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Francois Hollande's Attacks

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Francois Hollande, the French president, was attending the game but was safely evacuated. Over the next 30 minuets, two more explosions go off near the stadium. 3 Shortly after the first explosion next to the soccer stadium, a few miles south of the Stade de France, armed gunmen begin shooting at an intersection. 4 They proceed down the street, shooting into multiple restaurants, and a bar. Around 9:40pm, a suicide bomber detonates inside another restaurant, a few blocks from the gunmen in the street. 5 Around the same time, three gunmen enter the Bataclan concert hall. The U.S. band Eagles of Death Metal are preforming when the terrorists open fire on the crowd. At this site alone, 89 people are killed making it the location with the most casualties. …show more content…

7 Two by detonating their own vests and the other was shot by police. 8 French president Francois Hollande declares a state of emergency and ISIS claims responsibility for the attack the following day. 9 Five days after the terrorist attack, on November 18, French police raid an apartment building killing three. 10 The body of Abdelhamid Abaaoud is identified and believed to be the ringleader of the attacks. Officials suspect that Salah Abdeslam is involved in the Paris attacks and he remains on the run. 11 It is thought that Abdeslam may have been in charge of a forth attack that never took

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