Borders have been closed and a state of emergency is still in effect in the French Republic after multiple terrorist attacks throughout the city.
At the Bataclan theater alone, at least 118 people were reported massacred by gunmen armed with assault rifles and explosives.
A police union official says there were two suicide attacks and a bombing near the national stadium where France and Germany were playing a friendly match.
The official, Gregory Goupil of the Alliance Police Nationale, whose region includes the area of the stadium, said there were at least three dead in the attacks near the stadium, near two of the entrances and a McDonald’s restaurant.
He said the explosions went off simultaneously. He did not provide more details.
Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins says the death toll in attacks at six sites around the French capital could exceed 120.
Speaking near a popular music venue where scores of people were taken hostage, Molins said early Saturday that five attackers may have been killed.
Although no one has claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks, some terrorism experts say the Islamic State group is likely responsible.
Brian Michael Jenkins, a terrorism expert and senior adviser to the president of RAND Corp., said the extremist group is clearly the name at the top of everyone’s list.” He said this was because the tactic used — “multiple attackers in coordinated attacks at multiple locations” — echoed recommendations published in extremist group’s online magazine,
James Woolsey, a former director of the CIA in 1993-195 and now chancellor at the Institute of World Politics, also told the BBC he suspected the Islamic State because the coordinated nature of the attacks required government-style planning.
