:00. > 3:59:59attack with weapons and explosives, but coming up it is Christian Fraser
:00:00. > :00:16.with Reporters. Hello, and welcome to this
:00:17. > :00:18.special edition of Reporters. I'm Christian Fraser,
:00:19. > :00:20.here in the Place de la Republique Following the shocking events last
:00:21. > :00:25.week in the French capital, we have a range of reports from
:00:26. > :00:28.our global network of correspondents as the country responds to
:00:29. > :00:31.the worst attacks on French soil Katya Adler reports on
:00:32. > :00:43.the night Paris came under siege. TRANSLATION: We all lay down,
:00:44. > :00:46.the whole room lay down. I was under other people
:00:47. > :00:51.and they kept shooting. Fears of a Muslim backlash,
:00:52. > :00:54.Gavin Hewitt investigates the impact People struggle to explain why young
:00:55. > :01:02.men would come down here and just They are the worst attacks on
:01:03. > :01:14.French soil since Last week's terror attacks ripped
:01:15. > :01:18.through the heart of Paris when its guard was down, as
:01:19. > :01:21.people enjoyed a Friday night out, President Hollande said the bombings
:01:22. > :01:25.were a declaration of war by the so-called Islamic State and has
:01:26. > :01:28.placed the city under a state of Katya Adler reports on the night
:01:29. > :01:34.that Paris came under attack. Her report does contain
:01:35. > :01:37.some distressing images. This is how a regular Friday night
:01:38. > :01:45.in Paris at a football match, a rock concert and round the corner
:01:46. > :01:52.at the local restaurant... It all started just after nine
:01:53. > :02:02.in the evening. Chanting crowds here at the France
:02:03. > :02:05.versus Germany friendly had no clue Then a second, and a third,
:02:06. > :02:15.blowing themselves up The French President, watching
:02:16. > :02:25.the game, was ushered away. Dazed, frightened fans lingered
:02:26. > :02:32.at first, too scared to leave. In the space of a few hours,
:02:33. > :02:35.scores of people were killed in central Paris in a series
:02:36. > :02:42.of coordinated attacks. This became a city of panic,
:02:43. > :02:45.as everyone wondered Suddenly, news spread that
:02:46. > :02:53.revellers at a rock concert here in the popular Bataclan
:02:54. > :02:58.Theatre had been taken hostage. Some concertgoers managed to
:02:59. > :03:05.escape onto the streets. This mobile phone footage
:03:06. > :03:13.shows their utter desperation. This girl tries to escape
:03:14. > :03:16.the bloodshed inside The ordeal ended when French forces
:03:17. > :03:23.stormed the building, but around 80 innocent
:03:24. > :03:28.people had already been killed. TRANSLATION: We were piled up
:03:29. > :03:32.on each other. We heard the shots, people
:03:33. > :03:35.screaming, as though tortured. TRANSLATION: I saw two young men
:03:36. > :03:46.no older than 25 with Kalashnikovs. There was one that kept
:03:47. > :03:51.gesturing for us to get down. We all lay down,
:03:52. > :03:54.the whole room lay down. I was under other people
:03:55. > :03:59.and they kept shooting. Meanwhile, not far away,
:04:00. > :04:02.associates of those gunmen continued the killing spree in a number
:04:03. > :04:07.of Parisian restaurants. Murdered while eating
:04:08. > :04:10.their evening meal. On a normal Friday night it is hard
:04:11. > :04:14.to find a hipper, happier, more buzzing pocket
:04:15. > :04:17.of Paris than these streets, filled The attackers did not
:04:18. > :04:23.target glitzy Paris. With these shootings
:04:24. > :04:26.and the first suicide bombings on French soil, they want to make
:04:27. > :04:32.everyone feel afraid and exposed. The former owner of Bell Equipe
:04:33. > :04:37.restaurant, where 18 people were Faced with an act of war,
:04:38. > :04:44.the country needs to take An act of war
:04:45. > :04:46.which has been committed by a terrorist organisation, IS,
:04:47. > :04:50.a jihadist army against France. An act of war,
:04:51. > :04:53.which has been planned, organised, prepared from the outside and with
:04:54. > :04:58.accomplices from the inside, which France has declared a state
:04:59. > :05:05.of emergency. Security is tight,
:05:06. > :05:08.with thousands of extra troops in airports, along French borders
:05:09. > :05:13.and across the country. Fear is everywhere in and
:05:14. > :05:15.around France, with the investigation pointing to
:05:16. > :05:20.links in Belgium and beyond. Iconic buildings the world over
:05:21. > :05:24.sent a clear message of solidarity as France mourns
:05:25. > :05:29.and prepares to bury its dead. So, what does this mean for the
:05:30. > :05:42.future of France and its relations Community leaders here
:05:43. > :05:45.in Paris have said they now fear The country is home to
:05:46. > :05:49.around five million Muslims. Many of them live in the suburbs
:05:50. > :05:51.of Paris. Gavin Hewitt has been speaking to
:05:52. > :05:54.some of them and finding out the impact
:05:55. > :05:57.of the attacks on French society. France has the largest Muslim
:05:58. > :06:00.population in Europe. But in the past year, there have
:06:01. > :06:09.been a series of attacks, like on the satirical magazine Charlie
:06:10. > :06:13.Hebdo, carried out by extremists. Some of them grew up
:06:14. > :06:16.in the vast estates on the anonymous Ten years ago,
:06:17. > :06:22.I watched the angry suburbs rebel. It prompted new efforts
:06:23. > :06:26.of integration, but always, like a new French law to ban
:06:27. > :06:35.the niqab, a face veil. Back then I met 26-year-old Anisa,
:06:36. > :06:38.outraged at a law The uncomfortable truth is that
:06:39. > :06:45.there are, today, willing recruits for a more radical, violent Islamist
:06:46. > :06:49.ideology and Muslims were reacting TRANSLATION: Muslims in France
:06:50. > :06:57.are disgusted by this. Do you think we like
:06:58. > :07:01.being pointed at? Everywhere we go,
:07:02. > :07:03.people give us a bad look. These days, when we go for jobs,
:07:04. > :07:07.they do not accept us. From conversations here, it is clear
:07:08. > :07:11.that some young people do feel isolated from French secular society
:07:12. > :07:15.and that some do have a sense of grievance about French foreign
:07:16. > :07:18.policy, particularly in the Middle East, but people struggle to explain
:07:19. > :07:23.why young men would come down here and just open fire
:07:24. > :07:42.at people having a meal. In this restaurant, Safer, a Muslim,
:07:43. > :07:45.helped save the lives of two TRANSLATION: After a spray of
:07:46. > :07:49.bullets, I ran and took the girls who were
:07:50. > :07:51.bleeding down into the basement. But why any of this took place,
:07:52. > :07:54.I have no idea. Earlier this year,
:07:55. > :07:55.President Hollande and Europe's leaders linked arms
:07:56. > :07:58.in defiance against violence, but it has proved easy for extremists to
:07:59. > :08:00.paint President Hollande's interventions in the Middle East
:08:01. > :08:02.as part of a crusader campaign. 2,000 French Muslims are thought
:08:03. > :08:05.to have joined the war in Syria. In France,
:08:06. > :08:07.there are deep political divisions. The far-right led by Marine Le Pen
:08:08. > :08:10.continues to poll strongly, and already, questions are being
:08:11. > :08:13.asked as to whether any of the suspects travelled with
:08:14. > :08:18.the recent groups of refugees. After the Charlie Hebdo killings,
:08:19. > :08:23.France came together, hoping unity We end tonight with some words
:08:24. > :08:42.from Antoine Leiris. He lost his wife at the
:08:43. > :08:44.Bataclan Theatre. He has written an open letter to
:08:45. > :08:46.his killers. He says he will never forget her
:08:47. > :08:49.but he and his little boy On Friday night you stole the life
:08:50. > :08:56.of an exceptional being, the love of my life, the mother of my son,
:08:57. > :09:02.but you won't have my hatred. I don't know who you are and I don't
:09:03. > :09:12.want to know - you are dead souls. If the god for which you kill
:09:13. > :09:14.so blindly made us in his own image, every bullet
:09:15. > :09:19.in the body of my wife will have Therefore I don't give you the gift
:09:20. > :09:31.of hating you. To respond to hatred with anger
:09:32. > :09:34.would be giving in to the same ignorance that made you
:09:35. > :09:41.what you are. You want me to be afraid,
:09:42. > :09:44.to view my fellow countrymen with mistrust, to sacrifice
:09:45. > :09:46.my freedom for security. She was just as beautiful as when
:09:47. > :09:58.she left on Friday night, just as beautiful as when I fell hopelessly
:09:59. > :10:02.in love over 12 years ago. Of course I'm devastated with grief,
:10:03. > :10:08.I will give you this small victory, I know she will join us every
:10:09. > :10:15.day and that we will find each other in a paradise of free souls
:10:16. > :10:21.to which you'll never have access. The moving words of Antoine Leiris,
:10:22. > :10:24.who probably sums up the thoughts and feelings of many who lost loved
:10:25. > :10:47.ones in last week's attacks. That is all for this week. From here
:10:48. > :10:49.in the plaster Republic, goodbye for now. Place de la Republique.