Some 10 fighter jets pummeled the
ISIS-held city of Raqqa in Syria with at least 20 bombs, according to the
French defence ministry.
Yesterday president Francois
Hollande vowed to crush the extremist group who massacred 129 people on Friday
night.
Less than 24 hours later, some 10
fighter jets pummeled the ISIS-held city of Raqqa with at least 20 bombs,
according to the French defence ministry.
The warplanes are seen launching
from an airbase in the United Arab Emirates in the above video.
They struck an Islamic State command
and control centre, a jihadi recruitment centre, a munitions depot and a
training camp, France government sources claim.
The full statement read: “The raid…
including 10 fighter jets, was launched simultaneously from the United Arab
Emirates and Jordan. Twenty bombs were dropped.”
Syrian activists today claimed a
museum, a stadium and a medical centre were hit by air strikes.
They also said as of yet, there are
no reports of any civilians being killed or injured.
President Hollande was told his
country is under attack while watching France take on Germany in a friendly at
the Stade de France.
His bodyguard is seen whispering
into Francois Hollande’s ear 15 minutes into watching France take on Germany.
Mr Hollande was immediately escorted
upstairs to the stadium control room where he was briefed to the full extent of
the situation before being scrambled away to a secure location.
Yesterday, he condemned the Paris
attacks as a ‘cowardly act of war carried out by ISIS barbarians’.
Addressing the nation just hours
after 129 people were killed, he said they had been organised and planned from
abroad.
Three days of national mourning will
take place, President Hollande confirmed.
In a televised address to the
nation, Mr Hollande said the attacks were “committed by a terrorist army, the
Islamic State group, a jihadist army, against France, against the values that
we defend everywhere in the world, against what we are: a free country that
means something to the whole planet”.
He added that France “will be
merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group”, and “will act by all
means anywhere, inside or outside the country”.
Mr Hollande said the French army and
security forces were mobilised “at the highest possible level” and insisted
France would “triumph over barbarity”.
“What we are defending is our
country, but more than that, it is our values,” he said.
In a night of carnage in the French
capital:
:: Police stormed the Bataclan
concert hall where hostages were being held, but attackers wearing suicide
belts blew themselves up, leaving 80 people feared dead. A witness said one of
the gunmen shouted “Allahu Akbar” and said “This is for Syria” – a possible
reference to France’s participation in air strikes against Islamic State
:: Two suicide attacks and a bombing
took place at the Stade de France stadium, where Mr Hollande was among
thousands of football fans watching the national side play a friendly against
Germany
:: Gunmen targeted bars and
restaurants in the 10th and 11th arrondissements of central Paris
:: As many as 18 people died when the
terrace of La Belle Equipe was sprayed with gunfire, while around 14 people
were killed at Le Carillon bar-cafe. There were also shootings at the nearby
Cambodian restaurant Le Petit Cambodge and the La Casa Nostra
pizzeria

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