Summary

  • A suspect has been charged with terrorism offences in Belgium for involvement in the Paris attacks

  • Crowds of people in Paris mark one week since the attacks with applause and dancing

  • French officials say the cousin of the presumed ringleader of the Paris attacks did not blow herself up in Wednesday's police raid in the Saint-Denis suburb

  • It has emerged that the suspected ringleader of the attacks had been able to travel from Syria to France undetected

  • French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said France will maintain controls along all its borders with fellow EU countries for as long as the imminent threat of attacks remains

  • All times GMT

  1. One minute's silence at Lille mosquepublished at 14:03

    AFP reporter Zoe Leroy tweets...

    One minute's silence in front of the mosque in Lille to honour the victims.

  2. Recap: what we know at this pointpublished at 13:58

    Today's key events so far

    Here is a recap on what has happened over the past 24 hours:

    • A third body has been recovered from the apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis raided by police after last Friday's attacks
    • Prosecutors have confirmed the identities of two of the three suspects who died in the seven-hour-long raid: Hasna Aitboulahcen and the 'ringleader' of the attacks, Abaaoud Abdelhamid.
    • Police continue to hunt a suspected accomplice in the attacks, Salah Abdeslam, but France's national police chief has said his whereabouts is unclear. The fugitive's brother Brahim was among seven suicide bombers in the attacks
    • France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says French police and gendarmes arrested 20 people overnight - 17 of whom are in detention, BBC Paris producer Clea Caulcutt reports. There were 182 police raids in which 76 weapons were seized and 10 drugs caches found
    • EU interior ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss tougher measures, including tightening the external borders of the passport-free Schengen area
    • Dozens of French artists and cultural figures have urged people to make a lot of "noise and light", by turning on music and lights, at 21:20 (20:20 GMT) on Friday to mark the exact time a week ago that the attacks began

    French police outside the 8 rue du Corbillon building in Saint-DenisImage source, EPA
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    French police outside the 8 rue du Corbillon building in Saint-Denis following the raid

  3. 'No record' Abaaoud passed through Greecepublished at 13:56

    A senior Greek security official has told AP there is no record of Abdelhamid Abaaoud passing through the country. 

    No Greek agency has a record of Abaaoud's presence, the unnamed official said.

    However, he said he could not rule out that Abaaoud may have entered the country on a fake passport.

  4. French special forces en route to Malipublished at 13:26

    The French Gendarmerie Nationale, a special branch of the French armed forces, has tweeted a picture of some of its personnel on their way to Mali to assist with the ongoing hostage crisis.

  5. French FM: Crisis unit set up to monitor Bamako attackpublished at 13:08 Greenwich Mean Time 20 November 2015

    Laurent FabiusImage source, AFP

    French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says a crisis unit has been set up to monitor the situation in Bamako, Mali, where hundreds of people have been taken hostage in a hotel.

    "So far as French are concerned, we are taking all the necessary steps in order to solve the crisis. A crisis unit has been installed in the embassy in Mali and in the Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Ministry) in Paris".

     You can follow the latest developments in Mali on our BBC Africa live page.

  6. Brother of attack organiser arrested in Morocco last monthpublished at 13:02
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    The younger brother of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who is believed to have orchestrated the attacks, was arrested last month in Morocco, reports say.

    Moroccan authorities arrested Yassine Abaaoud, after he arrived in his father's hometown of Agadir, Moroccan security sources said. He has been held in custody since then, but it is not clear if he has any connection to the Paris attacks.

  7. 20 arrested in 182 overnight police raids - French Interior Ministerpublished at 12:51
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    France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says French police and gendarmes arrested 20 people overnight - 17 of whom are in detention, BBC Paris producer Clea Caulcutt reports. There were 182 police raids in which 76 weapons were seized, and 10 drugs caches found. 

    Over the past five nights, French police have raided 793 places, which led to 107 arrests. 174 weapons were seized which included 18 "war weapons" and 164 persons have been placed under house arrest. Operations will continue, Mr Cazeneuve confirmed.

  8. Call for French mosques to condemn terrorism in Friday prayerspublished at 12:41

    Lyon mosqueImage source, Reuters
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    People gathered at a mosque in Lyon earlier this week to pray for Paris attack victims

    Religious leaders in French mosques are being invited to read texts condemning terrorism in their Friday prayers, French television station BFMTV, external reports.

    The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) has called on the 2,500 French mosques to "devote the Friday sermon to these tragic events that have deeply affected the national community", it said.

    The organisation said it would send imams a "solemn" guide to the sermon on Friday to reaffirm the "unambiguous and categorical rejection of all forms of violence and terrorism on the part of Muslims."

  9. France drafts UN Security Council Resolutionpublished at 12:39

    The French government has circulated a draft UN Security Council Resolution "condemning ISIL in the strongest possible terms", UK Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesperson says.

    It calls on member states to take action to defeat the terror threat, she said.

    She said discussions were ongoing, but "things are moving swiftly".

  10. German police question Algerian man 'who spoke of Paris violence'published at 12:18

    A police seal on entrance to refugee centre in ArnsbergImage source, AFP
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    A police seal on the entrance to a refugee centre in Arnsberg

    Police in western Germany are questioning an Algerian man who may have had links to the Paris suicide bombers.

    He is in custody in Arnsberg, near Dortmund in western Germany.

    He has been living in a refugee reception centre, where two Syrians reported that he had spoken about an act of violence coming to Paris – several days before the 13 November attacks.

    The case was reported by German media, including ARD and Sueddeutsche Zeitung news.

    The federal prosecutor’s office is investigating. The 39-year-old has told police he is innocent.

    A handwritten note was found behind the wardrobe in his room, saying: “Ali Baba 4, 13.11 Paris”.

    Reports say he acted aggressively towards police and he is banned from entering France.

  11. Hollande: Everything being done to free Mali hostagespublished at 12:14

    MaliImage source, AFP

    French President Francois Hollande says everything is being done to free hostages being held by gunmen at the Bamako Hotel, Reuters reports.

    French people are thought to be among about 170 people being held captive at the Radisson Hotel in Mali.

    Fifty French elite police troops are en route to the area, Mr Hollande said.  

    There are more than 1,000 French troops based in Mali.

    You can follow the latest developments in Mali on our BBC Africa live page.      

  12. Six released by Belgian police - federal prosecutorpublished at 11:59

    The office of the Belgian Federal Prosecutor issued the following brief statement this morning:

    “In the framework of the criminal investigation on Hadfi Bilal, six of the seven persons arrested have been released after interrogation. The detention of the seventh person has been provisionally extended for 24 hours.

    "In the framework of the criminal investigation on the Paris attacks, the detention of one person has been extended for 24 hours, the other one was released.

    "No further information shall be released about the identities of the persons involved.”

  13. Police formally identify body of Hasna Aitboulahcen, woman killed in St Denis raidpublished at 11:36
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    The Paris prosecutor has formally identified the woman who died during the raid in St Denis on Wednesday as Hasna Aitboulahcen, born on August 12, 1989.

    Three bodies have now been found in the flat. The identity of the third has not yet been announced.

  14. #SprayforParispublished at 11:27 Greenwich Mean Time 20 November 2015

    #SprayforParisImage source, Le Monde

    Le Monde newspaper has compiled a video montage of some of the street art springing up around France in the wake of the Paris attacks.

    Much of it has been posted online under the hashtag #SprayforParis.

    You can watch the full video here, external.

  15. French army recruitment inquiries spike after attacks - Le Mondepublished at 11:17

    A military spokesman says the number of people wanting to join the French army has tripled since the Paris attacks.

    Col. Eric de Lapresle told Le Monde newspaper, external that the number of people inquiring through the army website has gone from 500 to 1,500 a day since the 13 November attacks.

    French President Francois Hollande froze existing plans to reduce the size of the army following the killings.

  16. Paris 'may have triggered Mali hotel attack' - Chatham House analystpublished at 11:11

    MaliImage source, AFP

    Paul Melly, from the Africa Programme at Chatham House, has told the BBC that the attacks in Paris "may have triggered" events in Mali.

    Since France sent troops to aid the Malian government in conflict in the north of the country in 2013, "anything French will be seen as a target" by jihadists, he said.

    Gunmen have launched an attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in the centre of Mali's capital, Bamako, taking about 170 people hostage.

    "As far as the jihadists will see it, they will see it as an attack on France," Mr Melly said.

    "It's quite possible that events in France may have triggered this."

    You can follow the latest developments in Mali on our BBC Africa live page.    

  17. Twitter tributes: @ParisVictims posting tweets in memorypublished at 11:09

    Follow Twitter handle @ParisVictims for tweets paying tribute to each one of those who died on 13 November in Paris.

  18. 'French nationals among Mali hotel hostages' - Reuterspublished at 10:55

    Mali hotelImage source, AP

    Reuters reports that an unknown number of French nationals are among those caught up in the ongoing hostage situation at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali.

    Gunmen are believed to be holding 170 people hostage inside the building.

    Security forces and French troops have been deployed around the hotel and the area cordoned off, the BBC's Dakar correspondent Thomas Fessy says.

    You can follow the latest developments in Mali on our BBC Africa live page.  

  19. What do we know about the Paris attackers?published at 10:39

    Paris suspects

    A reminder here of who French officials believe to have carried out the assaults, claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. 

    They have named six people, and two other attackers who died in last Friday's violence have not yet been named.

    Click here for a brief profile of each named suspect grouped according to which attack they are accused of involvement in.

    Officials have also confirmed that a woman, thought to be Hasna Aitboulahcen, died in a police raid on an apartment in Saint Denis.  

  20. EU Commissioner: We need a shared European intelligence agencypublished at 10:25

    Dimitris AvramopoulosImage source, Reuters

    Arriving at emergency EU talks in Brussels, EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos tells reporters he will propose the setting up of a European intelligence agency.

    "I believe this is a moment to make one more step forward and put (forward) the basis for the creation of a European intelligence agency," he says.

    "We have to base our cooperation on trust and efficiency."